My previous post about using Silex and AppServer-in-PHP similarly to ExpressJS generate quite a bit of interest. In the Hacker News thread there was a question about memory usage, and so I put the AppServer under siege. Memory usage stayed constant at: 13958 bergie 20 0 125m 10m 2136 S 1 0.6 0:00.28 php 13959 bergie 20 0 125m 10m...

buhrmi's Blog: How CoffeeScript makes jQuery more fun than everbuhrmi:

Real-time PHP site monitor using websockets and node.jsricharrdg:

CoffeeScript through the eyes of a Python developer

Node.js workshop starting. Poll of people participating… most write mainly PHP, Java, Python, Ruby. But everybody also writes JavaScript.

Alternative JS syntaxesAltJS provides an amazingly long list of transpilers that turn code written in other languages into JavaScript. So many different syntaxes that can target the universal runtime…

We had the PHP Content Repository workshop at Liip in Zurich earlier this week. During the time we also discussed some other code reuse, like utilizing parts of the Symfony2 framework in Midgard. The Liip guys mentioned Silex, a cool micro-framework written on top of Symfony2. It greatly resembles the ExpressJS framework that we already use in some of our...

Developers: The Future of JavaScript Is in Your Hands

contentEditable is the HTML5 feature that enables rich text editing on web pages. The original web browser that Tim Berners-Lee created was also a web editor, and contentEditable brings this possibility to all browsers.

Somehow I had missed this term being coined: The old "open vs. proprietary" debate is over and open won. As IT infrastructure moves to the cloud, openness is not just a priority for source code but for standards and APIs as well. Almost every vendor in the IT market now wants to position its products as "open." Vendors that don't...