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Ingenuity through laziness
Posted on June 26th, 2008 No commentsOn a non-technical note, I thought I’d meander a bit about my programming philosiphy. In my opinion, there are different kinds of developers. There are those that have fallen into the trade through fate and must program to eat. Generally, those kinds of developers latch on to one environment and/or platform and ride it until it is no longer popular. These developers tend to always have a reference manual handy and probably copy and paste alot of their code. There are other developers who are tinkerers, they experiment with various languages for fun not really accomplishing anything other than the pursuit of knowledge (I started here). These developers are not an expert in anything but have general knowledge about everything. These are gross generalizations but the point i’m making is that there is another class of programmer which isn’t talked about much.
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Silk CMS Screenshots
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 8 commentsI felt the need to prove that this CMS I’ve been going on about really is not vapor ware but an actual functioning piece of software that is being deployed into production environments. I wasn’t interested in doing this earlier as the UI for the administrative section of the cms was not much to look [...]
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Silk CMS
Posted on June 13th, 2008 5 commentsIt probably sounds like vaporware but I assure you I’ve been working on a content management system built on the Zend Framework. I’ve settled on the name Silk CMS which I’m hoping to bribe one of our designers to make a logo for. I think the name lends itself to a nifty motto “Weave the web” with a friendly spider as its mascot. Hopefully this has not been done already as it seems very clever to me.
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Modular Zend Framework Skeleton (Part 3: Modules)
Posted on June 6th, 2008 5 commentsThis article has been superseded by an updated article with new examples
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Its taken a long time for me to back to this series as I’ve been swamped working on a large project. Fortunately the project heavily involved evolving my application skeleton which has actually graduated to a full blown Content Management System as I’d mentioned [...]


