Archive for April, 2008

Django and Python

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

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 - ...

Aptana Jaxer: MVC and other thoughts

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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 ...

Windows Vista privacy issues and suckage

Monday, April 21st, 2008

"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 ...

Working with Regular Expressions

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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 ...

JavaScript and MVC

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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 ...

Client-side validation with Zend_Form

Friday, April 4th, 2008

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 ...

A look at the Yahoo UI Library

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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!