Re: [DUG] FW: Web development

2011-06-07 Thread Paul A Norman
Useful browser share graphs published by arstechnica today afaik:-- Microsoft and Mozilla's continuing Chrome conundrum http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/may-browser-market-share-microsoft-and-mozillas-continuing-chrome-conundrum.ars Paul On 7 June 2011 14:00, Jolyon Smith

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-07 Thread Vik Vasudev
Hi All, After going through all the thread related to webdevelopment. I decided to give a try on ROR. So far it looks ok to me. Just wondering if anyone has used it to develop commercial application. I heard many saying ROR is fast and effective. I have no idea of PHP though Just wondering.

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-07 Thread Paul A Norman
CLI php is very powerful and very useful too. There are even times to shell out to it from Delphi or from other environments. There are existing php libraries (e.g. pdf handling etc etc etc ) that are just 'ready to go', where setting up in Delphi would be reinventing the wheel all too much. I

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-07 Thread Tim Perry
The whole of both our public admin sites are done ROR, made the change between 4 5 years ago. Tim Tim Perry Area Franchisee Christchurch South/Mid Canterbury/South Canterbury Nelson/Marlborough/West Coast M: +64 21 300 188 T: +64 3 547 4866 E: tim.pe...@open2view.com W:

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Peacocke
Yea, I have been involved in 2 large development programs (as a manager, not a programmer) in RoR, both quite fast and successful. Works very well in a SCRUM development environment. One person mentioned that RoR is hobbled in that there seems only one way to do things - that is the very idea

Re: [DUG] FW: Web development

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Levis
Interesting. My AWStats for May shows IE visitors at 38.2%, Firefox at 33.1%, Chrome 18.2%. That's with 179680 hits. IE has been steadily decreasing. In April it was 40%, March 41%. Ross. -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On

Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)

2011-06-07 Thread Stefan Mueller
Commercial: http://eco148-88394.innterhost.net/paxscript/ Interesting to see this one mentioned - the newer version of it is http://www.paxcompiler.com/ by the way and I am a happy user of that script engine in one of my projects (totally non-web related work). The developer of it (a Russian

Re: [DUG] Web development

2011-06-07 Thread Alister Christie
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