Archive for December, 2010
First Rails, now Cake!
After my brief flirt with Ruby on Rails (see previous post), I decided to have a play with CakePHP too. A similar concept, implemented slightly differently, with (obviously) PHP doing the heavy lifting rather than Ruby. So what’s the skinny? According to book.cakephp.org, CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a [...]
Riding the Rails
I had a little work project to do recently, a simple online database-updater. Nothing fancy, two small related tables, fairly standard master/detail stuff. So just for a giggle (and ‘coz I’m a geek) I thought I’d take RoR for a test-drive. Woohoo what a ride! Within about 15 minutes, following an online tutorial, I’d installed [...]
