Archive for March 30th, 2007

I’ve been busy lately creating a photo blog website. I promise more detais on that once it’s finished, but what I really want to mention is how I’ve begun building the site.

For this project, I decided the create the blogging software myself, rather than try and integrate with WordPress or use something premade. It seemed like a good excuse to become familiar with a new framework. I decided upon CakePHP, a framework usually described as a Ruby on Rails for the PHP language. While I don’t know if that description is accurate, I am pretty impressed with it so far.  Already, I can see why so many people like it. Really quick learning curve and it saves you a ton of time upfront. I don’t have any complaints yet, but of course, I’m still a long ways off from being finished with my project.

If you’re interested in this sorta thing, I really do suggest trying CakePHP for yourself.