In my recent training sessions on OOP I kept on stressing that it is more about the concept rather than the multitude of keywords like class, object or interface. Essentially, these concepts can be applied even in a procedural programming language, or a language that does not support OOP through constructs and keywords and enjoy its advantages. Tim Berners Lee pointed to the document Drupal Programming from an Object Oriented Perspective. [Continue]
Wyatt Barnett talks about Boxed Content Management Systems (CMS) and why he has not liked any of them yet. He defines a boxed CMS as: First, let me define “boxed CMS†for clarity’s sake. It is a fully-functional, feature-rich Content Management System in a box—which might be a zip file you downloaded off sourceforge. [Continue]
Lot of newspapers have started publishing news online in addition to their print versions. Especially after reports of plummeting revenues for print-only newspapers, online news has seen frantic activity. The customization and personalization that the online medium offers is tempting and usable for the news readers. [Continue]