Web Development

It's been a little while since I made any progress on this little project of mine, due to the downtime I suffered throughout December. I couldn't get access to my virtual machine server, so I wasn't able to restart the VM hosting my blog and my Subversion repositories; everything went down together.

As such, it's probably time for an update on where I've got to so far.

ASP.NET MVC is still only a beta, although it has only recently gained this status from the previous "Tech Preview" releases. The rumour is that it will RTM as part of .NET 4.0.

Following on from a recent comment discussion, I'm taking on a small project to evaluate a number of the major web development frameworks currently available. I've settled on a very simple blogging system as my sample project, with a common MySQL backend. In this first post of the series, I set out the terms of reference for the evaluation, including the (very basic) requirements for the sample application.

I've been doing a lot more JavaScript development at work over the last few months, working on a site that is AJAX'd up to the hilt. Everything's done with fancy jQuery effects and asynchronous calls back to the web server. The page in the browser literally never reloads.

My new favourite resource for development-related questions, StackOverflow.com, already provides a number of answers to this. However, I'm interested to hear from you, my small community of readers, what IDE you use for PHP development, and why you like it.