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.

The term Web 2.0 ‘birthed’ itself on us just 3 or so years ago, amid the proliferation (or acceptance) of social monster sites (you know, the ones we all use but don’t want to admit how much). Since then, the internet universe has adopted Web 2.0 design pinash, and technology  “response-ware” by taking the lead. Big, beautiful wide screen layouts and instant gratification functionality after clicking a link or button – great!

Now – I propose we do something with the term Web 2.0:

It doesn’t do the technology and design justice. It sounds as though the whole internet is a mundane release of desktop software, or a new cell phone revision. While understating it’s own importance, the term Web 2.0 it is actually not understated enough. What I mean is – Web 2.0 has simply upped the bar for creating the type of web technology we really wanted all along – and – it has exponentially increased the pace at which new innovations can take root.

We used to look at the web and be able to find something we didn’t like with every page we visited (at least I did). Space concerns, technical limitations, bandwidth concerns – they all had a stranglehold on things our other media counterparts had successfully resolved. Our print cousins’ technology doesn’t limit good visual communication. Our desktop software uncles don’t fret as much over dynamic intuitive functionality.

So again – Now that we are further along – can we just call it the WEB again? Or do we need another catch-phrase (a more encompassing one, a more market savvy one)…

Rich Internet Media – or RIM – may work.

Or maybe:

Web Technical Heaven – WTH (otherwise known as What the Heck)

Or possibly:

Sensational Heterogeneous Internet Technology – I won’t illustrate the acronym

Potentially:

World Evolution Base – or WEB (that’s a good one!)

So let’s get on with just calling it the Web, and make sure the team you have building yours is well versed in the scope of possibilities, and experienced in that scope. A team like jWeb Media. (That’s a Shameless Sales Plug – and yes – SSP to you acronym lovers…)