PHP 6 sneak peak

While most web hosts are still in the PHP 4 era, the PHP developers are already planning and working on PHP 6. Lets have a look at what's been keeping them busy.

Read full article at Jeroen van der Meer's website

Three State Solution

How often do we ignore these states as a web developer...

Extract from an excellent book "Getting Real" by 37Signals

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch09_Three_State_Solution.php

Useful plugins for RoR

Few useful plugins for RoR

FileColumn: A plugin by Sebastian Kanthak to handle file upload functionality. Contains view helpers. Allows to implement file upload easily.
To install:
$ ruby script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_file_column/plugins/file_column/trunk/

Client Side Validation: Validation Reflection plugin
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/client_side_validation

Streamlined:
Streamlined is a framework, on top of Rails, that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models. It started as a way to generate Administrative backends, but has become more general purpose over time.
http://www.streamlinedframework.org/

The future of web application

Where do you think the future of the web application lies in ??

a. Ruby On Rails
b. Flex
c. Java
e. Flash/ActionScript
f. PHP