Ruby Xerces, Xalan and XQilla
Posted by tom September 27th, 2007
Ruby is badly in need of proper XML extensions for Xerces, Xalan and XQilla. That way it is easy do XML parsing and processing and transformation, one step closer to acts_as_enterprisey.
I’ve seen a couple of people suggesting the use of SWIG for creating these kind of extensions. I managed to compile the lot (Xerces, Xalan and XQilla) on Mac OSX (10.5 I might add), but using SWIG is beyond me (for now).
ExtJS
Posted by tom September 21st, 2007
A fairly recent discovery of mine is ExtJS . ExtJS is a brilliant JavaScript framework, which allows you to create rich-GUI-like web-applications. It’s a very extensive framework, not making it easy to step in, but the functionality it gives more than makes up for it.