Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office:
“We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest
We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow…
So we got cracking and churned out a much upgraded web […]
Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]
Every year, White Wall Web has bi-annual conferences to discuss issues relevant and interesting to the WWW team.
Each end of year conference is a culmination of the year’s learnings and industry developments and takes place over two days.
This year WWW plans to do something a little different. “As we have grown in both size and knowledge, […]
In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid - $80).
We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about to […]
Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.
It also caters […]
Trends on the Web come and go at a frightening rate. This rate of change is due largely to the nature of freedom that exists around web ‘culture’. There is no one person or company who controls it (Google hasn’t got there yet…), and anybody is free to contribute anything to the online community. At […]
Introduction
First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 pattern […]
I am currently at BarCamp Cape Town - day two. It is rather small but there are some smart guys here and the discussion is very stimulating.
Currently Adrian Rossouw from Bryght did a useful presentation on Drupal. Everyone who has the required knowledge seems to agree with our hypothesis that Drupal is the best platform […]
I thought it quite interesting to find that an article about a WIKI detailing how to buy and sell on auction on Ebay called www.ebaywiki.com made headline news on IOL SA today.
Here at WWW we have recently been spending some significant time looking at various frameworks. We put together a list of several required criteria - here is a short list:
Strong separation of Data, Logic and Presentation (MVC)
OOP
Strong naming conventions and smart English recognition
Web 2.0 support […]
You are currently browsing the Web 2.0 & White Wall Wisdom weblog archives for the Web 2.0 category.
Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.
You are viewing a mobilized version of this site...
View original page here
Mowser
