Comments on: What Do You Want to Develop With in 2008?

By: Volo Mike

Volo Mike — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:59:38 +0000

I think the push is on now in 2008 to switch from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML, starting with XHTML Transitional, which kinda leaves HTML5 in doubt now. All we can hope for are HTML5 features in the next XHTML version.

I’ve been doing PHP5 for awhile now with class inheritance, etc, so that’s not me. Where I really need to grow, however, is in AJAX. All my clients want it. They call everything Javascript-related as AJAX, with no real understanding. So, I just play along. Sometimes, yes, what they describe is AJAX, but sometimes not. In particular the AJAX items they want to see are drag and drop, list resorting, edit field in place, treeview, login in place, and selects that update other selects.

I also see an occasional emphasis on the Zend Framework which I’ve yet to learn.

By: Sir Pavlow

Sir Pavlow — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:39:40 +0000

I am preparing a drupal theme, on the other side I need to chane my wordpress theme because it is coming from deziner folio, I need to graduate from my master program from the university (I hate), My favorite is Rubby and rail so I must be a professional Rubby coder. Other side I will finish my Mechanical Project by typing lost of assembly code (I hate to study for school)

Advice Use “Rapid PHP Editor” this is the best i have ever seen. not only php but also all type codes.

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:04:09 +0000

That’s exactly why I’m working on the skin, yes. Though bear in mind I’m not a designer (but I will have some sample stylesheets available that people can use for inspiration).

I really don’t want to talk too much more about it in this blog entry due to self promotion though (I don’t want to step on DevLounge’s toes).

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:44:09 +0000

Speaking of WordPress themes, is there anything better than that old ‘blank theme’ that was released years ago for producing them these days? Or is that precisely why you’re working on your framework?

By: Dan Schulz

Dan Schulz — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:16:28 +0000

I’m personally waiting for WordPress 2.4 and Joomla 1.5 to come out (for the latter, I mean for it to finally come out of Release Candidate Status). I’m not much of a framework person, but I’ve been (quietly) working on a WordPress theme framework that will cut down my development time of WordPress themes significantly (I gave one of my clients an advance copy of it and he said that his dev time was reduced by 67%).

I can’t wait to do the same thing with Joomla.

As for PHP, I can’t wait for hosting providers to finally get a flipping clue and upgrade to PHP 5, so I can finally upgrade my scripts and take advantage of what PHP has to offer.

By: garrett

garrett — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:14:16 +0000

Looking forward to using Habari, haven’t gotten round to using it yet

By: Ehab

Ehab — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Increase my knowledge of XHTML, CSS, PHP
Get some audience for my website
Go to London and study there
Be a regular @ the forums again

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:33:57 +0000

I’ve always been fond of WeBuilder. It’s not a full-blown IDE, but an editor like Crimson. However, it’s very much suited to (X)HTML/CSS development, with all sorts of shortcuts such as automatically turning a bunch of lines into an (un)ordered list, selecting tag blocks, selecting tag contents, etc.

Definitely worth checking out. It’s a comfortable blend of the buttons provided by WYSIWYG editors with pure code (there is no WYSIWYG).

By: Steven Hambleton

Steven Hambleton — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:53:14 +0000

I am looking forward to my continued web development with ExpressionEngine which has been nothing short of a revelation for me.

Hopefully version 2.0 will surface soon which promises a better feature set.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:39:49 +0000

I m looking forward to :

1.New Flash Developement Enironment
2.Good plugins for eclipse
3.Learn AJAX,Struts and Hibernate
4.Looking for Delphi-sci interface component installer for delphi and BCB.
5.Wordpress Update Version 3
6.Firefox 3 and IE 8
7. Apple new Operating System updates
8. More Cross-platform developement tools

9.As always more wishes and hopes and expectation…. etc

By: Alexander Langer

Alexander Langer — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:59:23 +0000

I started to work with Drupal in 2007 and I’m looking forward to to more and more projects using Drupal, ranging from corporate websites to social networks. I’m going to get myself some books about jQuery, which comes with Drupal and let’s you do so many cool things.

Another thing I’m gonna pick and ride to see what it’s all about is Ruby On Rails. With vesion 2.0 just out there should be some cool new books around soon.

I’m also using Crimson but for web development switched completely to E, which is kinda Windows version of Mac’s TextMate: http://www.e-texteditor.com/

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:58:30 +0000

I’m looking forward to new projects in general. I really need to get up to speed on PHP 5′s new features and leave 4 in the dust, as I’m sure the entire development community will do in 2008.

I don’t expect anything drastic to change with regards to Ajax usage, etc. I hope the community, as a whole, has gotten over their crush on 37signals by now and starts to build really good online applications.

As far as IDEs go, I’ve yet to find anything better than Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org), although I wish it had a better FTP plugin so I wouldn’t need anything more than it and PS and FF running when developing.

Looking forward to Firefox 3 and IE 8 too.