Archive for July, 2007

Developer Links for 08/07/2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer
A few Ruby/Rails related links (its been quiet on the PHP front), this first one really interested me to see how a experienced J2EE programmer would make the transition over […]

8Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Web Development vs Games Development

I spent 10+ years in the games industry and I have now been involved in web development for probably 5 years and I thought I would put down my thoughts on the core differences as I see them today.
New Technology
Right now the web industry has a staggering number of technologies that are constantly evolving. For […]

6Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

Top 10 Programmers of All Time - POLL

My recent post about the Top 10 Programmers of All Time showed that everyone has very strong opinions on the subject. My original list was based upon my programming background and was purely my own opinion and I did not expect everyone to agree with it. What I thought I would do this time round […]

3Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 33 comments | Continued

Return trip hell

I got home at 2am last night. I left the Zend conference at 9pm but found that there had been some form of fatality on the railway and that all trains had been cancelled and the station authorities were keeping tight lipped about what was going on and when we could expect trains to run […]

3Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Zend Framework 1.0.0 Production Release

The first production version of the Zend Framework has now been released. I have been now using it for over four months and as it has neared completion been more and more impressed by the work that everyone has put in. It is now without doubt the best class library for PHP 5. Although some […]

1Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

PHP Programming Contest Closed

I am a little late closing the contest tonight as I had to deal with a random wasp nest that I managed to run over while mowing my lawn. The wasps were not too happy with this invasion of their privacy and decided that this green buzzing device (my mower) was definitely to blame and […]

1Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued
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