Masonite, an Alternative to Django

  February 11, 2025       Web Development

Ruby on Rails, Laravel, and Django are the heavy-hitters in full-stack web development frameworks written in Ruby, PHP, and Python, respectively. Rails has been around since 2004, Laravel since 2011, and Django since 2005. I recently came across Masonite (released in 2018) and had to look into it.

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I Changed Themes

  February 7, 2025       Web Development

A simple (I thought) desire to add a Stack Overflow icon, and link to my account there, in this blog’s footer sent me looking for a different, but still uncomplicated theme. Soon, I was off in the weeks. And I said I wouldn’t…

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What is Clean Syntax?

  February 3, 2025       Web Development

Programmers talk about clean syntax and say this or that language or framework has such a property. I’ve noted that Ruby and Ruby on Rails have this thing, too. So what is it?

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Rails and Laravel

  February 2, 2025       Web Development

I’m finding that I really like the syntax of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails. Both are straightforward and ‘clean’. But I’ve been tinkering with Laravel, too, because it runs on more shared hosting services since it’s just good ol’ PHP.

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