Akelos is some new hotness for PHP

Ok, so I don’t usually blog about PHP….well in this blog you’ll see zero previous posts about PHP….but I’ve been keeping tabs on a new PHP MVC framework called Akelos. What is intriguing to me about Akelos is it’s a direct port of the Rails framework for PHP.
Now, for an avid Rails developer having to [...]

As my last Rails project was drawing to a close and deployment tasks were closing in, it became apparent I’d have my work cut out for me when deploying each box. This project was in no way adhering to “the Rails way” with regards to database architecture(or anything else for that matter…..a topic for another [...]

Lately I’ve had to endure working on a Rails project where the requirements dictate the use of Microsoft SQL Server as the choice database. In addition, we’ve had to test environments consisting of Microsoft Windows/Apache 2.2/Mongrel and Red Hat/Apache 2.2/Mongrel with various adapter(odbc, oledb) and tabular data stream translators. When testing several operating systems, adapters, [...]