We use Sproutcore to build out innovative interfaces delivered via the web.

 
jWeb – delivering Silicon Valley to St.Louis.

http://www.sproutcore.com/

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.

We have been evaluating this tool for clients that need rich functionality delivered over the internet.  Makes for excellent browser based interfaces.

jWeb – delivering Silicon Valley to St.Louis.

http://cappuccino.org/

http://code.google.com/p/google-js-test/

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is the next generation of Red Hat’s comprehensive suite of operating systems, designed for mission-critical enterprise computing and certified by top enterprise software and hardware vendors.

This release is available as a single kit on the following architectures:

• i386
• AMD64/Intel64
• System z
• IBM Power (64-bit)

In this release, Red Hat brings together improvements across the server, systems and the overall Red Hat open source experience.

CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible environment.

That’s it isnt it?  Lightening our load.  That is one reason why we innovate and refine how we do things.  Assembly lines changed the paradigm from a single individual craftsman building a widget (well I might add), to mass production of widgets.  This introduced specialization of labor where the best skills of an individual could be best exploited by having them focus on a tighter focus of what they were doing specifically.  Do this with enough people, and you have a recipe for greater production, ehem ….. and lower costs.

Interestingly enough, you can also begin to build higher quality products when you allow individuals to focus on the quality in their domain of interest.  Ok, you are saying, Google did not bring me to this article for a history lesson on why assembly lines work.  How does this relate to software development, and Symfony specifically?  Convention over Configuration, is a focus in our jWeb development efforts in the last 5 years.  Growing up with the internet over the last 15 years, we know what it takes to make something blossom on the internet, but the world has never seen an explosion of technology the likes that the internet has dawned on us, so staying abreast of the times is always on our minds.  Ruby on Rails, built by the guys up at 37 Signals, understand convention over configuration.  When they initially developed rails, David Heiniemeier Hansson made design decisions in rails to push developers down a certain path, that in his view would allow them to not always worry about how the wheel worked, but gave them a nice shiny wheel that worked out of the box.  By the way, one could tweak that wheel and upgrade to shiny 22″ rims if they wanted to, but you got the factory standard rims without asking (sorry to slip back to assembly metaphor again).   Symfony is one tool that jWeb engineer’s use to build enterprise grade web applications for our clients.  Symfony, much like Ruby on Rails, helps engineers to follow the mantra of convention over configuration.  It speeds things up.

Thats it, it lightens the load, and drives down cost.

jWeb is always looking for ways to pass cost savings along to our customers, and adopting best in class tools and techniques is just one way we do it.

This is an awesome library for building a client side RIA. Thanks to the appendTo() guys for building such a great tool.

This is an awesome jQuery plugin that allows us to build out full html pages with jQuery.  Take some data, shove that into one of these bad boys, and voila you have yourself a rendered html snippet!

OR

function steve($total) {

    $rank = 0;
    $f = 0;
    if ($total >= 5) {
        do {
            $f += (($rank + 1) * 5);
            if ($total < $f) {
                break;
            }
            $rank ++;
        } while ( $f < $total );
    }

    return $rank;
}

!! SPOILER !!

If you run these two functions with an array of values ranging from 1-1000 ten times and
take the average execution time here are the results:

Average Steve Time: 0.0060594081878662 seconds
Average Ben Time: 0.033687472343445 seconds

Results: Steve Wins!

If you are using an HTML table element to do any layout (I know who does that really?), placing the YUI Datatable with sortable column headers will break!  This issue has been patched in YUI 2.8.0, but for those of us who are not living on the edge, here is the fix!

Via YUI library

Thanks YUI!

While I have been using the debugger triggered through the web browsing environment for several years, today I figured out how to debug code executed from the Command Line Interface.

QUERY_STRING=”start_debug=1&debug_host=127.0.0.1&no_remote=1
&debug_port=10000&debug_stop=1″
./symfony project:create-orders –application=admin

When you combine Zend Studio, Zend Debugger, the Zend Framework, and the Symfony framework you have a combination that can’t be beat!

Thanks to the Zend knowledge base for the CLI tip!