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SproutCore gets huge buzz ahead of MobileMe launch

Since it was revealed that Apple's recently-announced .mac replacement, MobileMe, was partially built on something called SproutCore, the buzz around this hot new JavaScript framework has been growing. Although this is the first that many people will have heard about it, SproutCore has actually been around for a while, powering services like .mac's Mobile Galleries. Now it's getting so much attention that SproutCore.com has been unreachable all day, a week after the WWDC announcement.

So, why SproutCore? Daniel Eran Dilger, over at RoughlyDrafted, has a great rundown of things to love about this open source JavaScript framework: it will allow developers to build web apps that look more like desktop apps, function offline, and take advantage of modern browser features. Apple's using SproutCore to build a front end for WebDav and its own WebObjects, but other developments could easily add PHP, JSON or XML data to the mix, to name a few.

[via RoughlyDrafted]

Filed under: Developer, Internet, Text, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Open Source

Zend and Google mashup in PHP

ZendThe Zend PHP framework will now play nice with Google Data in a collaborative effort that puts the elves to shame. The component built by Google and Zend lives in the top level and not under Zend_service, which makes it more accessible and is mostly because the Gdata service is a protocol of its own, not merely a service wrapper. Google's component isn't the first to be included and follows the likes of Amazon, Yahoo, Flickr, and others to allow PHP developers to use data much easier through the Zend framework.

The new version of the Zend framework is out (version 0.60) as of last week, so go check it out when you get done going through your stocking one more time. The new framework has many bug fixes and features as you might expect, but that is why you can download it and have fun yourself.

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft

New Microsoft tool brings .net to VB6

VB6 and .netIf you have applications written in Visual Basic 6 (VB6) it would force you to rewrite the entire thing to bring it into Visual Basic.net. Have no fear, an add-in tool from Microsoft is here. Microsoft's Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 (free download) is an add-in for VB6 that will bring .net WinForms to your VB6 application. Microsoft's goal here was to help developers stuck between both worlds to develop code and focus on business needs in their VB6 apps while slowly moving the application to the new world of Visual Basic.net without rewriting everything from scratch. This allows you to include many newer ideas into your older apps easily, such as RSS, web services, and newer multimedia components.

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Windows, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, Unix

The Qcodo PHP framework

Anyone who has used Ruby on Rails or another similar scaffolding technology know how powerful it can be. Helping web developers cut down on coding time by using ActiveRecord technology to quickly wire-up databases is a great idea and makes sense for programmers. Qcodo is a PHP 5 open-source framework that aims to provide this same functionality for PHP developers. An article on the site suggests that code generation frameworks and the "meta-programming" done by Qcodo are different, and aims to explain why Qcodo does it better. There is some really great dialog here that details the advantages of meta-programming. Besides how great it is, I think meta-programming is just plain cool, in fact it is a word I wouldn't mind plastered on my chest, to help raise my lower techie ego a few notches. Then I can act all elitist and stuff. Anyway, my wardrobe of hacker shirts aside, I am considering integrating Qcodo into my regular repertoire of PHP constructs if it indeed proves to be what I am looking for, I just need to dig a little deeper first. It looks promising.


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