60 Days : Yii
Yes I'm still around! I am finally able to start working on the 60 days project I announced over 9 months ago. Yii will be the first framework up in the 60 days series. I would like to be able to give you specific reasons why I chose it but it just came down to picking one. My first choice was Kohana but they are on the verge of releasing a major update so I thought I might wait a bit.
I downloaded the framework and started the Yii blog tutorial, but I'm finding that while the concepts are pretty straight forward, the tutorial leaves out some important details so you have to do a lot of back and forth with the demo code to see what is missing.
I will be back in a couple days to update the details of the project.
60 Days : What is it?
60 Days is an idea I had while trying to decide what to do with the domains I have sitting around doing nothing — (well nothing but being a nagging reminder that I'll never have time for every idea that pops into my head, and that domain names cost money to keep).
The Goal
- Finish a real world site every 60 days using a different PHP framework.
- Post an ongoing review of the framework being used.
- Have fun.
60 Days will launch January 1st 2009. See you then.
I'm back
I've been away for a while taking care of "real life", I had been thinking maybe I'm not destined to blog. Yet, its time to renew several of my domains and I just can't part with this one nor can I see leaving it in its abandoned state. So I'm going to try something different -for me- and come up with an actual plan of action to get back on track. I'll be back in a couple days to let you all in on that plan.
What's in my IDE? : Xajax and Vanilla
A couple weeks ago I read a few posts where the authors discussed what they had accomplished that day. I thought I would do something similar and talk about what is in my IDE each week. Using the term IDE very loosely (for those of you who are super literal).
PHP Weekly Reader – April 27th 2008
Performance
Everybody is expecting lots of traffic. Thats the trend of last weeks posts anyway, there were at least 7 articles on the subject. It is one of my favorite topics, unfortunately I never have enough traffic to see any of them actually solve a problem for me.
PHP Weekly Reader – April 20th 2008
Judging by the number PHP of articles last week, spring is here. I can understand that since I find it extremely hard to focus on the computer screen when the weather is so beautiful, It almost hurt to write this article 
. I try to enjoy the spring while it lasts until the heat of summer arrives to drive me back inside, most summer days here will be over 100F well into the fall.
PHP Weekly Reader – April 13th 2008
Two posts last week reminded me of a daily question my dad would ask me at the end of the day. Travis Swicegood answers the question Whad did You do today? which inspired Ken Guest to do the same with What I've done recently. I always hated answering that question for some reason, I can tell you now that the correct answer to give my dad was not
PHP Weekly Reader – April 6th 2008
April fools came and went, I didn't get fooled. Thats sad, I love April fools day and this had to be the lamest year ever.
It was spring cleaning time this weekend so my computers were all unhooked and disassembled this weekend while everything was scrubbed clean. That spilled over into Monday which has now become Tuesday. That means everybody gets a break from my weekly reviews. Except this little tiny bit:
Subtle Digs
This caught my interest DHH on PHP. Maybe I'm just reading between the lines but "scales down" and "tackling that scope" isn't exactly praise. I really don't think that pointing to that blurb and saying “see, see.I told you PHP was good stuff.” is all that flattering to PHP. I wonder if anybody else thought it wasn't? Immediacy and frameworks points out some advantages that this immediacy gives. I think people are a little confused when they compare a language (PHP) with a framework ROR)
Shorted
I know this post got the short end of spring cleaning weekend. I promise next week will be uhhh… Better!
Lobbying for PHP — emPHPower me.
Lukas Smith recently posted an article talking about the need for an organization within the PHP community saying:
There are is fundamental concept that I see in this vision:
emPHPower is a mediator and catalyst that empowers members of the community to follow their own ideas
PHP Weekly Reader – March 30th 2008
I have been doing some research on build tools this last week, and was hoping some new articles would crop up that were related so I could accomplish two things at once, write my weekly review and learn about new tools, unfortunately that didn't happen.