Posts Tagged ‘Dejan Levi’
Following the recent departure of one of its key collaborators, Francois Zaninotto, Symfony has taken a fair bit of stick and has seen some users abandon the web app framework in favour of alternatives such as Zend.
It seems Francois’ frustrations with the closed nature of Symfony development (he says 95% of decisions are made by one man - creator Fabien Potencier) finally outweighed his enjoyment of working on the project, prompting him to leave (more details can be found at Redo The Web, Francois’ blog).
Despite boasting some pretty high profile users (Yahoo Bookmarks and Askeet to name a couple) and thousands of smaller ones (see this Symfony list of some of the key sites built on the framework), the initiative is…
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Here at etonDIGITAL we’re pretty fond of Drupal and have been using Drupal for pro development for a few years now. With testing and work on version 7 now underway, here’s a few reasons to consider joining the growing community of Drupal users.
(N.B. For those new the software, Drupal is a free-to-download, open source content management system and modular framework. It is written in PHP and allows users to create and organise content, as well as manage a range of processes such as financial transactions. More info available at Drupal.org/about).
Anyway so here it is, why etonDIGITAL loves Drupal development…
1. Drupal’s growing community of support and developers. Here are some stats:
- Community of registered users totalling 350,000
- Downloaded over 1.4 million times in…
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Microsoft’s recent high-profile ad campaign featuring the American comic Jerry Seinfeld was not the success the company had hoped it would be. Responses were lukewarm at best, with most finding the ad to be slightly laboured and quite unfunny, like some awkward middle-aged attempt at quirky offbeat cool (read the original relevant blog post in our archive).
Anyway Valleywag has confirmed that as of tomorrow Microsoft will officially announce the termination of the working relationship with Jerry Seinfeld, stating that it had always planned only a brief working connection, and instead now focus on the new ad campaign, unveiled last week. Question is: is it any better than the old one? Or does the change of tact simply smack of panic and…
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Website flipping is a pretty simple concept: a ‘flipper’ buys a site at auction, works on it to improve traffic and boost search engine rankings, thereby raising the profile and value of the site which can then be sold on for a profit or retained as part of a portfolio.
With start-up costs minimal (internet connection and as little as £20 to buy a first site) and potential earnings often as high as six figures for a year’s worth of work, flipping is quickly becoming the obvious choice for SEO experts wanting to work independently and flexibly from anywhere in the world.
The recent successes of Youtube and Myspace have done much to raise the potential rewards for such work (they sold…
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When it comes to open source content management systems Wordpress is doing pretty well for itself. Last week saw the release of another update (to v2.6.2) which contains a few bug fixes and promises to resolve some recently discovered security loopholes. The update should go some way to silencing Wordpress’s detractors who criticise its fundamental architecture in relation to security. For the rest of us however the release marks yet another success for one of web 2.0’s biggest rising stars…
With such high profile users as Techcrunch, Reuters, The New York Times and CNN to name a few, Wordpress is doing extremely well in what is a fairly crowded field (see Wikipedia for a full list of current CMS options). With a…
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