Category Archives: Web2.0

UX and App Design at Google – Takeaways

By Ben | Published: February 3, 2010
Yesterday I was at an interesting UX knowledgeshare event where Simon Raess spoke about user experience and application design at Google. Google being an engineering company at heart they arguably only put in the recent years more weight on Ux and Design. Also nowadays Google employs only 200 designers. Being an engineer myself, I expected [...]
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Website deployments: Plain old Ant

By Ben | Published: October 21, 2009
In the last entry I was mentioning several solutions for managing web site deployments and packaging for php webapps. Since with PHP there is usually no build process already at development time this has often to be established especially for test & production – and yes there needs to be a build process if you [...]
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Long development cycles of compiled languages – the real killer

By Ben | Published: September 4, 2009
Ever asked yourself what are the reasons for the rise of scripting  languages like PHP, Ruby, Groovy for web development in the last couple of years? Let’s take the concrete case of Java. Common critiques of the language and the API’s, and the J2EE/JEE frameworks were/are in a loose historical order: performance – too slow: this [...]
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Internet-scale Java Web Applications

By ben | Published: July 22, 2009
I am currently working on 2 application architectures. One is a PHP Facebook app (IFrame) with Postgresql in the backend, the other is a Glassfish/Jersey/Toplink/PostgreSql stack. When reading the glowing web 2.0 tech stories in the news and sites like highscalability it seems like just about everyone requiring a “internet-scale” architecture is using MySQL, many are [...]
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