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Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source application development software

InfoWorld's Test Center picks the best open source development tools of 2011

By Doug Dineley, Peter Wayner, Rick Grehan | InfoWorld

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Bossies 2011: Application development
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CakePHP
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CoffeeScript
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Git
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Apache Hadoop
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Hudson and Jenkins
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jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch
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MongoDB
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Node.js
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Web2py
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More Bossie 2011 winners

CakePHP

Among the PHP Web frameworks to hit the InfoWorld test bench this year, CakePHP offered the best balance between quantity of features and ease of use. CakePHP applications require minimal configuration, and an excellent set of command-line tools dramatically reduce the time required to build an application. Define a database for your application, and CakePHP's Bake shell will create the model classes and method scaffolding for it -- and will even construct unit tests for the model, if you like. CakePHP offers shortcuts for code reuse, helpers to simplify the use of AJAX, and even recommendations for securing your website. It's clear why CakePHP is so popular and well regarded by its users.

The Bossies 2011 index:

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source applications

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source desktop and mobile software

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source application development software

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source data center and cloud software

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Tags: Application Development, Big Data, Development Tools, HTML5, NoSQL, JavaScript, PHP Web, Python, Web Development

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