Gary Teter on the WireHose-dev list laments the fact that WOBuilder won’t display the bindings for his WHHyperlink element. So, given that WOBuilder is EOL’d, he shows how to hack its WebObjectDefinitions.xml so that it does. Read more here.
An interesting post, and maybe of use to those trying to eke as much life as possible out of WOBuilder.
Daniel Jalkut at Red Sweater Software has taken over development of the blog editor MarsEdit (a tool that is instrumental in allowing me to maintain my prodigious post rate… Yeah, that was meant to be funny…) and has released a new version that fixes some bugs and incorporates Sparkle.
Automatic updates for everyone!
I’ve been looking to expand the technologies I have to offer my clients. For one, I’m looking for a lighter-weight web framework to supplement WebObjects (“enterprise class” is not always required and sometimes cheap hosting is). To this end I’ve been evaluating Rails and Django over the past several months. Rails currently has the edge (for a mishmash of arbitrary, subjective, and AJAX reasons) but Django comes very highly recommended.
This video with presentations by David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails) and Adrian Holovaty (Django) from a gathered at DePaul University in 2005 is proving very informative.
