Maintainable Software News

PHP Framework Released

2008-06-05T00:00:00Z

At Maintainable Software, we develop on multiple platforms and programming languages. We help our clients select technologies that will give them the best success and we regularly develop solutions in the Ruby, PHP, and Python programming languages.

At the urging of our customers working with PHP, we have released the Maintainable PHP Framework to open source under a BSD license. For those who want development style similar to Ruby on Rails but in a PHP environment, the framework ports many of the APIs of Rails faithfully.

Since releasing the framework a few days ago, other open source PHP projects are already starting to benefit from it. For example, PHPUnit 3.3.0 will include CSS selector assertions taken directly from the testing component of our framework.

New Videos of Our Applications

2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We pride ourselves on building great applications that our clients love to use. Seeing is believing, so we made short videos showing several of our recent applications. Contact us about your next project.

Join Us at OSCON 2008

2008-03-30T00:00:00Z

Maintainable Software will present two sessions for developers at OSCON 2008. Integration Testing PHP Applications will get PHP developers started with at the application level. Supervisor as a Platform will explore how application written for Supervisor can take advantage of it as a platform.

New Website for Supervisor

2008-02-24T00:00:00Z

We have unveiled a new website for Supervisor, the open source process management system written in Python. This new website joins Repoze and RubyOSA as our latest contribution to the open source community. Maintainable founder Mike Naberezny is also one of the core developers of the Supervisor software, which is used on many client servers managed by Maintainable Software.

Introducing Repoze

2008-01-03T00:00:00Z

Agendaless Consulting, leaders in the Zope and Plone communities, have started an ambitious project called Repoze to make Zope deployment possible on WSGI and bring Zope technologies to the wider audience of Python web developers. Maintainable has been privileged be involved early-on in this project and has designed its new logo and website.

Mike Naberezny at PyCon 2008

2007-12-21T00:00:00Z

Maintainable Software founder Mike Naberezny will be speaking about Supervisor at PyCon 2008 in Chicago, IL on March 17th.

The talk, Supervisor as a Platform, will be presented together with Chris McDonough of Agendaless Consulting. It will include an introduction to Supervisor and also showcase many of its more advanced features.

"Rails for PHP Developers" Now Available

2007-11-08T00:00:00Z

We are very proud to announce the immediate availability our new book, Rails for PHP Developers. Published by The Pragmatic Programmers, it can now be purchased as a Beta Book.

A "Beta Book" means that the book is near completion, and you can purchase it in its current form before the final version ships. You'll receive regular updates and the final version when it is completed.

The new Rails book embodies a year of effort by Maintainable engineers Derek DeVries and Mike Naberezny. It is based on our extensive experience working on both PHP and Ruby applications in our consulting practice.

We have also launched a support site for the book that will contain supplemental materials and other useful information.

Supervisor Extensions Released

2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

Maintainable Software is pleased to announce the release of two new extension packages for Supervisor, the process management system written in Python.

Supervisor Cache provides the ability to cache arbitrary data in the Supervisor instance as key/value pairs.

Supervisor Twiddler facilitates manipulation of Supervisor's configuration and state in ways that are not normally accessible at runtime.

Mike Naberezny at Zend/PHP Conference 2007

2007-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maintainable Software founder Mike Naberezny will be speaking again this year at the Zend/PHP Conference on October 8, 2007. The talk, Best Practices of PHP Development, will be a full-day tutorial session in cooperation with Sebastian Bergmann of PHPUnit and Matthew Weier-O'Phinney of Zend.

Mike Naberezny has spoken at ZendCon three times, being invited back each year since the inception of the conference in 2005. He is also a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board. Maintainable is committed to improving the quality of PHP development.

Maintainable Releases Routes for PHP

2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

On his blog, Mike Naberezny has announced a new collaboration between Maintainable Software and the Horde Project.

The new effort, Horde_Routes, is a full port of the Python project Routes to PHP 5. The new package provides classes for mapping URLs into the controllers and actions of an MVC system, inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Horde_Routes features route recognition and generation, named routes, PHP 5 E_STRICT code, and a comprehensive test suite. Maintainable is pleased to again contribute back to open source with this new addition to the Horde Project.

Supervisord 3.0a1 Released

2007-08-16T00:00:00Z

Agendaless Consulting has announced the first alpha release of Supervisord 3.0, a Python program for process management on UNIX-like systems.

The major feature in this new release is an event notification system designed by Mike Naberezny and Chris McDonough. It also includes an overhaul of the web interface styling by Derek DeVries and a host of other new features such as XML-RPC interface extensibility.

Maintainable was pleased to contribute funding, design, and development to this release as part of our ongoing commitment to supporting open source software.

New Book: Rails for PHP Developers

2007-06-10T00:00:00Z

Maintainable Software is proud to announce a new book, Rails for PHP Developers, is underway and will be published by The Pragmatic Programmers. The book has already been in development for many months.

The new book, authored by Maintainable founder Mike Naberezny and vice president Derek DeVries, will be the best way for PHP developers to quickly up come to speed with the Ruby language and Rails framework.

New Articles and RubyOSA Website

2007-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the articles section, Derek DeVries has a detailed tutorial that shows how to get the most out of Parallels Desktop for Rails development.

Mike Naberezny has a new article on Autotest from the ZenTest suite. It was even featured on Ryan Davis' blog, the author of Autotest.

Finally, RubyOSA gets a new website! The new website was developed by the Maintainable team working with Apple and provides a great new resource for this promising project.

Rails tips for Javascript and Logging

2007-02-25T00:00:00Z

Several new articles are now available in the Resources section. For Javascript, we show you how to start unit testing with the Unit.Test component of Scriptaculous and how to speed up your page loads using JSMin. We also have a new article describing the basics of Rails logging along with some tips for creating your own logs and observing logs on the Rails console.

Cookie Crumbs plugin for Ruby on Rails

2007-01-07T00:00:00Z

Derek DeVries has released Cookie Crumbs, a new plugin for Ruby on Rails. This plugin makes it easy to store more than one value in a single cookie, getting around the maximum limit of twenty cookies. It also includes a Javascript companion library for manipulating crumbs on the client side.