PUBLIC MARKS from mbertier with tags framework & clevermarks

Grails aims to bring the "coding by convention" paradigm to Groovy. It's an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. You can use Grails as a standalone development environment that hides all configuration details or integrate your Java business logic. Grails aims to make development as simple as possible and hence should appeal to a wide range of developers not just those from the Java community. Below you can find all you need to know (and more) about Grails.

I often use the Zend Framework from within my Symfony applications and until recently, I’ve been using the sfZendPlugin to import and autoload the library. You’ll notice that this plugin has recently been axed leaving some people confused as to how to use the library in their projects.

# New Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements # New action and view helpers for automating and facilitating AJAX requests and alternate response formats # Infocard, OpenID, and LDAP authentication adapters # Support for complex Lucene searches, including fuzzy, date-range, and wildcard queries # Support for Lucene 2.1 index file format # Partial, Placeholder, Action, and Header view helpers for advanced view composition and rendering # New Zend_Layout component for automating and facilitating site layouts # UTF-8 support for PDF documents # New Technorati, SlideShare, and Remember the Milk web services

Zend Framework in Action is a book that covers all you need to know to get started with the Zend Framework.

The Dojo community has done an amazing job this year, completely rewriting everything with a focus on performance, speed, ease of development, and amazing user experience.

Magento DataFlow is a framework for creating components that are used in data exchange processes. The system consists of 4 types of components; adapters, parsers, mappers, and validators.

There were just enough “this will be in an upcoming version” comments to make me believe that the project hasn’t really come very far despite it’s 1.0 tag. Judging by some of the questions people asked, I was obviously not the only one with that reaction.