Interesting site about Ruby: Ruby Inside and interesting last post with link to article about PHP website generation using Ruby. Why should we do this?
Entries from June 2006
June 17, 2006
pattern.language
patterns can be combined together in a form of pattern language which can be used in any field as a common language for particular design project. it can make the design process easier for all stakeholders because most of design patterns are quite intuitive and understandable.
most serious initiative towards documenting the pattern language is made [...]
June 16, 2006
pedagogical.patterns
can be defined as tested pedagogical methods. lots of them can be found on pedagogicalpatterns.org. in almost every e-learning system teachers have to know some administration and technology. by using pedagogical patterns (for example as interactive wizards) we can leave them only the task of teaching, the thing they should know the best… more on [...]
June 5, 2006
design.as.metaphor
Creating the design of a system (building a model) is like creating a new world i.e. we create the metaphor of the world.
Some interesting resources on that kind of approach to design :..
Metaphors & Schemas in Design, Metaphor and Metonymy in Object-Oriented Design Patterns.
June 2, 2006
Alexander.pattern
“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem in such a way that you could use this solution a million times over without doing it the same way twice” Christopher Alexander in 1977, a building architect, the inventor [...]
June 1, 2006
PHP5.soap
Best tutorial I found for PHP SOAP Extension.
And there I also found that current SOAP version doesn't support automatic WSDL generation in PHP5 (but NuSOAP and PEAR/SOAP do).
I tried to find some easy way to generate WSDL based on an existing SOAP-Server instance… In Java looks like it's no-problem, Axis (Apache Soap) has some mechanism [...]

