http://www.thomasknierim.com Software development with Java, Scala, and PHP Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:18:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you can gather from the title of this website, I create software in Java, Scala, and PHP. While Java and Scala compile to bytecode that runs on the same virtual machine, PHP is executed by a separate interpreter. The most efficient way to run PHP scripts is to integrate ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/140/web-development/serve-php-with-tomcat/ I've been using Linux on servers in various flavours since 1997, but I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I have just started using Ubuntu as a desktop OS. Despite some installation problems, the overall experience was very positive. I had made earlier attempts to switch over to Linux, but ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/136/open-source/ubuntu-newbie-tips/ Today, I came across an interesting article in the Forbes Magazine entitled "Computing 2010". The interesting part is that this article was written ten years ago. The author, Kip Crosby, imagined what computers would look like in 2010: optical circuits instead of silicon, with a CPU running at 100 GHz, ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/135/tech-trends/computing-2010/ Once upon a time as a Java newbie, I thought that Java Server Pages were great. Back then I had done web development in Perl and PHP and I was pleasantly surprised by the similarity of the development process. It's as simple as write and run. No bothersome compiler runs ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/133/java/jsp-nightmares/ Today I'd like to present another Ant script for Scala development. I promise it's going to be the last one, but I felt this mini series wouldn't be complete without it. This script is for developing a Lift application with Scala. I became interested in Lift in the first half ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/131/web-development/ant-script-for-scala-with-lift/ In my last blog entry I introduced an Ant script for building a stand-alone application with Scala. Today I present a script for building a Scala web application. Just as in the last example, you can download the script and the project skeleton layout for a “Hello World” application. The ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/130/web-development/ant-script-for-scala-webapp/ Although Scala is tool-agnostic, the Scala community seems to have a preference for the Apache Maven build tool. I am not quite sure why. Given that most people who learn Scala come from a Java background, what could be more natural than using Ant for Scala development? As a tried-and-true ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/129/scala/scala-with-ant/ Perhaps suggesting to eschew web frameworks for web application development is playing the devil's advocate. Perhaps it is even foolish. To renounce the productivity boost one gets with a properly designed framework does not sound like sensible advice. Only ignorant script kiddies entertain such ideas. Well, for the most part ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/126/web-development/frameworkless-architecture/ Is there such a thing as a Scala job market? According to my sporadic research during this month, not really. A quick keyword search for “Scala” on monster.com came up with 14 listings in the US, 1 listing in the UK, 4 in Germany and 1 in India. In addition, ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/123/scala/scala-job-market/ Earlier this week, I gave the latest version of the Zend Framework v-1.9.2 another test drive. I had previously dabbled in v-1.7.4 as well as a pre-1.0 incarnation of the framework. I will not repeat listing the whole breadth of its functionality here, since you can find this elsewhere on ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/120/php/zend-framework/