Django and Python

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I’ve thought it would be useful, both professionally and just for fun, to know a bit wider array of frameworks, libraries and other stuff related to web development, and last week it was Jaxer time. Now, I’ve got my hands on Django, a Python-based web framework. I’ve always liked Python – The syntax is refreshingly different, and some of its …

Aptana Jaxer: MVC and other thoughts

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This week I decided to take a look at Aptana Jaxer – A server-side JavaScript implementation, or “Ajax Server” like their site says. It’s a bit different take on a server-side language and requires some new ways to do things. What it basically lets you do, is completely throw away all “traditional” server-side languages, and write all your code in …

Windows Vista privacy issues and suckage

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“Windows Vista steals your information.” “Windows Vista does not work.” This is getting stupid and childish. I’ve seen many people complain how Vista is not usable, how it does not work, and now, how it steals all your information and gives it to Microsoft. Can anyone actually think these days? Can anyone actually remember how it was when Windows XP …

Working with Regular Expressions

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Regular Expressions – you either love them or hate them, and usually when you hate them, you just haven’t spent enough time trying to learn them! :) They are incredibly useful, but they can often be difficult to build and test. I have previously mentioned a great tool called RegexBuddy, which is a great help. However, being a Windows application, …

JavaScript and MVC

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For some reason, despite understanding a programming concept in one language can make it difficult to understand it in a different language, especially if it differs a lot from the one you know. JavaScript is a good example of this. From experience I can say that grasping the concepts of things like MVC in JS can be slightly difficult at …

Client-side validation with Zend_Form

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Zend_Form is Zend Framework’s brand new tool for simplifying form creation, parsing, validation and filtering. There’s one big thing I want from any kind of form generation tool: The ability to let me combine my server-side validators with JavaScript validation on the client, or other such features. And here’s the thing: Zend_Form is easily extendable to automatically generate JavaScript for …

A look at the Yahoo UI Library

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I have previously written about the Ext JS JavaScript library, and now it’s time to look at The Yahoo UI Library (YUI) – Ext began as an addon library for this one!