The NoSQL database movement is rapidly gaining ground in the enterprise application development.
NoSQL (Not Only SQL) is loosely defined as a set of database management system that follows a more non-relational approach to data representation and does not require fixed table schema. They are designed to be horizontally scalable and fault tolerant.
According to 10gen, creators of one of the most popular open source NoSQL databases, MongoDB:
I've been reading up a lot about responsive design and how it helps web designers. Web today is not only viewed on computer monitors, and so most of the clients want their websites to be mobile compatible, may it be iPhone, Android or tablet. These smart phones differ in screen resolutions, thus web designers should adapt and solve this issue. Responsive web designing is a solution to this problem.
Before we go to the actual topic, a short introduction first, I have been a Flash developer for more than 3 years, and I’ve mostly worked on Flash games, using Actionscript 2.0 then eventually moving to Actionscript 3.0. Having experience with Flash game development made it easier (for me) to do interactive and animation-heavy Flash projects, which made me believe that everything (obvious web stuff of course) can be done in Flash. I’d convinced myself to being just a Flash developer, since I thought Flash would be used in everything, until I encountered HTML5.
What comes to your mind when you hear about responsive designs? To some of us it may seem like a design that interacts with the user/visitor of the site or perhaps a design that responds or talks. (Do they literally talk? ).
"80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Start there."
Inspired by the book High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders, Richard Gonzales, one of our Senior Ruby on Rails developers, gave a lightning talk on 14 principles of building high performance web sites and how to implement them using Rails in one of our recent internal Rails Meetup.
Exist supported the Red Dot Ruby Conference for the second year in a row, and this time our Ruby on Rails developers, Nelvin Driz and Gillian Dugay represented us in the event last May 18-19.
Last time, I posted a blog on what's new in Drupal 7 for beginners, site builders and admins. Luckily this week, I had the opportunity to interview Jhef Vicedo, Drupal Philippines group site co-manager and a PHP programmer at Exist on the new features and updates of Drupal 7 for web developers. Jhef shared his insights on some of the improvements in the latest Drupal release.
It's been three months since the release of Drupal 7, the latest version of the widely popular open source content management system (CMS). Drupal 7 is believed to be more powerful and user-friendly.
With so many advancements and improvements in the new version "per role" (admin, developers, designers, content writers, etc) we will focus first on new features and improvements designed for better experience to beginners, site builders and admins.
“HTML5 offers one language (JavaScript), one data model (XML and DOM), and one set of layout rules (CSS) to bind text, audio, video, and graphics. The challenge of making something beautiful is still immense, but it's simpler to work with a unified standard.” - Peter Wayne, InfoWorld
