Recent Blog PostsThe web has been abuzz over the newly introduced Google Chrome Frame plugin in the last few days. Web developers have been rejoicing this new innovation in the campaign to kill Internet Explorer 6 (and 7), and Microsoft has predictably cried about it.
Now that I have finished a large project in Ruby on Rails, I think it’s time to document some of my thoughts on how it compares to CakePHP. I’m in the unique position of having built the exact same application twice, once in CakePHP and now once in Rails. My findings were that Rails is superior in most aspects, but a lot of this has to do with the superiority of the Ruby programming language over PHP.
The new version of Jimmy Cuadra Web Services using Ruby on Rails is now live. This is the culmination of a massive amount of work over the past many weeks and this past week and a half in particular. I’m very happy and proud to present this new version, which includes the following visible changes from the previous version:
Lately I have been seeing a lot of excitement circulating on Twitter and various blogs about recent developments with HTML and the recently-released Firefox 3.5 which adds new support for HTML 5 features. The questions I had that no one seemed to be touching on were: Why does it matter if Firefox supports some of HTML 5 unless all browsers (read: Internet Explorer) do? Why does it matter if it only has partial support? You can’t start moving your sites to HTML 5 if only some of its features are supported. If you move to an HTML 5 doctype, won’t browsers that don’t fully support it break when viewing your document? If you keep an HTML 4 or XHTML 1 doctype but introduce the more commonly supported HTML 5 elements into your document, doesn’t that result in invalid markup, since you’re mixing elements from different specifications?
The more I’ve learned about CakePHP, the more I’ve become interested in getting acquainted with its better known cousin, Ruby on Rails. In the past few months I’ve been making my way through two different books from the Pragmatic Bookshelf: Rails for PHP Developers and Agile Web Development with Rails.