Jul 31 2008
Star Trek Meets Monty Python
Star Trek Meets Monty Python
Wow, someone definitely had a LOT of time on their hands! Thanks for the effort though. It was certainly enjoyable 
Technorati Tags: monty python, star trek, mashup
Jul 08 2008
Web Frameworks Rock
After doing maintenance on a few PHP projects, I’ve come to the conclusion that I really need to use frameworks for medium to big projects. After looking at a few frameworks in a few different languages, I’ve run across a pretty cool website at sucks-rocks.com.
I plugged in a number of popular web languages and frameworks just to get an idea of what people are saying about them. The results are pretty interesting. First take a look at some language comparisons. Then, look at some framework comparisons. And finally, I thought I’d check out some Javascript libraries.
Conclusion: With Web 2.0 design, you can’t go wrong by picking a good framework and throwing in some ajax.
Jul 01 2008
Liquidweb Rocks
I just need to give some props to Liquidweb. I have a cPanel VPS account there. I have been impressed with their “Heroic Support”. Recently though, they went above and beyond.
I’ve been having PHP mid career crisis of sorts and been looking at other languages and frameworks. Django and Python have caught my eye. I started developing an application, but I wanted to first see if I could deploy it to my server before I got too far into it.
I strugged for 3 or 4 days trying. I spent a lot on time on IRC and they guys there were quite helpful, but they couldn’t figure out why my deployment was not working either. Finally, after hitting a brick wall, I submitted a support ticket. Because it was 3 party software I wasn’t expecting much.
I was blown away by the level of service I got. The first person had never heard of Django, but she read the documentation on how to install it and pointed me to the right files to edit. Later she passed me on to someone else who was more familiar with Django. In all I got responses from 4 different people who worked on this issue. They got it up and running and explained what they did. Kudos to Liquidweb.
