frameworks

Comparing Rails vs. PHP to a non-technical audience

I recently had an interview at a small company that wants to greatly increase its web presence, including re-writing their Flash homepage and opening an e-commerce site. If given the position, I would be the sole developer on staff. I've been working with Rails for a number of years, and haven't looked at PHP in quite some time. However...

PHP Framework with full jQuery integration?

i'm tired of reinventing the wheel on PHP and loving jQuery to death so which framework fits my needs? ...

Data Dictionary or ORM?

I am in the processes of replacing the framework for a fairly complex business web application. Our application runs on a LAMP platform and the new framework will be an extension of CodeIgniter. In my research for framework design I decided to look into ORM, I have never done ORM before and I wanted to know if it would be valuable for ...

A Framework for MVC and NHibernate

I was currently looking at S#arp Architecture. It seems to be still too young to develop anything on top of it. Is there any alternative to S#arp that include support for NHibernate (fluent a plus), testing and MVC? ...

How to integrate PHPUnit to a custom framework

I'd like to integrate PHPUnit to my framework. By this, I mean that I have to do some initializing in the beginning, like setting up autoloads, before I'd run the tests. I'd like to use the cli test runner, and if I understand correctly, I have to make a class, that has a static function suite(), which returns an instance of PHPUnit_Fra...

Are there any worthy CSLA alternatives available?

My company is interested in porting a large business application to .NET. We plan on developing a desktop version and a silverlight version. I mostly researched the CSLA framework (got rocky's book, halfway through already) and found it a bit over-engineered, the data layer side didn't seem so polished either. Is there any other framewo...

jumping into javascript?

Duplicate: Which JavaScript framework is best for web development? JavaScript Debugger others... and still more... I want to learn javascript but first it would be nice to know the best tools out there. Like what's the best frame work, debugger, method for debugging? thanks in advance. ...

AJAX support in smart phones

How mature is AJAX support for mobile phones? Are there mobile versions of some famous AJAX frameworks? I would live even with a limited support for some ajax lib. ...

Is Horde an acceptable framework for PHP groupware development?

I'm working on this project and the customer wants it to integrate with a groupware package including bulk email, calendars, and task lists. He has heard about Horde and Horde GroupWare and is interested in using that. Do you have any developer related experience with Horde? If so, then what were your findings? Did you find it to be sta...

Learning Objective C without a Mac

I do not have a Mac, or an iPhone. However, the concept of taking C and making it more dynamic towards the idea of smalltalk, python or ruby is really attractive to me. I'd love to start on objective C. Is objective C just a syntax superset of C or is it really like C. As in, can it be compiled with gcc etc..? I do most of my program...

Java Web Application File Loader w/ change detection

Is there any tool/framework available to load and autommatically reload an arbitrary file from within a java web application? (I'd like to avoid writing it myself - I do know how to write it) ...

Installing ASP.Net Framework 3.5 on Server (From 2.0)

Hi, I want to upgrade the Windows 2003 x86 server which is running ASP.NET 2.0, to support ASP.NET 3.5 Which file / files do I need? Do I need to install 3.0 first, then 3.5, then 3.5 SP1, or will the full download of 3.5 SP1 (dotnetfx35.exe 3.5.30729.1, 231 MB) do everything? Also, I believe I have to install the following at the e...

How can I tell what a website was written in?

I'm looking for a series of 'tells' that indicate what a website was written in and/or what web framework is being used and maybe what web server software is used. Obvious examples would be the page extensions, http headers, page features, like VIEWSTATE, cookie names and such. Obviously, these tells could be faked or suppressed so I'm n...

MVC in a Google App Engine Java world

I'm coming to Java from C# & ASP.NET MVC, I'd love to find an equivalent in the Java world that I could use on the Google App Engine. I've already started to have a play with FreeMarker and even made the first steps towards writing a very simple framework. Ideally I wouldn't have to do all the hard work though, someone must have done thi...

What are the best characteristics of a datalayer framework for WPF/MVVM applications?

I am creating a WPF/MVVM framework which generates the code for the model classes. I'm planning to have for each database-table/web-service (e.g. "Customers") two model classes: a singular model class (e.g. "Customer") and a plural model class (e.g. "Customers") The singular model class has all of its properties (FirstName, LastNam...

When should I use a javascript framework library?

I'm writing a small web that just makes some animation and shows some information as a homepage and a list of links. All that is going to be generated dynamically in the client side. So everything is going to be javascript and XML. Recently I've been reading some questions in SO about javascript, and most of the situations involved the ...

How to disable/readonly some checkboxes from a MultiCheckbox?

I have a Zend_Form_Element_Multicheckbox and I want to put some of its elements in a readonly state, how do I do that? $colId = new Zend_Form_Element_MultiCheckbox('colId'); $colId->setLabel('Col ID') ->setMultiOptions(array_flip(array('sadda', 'asss')); ...

Can CSS frameworks (ie: 960gs or Blueprintcss) be used without margins?

I don't see the point of using either http://960.gs or http://blueprintcss.org if they enforce margins other than for pretty magazine layouts/marketing-esq brochures. Is there a way I can use these to meet certain design requirements such as a navbar that can actually touch/wrap-around to the header? Any input to use these frameworks wit...

Framework/Suggestions for Small, simple web apps

I am looking create small simple applications that are fun social toys. They won't be complicated, usually a one-type CRUD type deal. For example, Generate a random sentence (from source/algorithm) Store this in a database Present this sentence to the user Present a text box to allow them to enter their own sentence. record sentence...

How to build a java web application

Hi, Soon I will have to start a web project for a company, and I now need to choose a technology to build the app. I'm thinking about using Java, hence I'd like to find a framework that will help me building the app (I'm used to PHP framework such as CakePHP & CodeIgniter). What I don't understand is that it seems to exist a lot of fra...