Rick Grehan
Contributing Editor
Rick Grehan is a longtime InfoWorld reviewer and a professional software developer who currently works for Oracle.
Fabulous PHP frameworks: Qcodo, Lithium, Seagull, and Yii
Alternative PHP frameworks offer such advantages as code generation, prebuilt modules, and application performance
InfoWorld review: Fabulous PHP frameworks
Zend Framework, Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, and other PHP frameworks conquer Web development with extensive features, powerful tools, and superior ease
InfoWorld preview: WebMatrix ramps up ASP.Net development
Microsoft combines all-in-one installation, a gallery of templates, and coding shortcuts to speed dev and deployment of Windows-based websites
InfoWorld review: Nine fine Python development tools
A wide-ranging flock of Python IDEs offer great options for Windows scripting, GUI applications, Web frameworks, multilanguage development, and more.
InfoWorld review: Tools for rapid Web development
With WYSIWYG prototyping environments and preconfigured graphical components, rapid Web development tools can help you build applications faster -- but with less flexibility
Debugging PHP Web apps is hard to do
Don't get caught without these handy tools for straightening out your HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL code
InfoWorld review: Eight PHP power tools
Eclipse PDT, NetBeans, NuSphere PhpED, and Zend Studio lead a capable field of IDEs for Web developers
First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud
Amazon's Relational Database Service provides an easy escalator into the cloud for existing MySQL applications
Open source Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing made easy
Thank heaven for Hive, a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables
Cloud control systems tame the ether
3tera, Enomaly, Kaavo, and RightScale take myriad and mixed approaches to managing virtual servers in the sky
First look: Amazon brings MapReduce to the Elastic Cloud
Based on Hadoop, MapReduce equips users with potent distributed data-processing tools
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
Whether your focus is security, storage, music, or religion, there's a flavor of Linux that fits the bill
Test Center review: Amazon eases cloud control
With its intuitive interface, the highly capable AWS Management Console is an ideal for users new to cloud computing
Test Center review: Specialty Linuxes to the rescue
Six sweet distributions that can boot from a pen drive, run in a sliver of RAM, rejuvenate an old system, or recover data from a dead PC
Hooking your apps into Amazon Web Services
Unsure how to get started with AWS? Some sample code will illustrate its relative simplicity
Inside Amazon Web Services
From storage to payment, the king of clouds is dangling an array of low-cost services. We take a close look at the tools for IT and developers.
Product review: .Net comes to WebSphere Portal
Mainsoft lets .Net developers build WebSphere portlets, and it allows WebSphere to talk to SharePoint, to boot
Product review: LISA iTKO 4 brings high quality to Web service testing QA
Virtualization feature simulates interaction with Web services that don't yet exist
Test Center preview: Inside Google's mobile future
The Open Handset Alliance's Android SDK for creating mobile applications throws a few semantic curves at Java developers, but for the most part, they will feel at home; just be prepared for some rough terrain, and be sure to bring...