Entries from January 2006 ↓
January 21st, 2006 — .Net and Mono, Recommended Reading
SharpDevelop is an open source IDE for .Net. It allows you to create desktop and web applications in C# and VB.Net. The Beta of SharpDevelop 2 is now available and it support .Net 2.0 too.
The interface is very similar to Visual Studio, and I recommend you to try out SharpDevelop 2.0. If you want to be sure before you try, take this quick feature tour!
Another thing:
APress, a technical books publisher, has put up a few books for free download. They are PDF books and you can easily download them.
The one that looked most interesting to me was “Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop”. This book takes a peek inside how SharpDevelop works. The book is a bit advanced level, but a great resource to learn things! Published in 2004, it is still relevant. And the best thing I like about this book is the coding advice it provides!
January 21st, 2006 — OpenCerti
I am thinking about what tool to use for the OpenCerti website.
Are there any Drupal hackers who want to contribute to OpenCerti? We would be glad to have Drupal on the site - run surveys with it or have documentation in it.
Are you a PHP developer who wants to learn new things and contribute to OpenCerti at the same time? Then we can use Symfony and build things from ground up.
We look forward to hear from you!
January 21st, 2006 — PHP
Symfony is a great PHP5 framework for web applications. After Ruby on Rails shook the web developers, a lot of web frameworks with AJAX support started appearing. There are a few in PHP as well.
The feature list says:
* simple templating and helpers
* cache management
* smart URLs
* scaffolding
* multilinguism and I18N support
* object model and MVC separation
* Ajax support
* enterprise ready
The Symfony project website is also a place where they documented the development of Askeet - a full blown live web app done in 24 days with Symfony.
If you are a PHP developer, try it out!
January 18th, 2006 — OpenCerti
Which one do you like? Here are some logos that Ashok Suthar created for OpenCerti. Voting starts now!
January 18th, 2006 — Recommended Reading, Writing and Speaking
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