Supersonic Feet

This would've been so useful to me when I switched from PHP to Ruby a couple of years ago: the PHP documentation with the Ruby equivalent described for each function. Found via RubyFlow.

Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD Baby project to switch back to PHP. It's a very sensible article looking at the fact that Rails ...

As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an online shopping site called UK Shopability but when I joined the company last year they had already started getting a ...

I'm really getting into Ruby and Rails now - I don't think I've touched a PHP script for over a week now (and this for someone who's been writing PHP apps for six years!). Obviously my job is as a PHP developer, but I've been fortunate enough to get my current project going in Rails rather ...

We're pitching to an existing client at the moment to develop a website for a new venture he's starting and so I got handed a draft proposal to check over. As it's not a high-value project, the idea put forward was to use existing shopping cart software we have a developer licence for and pull out ...