FreeDOM programming

What is FreeDOM? (Free Document Object Model) is a web development technique used for creating event driven web applications. FreeDOM is designed to overcome the limitations of stateless HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmissions. In the article, Adam Smith compares FreeDOM with currently working web 2.0 concepts to show the benefits of switching to this architecture.

Want to build a web app? Xampp's your friend

I forgot to mention this, but about two years back, when I started researching on my dissertation, I came across this open-source distribution suite called Xampp. It is really Dumb-Programmer-101 (I should know). It's all very simple, just download and extract. It will setup everything nicely for you.

And by everything... it offers distribution for the various OSes.
For example, the distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin (I am also quite fond of this, as it is a useful web-based DBMS for MySQL), Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

You like to eat Cake?

Hi folks,

Now there is a relatively new development framework for PHP (you know, like prototype is for javascript?) . It makes developing a web application so much easier, esp because it uses a lot of OO patterns, like MVC etc.

Have a slice of CakePHP