In a previous post, I talked about how to get the most out of the HTML_QuickForm PEAR library. I then wrote an improved version for ONLamp. A reader there asked how to implement a custom form renderer using my HTML_QuickerForm class.

Like any good CMS, Drupal is great at building new sites and maintaining existing ones, but when it comes to the largely mind numbing task of shoving in lots of existing static content, Drupal can seem agonizingly slow, as does any other mature CMS I have used in that situation. So, what are my options for trying to automate this task?

Recently, I had two clients with a need for customer relationship management (CRM) software, which up to that point, I had only had superficial experience with.

Its hard to think of many people more qualified to talk knowledgeably about Web frameworks than Matt Raible, particularly on the Java platform. The slides to his presentation, “Choosing a JVM Web Framework” contain some very interesting comparisons of the competing Java Web frameworks.