Category Archives: PHP

Flex, Flash, and Ruby hourly billing rates

By Alastair | February 2, 2008

HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]

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Akelos PHP framework apes Rails

By Alastair | December 6, 2007

Monkey see monkey do. I’m usually wary of PHP frameworks that are ‘inspired’ by Ruby on Rails but the Akelos folks have done a really good job with their port. They even have a screencast narrated by guy who’s funny accent you can’t quite place
Every now and then I get a project that [...]

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Instant CRUD with PHP and Flex Builder 3

By Alastair | July 13, 2007

Looking for some Rails like scaffolding for Flex and PHP? Try clicking the purple eclipse logo at the top left of Flex Builder 3.
You’ll be greeted with a database connection wizard that helps you set up a REST CRUD service, it even builds a mini-app for managing records.
There’s a (well hidden) screen-cast on Adobe labs.
Pretty [...]

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WebORB for PHP 2.0 released

By Alastair | July 13, 2007

The Midnight Coders have released A new version of WebORB for PHP. There’s a bunch of new features which equal, if not leap-frog, thos in AMFPHP. Their post runs through the top ten new features, but my favorites are #6 client/server class mapping
Client/server class mapping configuration. Since this is one of the most common tasks [...]

Also posted in Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex | 2 Comments