Archive for the ‘Programming / Dev’ Category

• How to install Trac on Windows

  Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

  At Prefix, we are constantly trying to improve the way in which we develop and maintain our software. This has meant introducing a few new processes and systems to help with the software development lifecycle. In the early days, we didn’t do much in the way of version control or stick to any real development [...]

• Firefox now bigger than IE6 according to W3Schools!

  Thursday, October 25th, 2007

  The latest browser stats @ W3Schools shows Mozilla’s Firefox has nudged ahead of Internet Explorer 6 - 35.4% versus 34.9%!
  This really is amazing. It’s a nod to open source software as a whole. It is also a sign that people, when given choice, will migrate to better alternatives. It shows that monopolies, even [...]

• ZendCon 2007 to elevate PHP even further!

  Monday, October 8th, 2007

  ZendCon - the international conference for PHP developers - starts this week. We were hoping to send members of our team but couldn’t quite get our act together in time. It is so exciting to see the PHP language taking such a clear stage globally as a platform for serious coding. With the release of [...]

• Firefox plugins make webdev easier

  Friday, September 28th, 2007

  Web browsers are used for far more than just viewing websites these days. With the extensions/plugins API’s now available for the leading browsers (Firefox/IE7), the developer community has built some great plugins that we use daily at Prefix Technologies.
  Two we use extensively are the Web developer Toolbar and the Firebug extension.
  You can find out more/download [...]

• Software Freedom day in Pretoria

  Monday, September 17th, 2007

  I went along to Software Freedom Day this past weekend - where a little expo/event was held in Pretoria by the Dept of Science & Technology. There were a lot of school-kids around and of course the geek-league of SA’s Linux community. There were also some interesting panel discussions and presentations.
  I unfortunately missed the keynote [...]

• Microsoft Bid for ‘Open’ XML Format Gets a Big Thumbs-Down

  Thursday, September 6th, 2007

  This is important because XML is the main way us programmers get our applications to talk to each other today. Our Preditor publishing platform uses XML extensively to talk to the Adobe product suite for example, so that DTP departments can import and export Preditor content when it comes to layout of the print magazines.
  Microsoft [...]

• If PHP/mySQL runs Wikipedia - it certainly should be trusted by business!

  Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

  Not many people know that Wikipedia is run on the same software/hardware stack that Prefix Technologies uses to deploy our own products. The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, mySQL & PHP) is trusted by organisations all over the world. South African business seems quite attached to the Microsoft operating system environment, and unwilling to look outside [...]