Like his JavaScript language CoffeeScript, Jeremy Ashkenas’s Backbone JS has quickly become one of the leading choices for building scalable, well-designed web applications using JavaScript. It’s by no means the only player in town, but I’ll list 5 reasons why… Continue Reading
Scripting tech is hotter than ever these days. Thanks to innovative projects like Jquery, there sure seem to be a wast array of tools, libraries and frameworks flying around the front and back end develeopment spaces. Here are five projects… Continue Reading
I should learn to keep my big mouth shut. I recently said on the OOTP forums that the FOSP was on indefinite hold and I had no plans to revisit in the immediate future. Then a few people on the… Continue Reading
Happy spring! Well it’s been almost a year since version 0.2 of the OOWP was released so I think it’s time to give a little update on the state of the project. Despite both an extended summer break and… Continue Reading
It’s kind of annoying to me that Dojo SelectBoxes do not have the ability to select all items with a single function call. It’s kind of strange. I can understand their connection to data stores to keep the data, but… Continue Reading
PHP 5.4 has been percolating the web now for a few months and I wanted to dive in deep and understand what the big changes are for my longtime favorite coding language. I do like java a lot and Ruby… Continue Reading
Version 0.2 is a incremental feature and bug fix release of the FOSP. It is released for download to the OOTP forums on Friday May 25, 2012. Version 0.2 includes the following changes: I’m very happy to have the News… Continue Reading
We begin creating a module using the Module Builder tool, adding permissions and a custom database setting entry via a Bonfire Migration and creating a page in the Settings context by editing a settings controller and view. Now comes the… Continue Reading
If you’re like me, you do most of your development work on a local desktop environment. For me, that means running the latest version of VertrigoServ on a Windows 7 desktop using a copy of PHPStorm and the Git command… Continue Reading
Building modules on the ootp open web platform is a fast way to get right to building the type of tool you want to create. For the third part of the oowp developer tutorials, I am going to demonstrate this… Continue Reading