John's blog

Typo3 is our most-implemented CMS option due to its power and versatility combined with the cost savings of its open-source license. Typo3 4.2 was released yesterday, a welcome upgrade with several updates to the editing interface. We are already using it on a couple of recent sites, one of which is already live. Most of the updates are in the editing interface to improve ease of use. The highlights are a significant rework of the interface to use more ajax techniques and a general improvement of layout.

Last year Amazon shook up the web development world with EC2, the first Elastic Computing Cloud. Later the addition of S3 for storage and SimpleDB for data fleshed out their platform as a real alternative for web application development. Now Google has launched AppEngine, a virtualized application hosting system that combines some of the features of all the Amazon services for a new take on the hosted application development.

When the Eclipse PDT project went 1.0 I started experimenting with using it as a PHP development environment and I think I'm ready to commit to it as my standard development environment.