Archive for May, 2010
Very long list of PHP frameworks
May 13th
Here’s a quick little rant before I post the link to the long list of frameworks…
Just a few months ago I was looking at frameworks. I had thrown myself in the fire of a PHP project and it’s really something that I’d never done from start to finish.
I thought using a framework would help me out a bit since this was to be my first “start to finish” PHP app. After looking at a few frameworks on really stuck out to me.
I’d been a bit familiar with MVC type frameworks from using Model-Glue in ColdFusion development and after using it in a couple of different projects I generally liked using an MVC framework.
So today, I’m just reading through me RSS reader and I found this blog post which was linked… this is a list of 79 PHP frameworks. I certainly would not have looked at all the options on that list….. and I still wouldn’t consider going through so many.
To link that long list with the few paragraphs above…. for that PHP project that I mention… well I had settled on number 7 on that list. Kohana.
Finally, click here to see the list of 79 PHP frameworks.
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Topsy – new social media search engine
May 7th
I’m not sure just how long Topsy has been out there, but I just found it today and thought it was pretty cool.
I found it because of a track back I got on an article I wrote on another blog. I looked up what it was about and started playing around.
Topsy is a new search engine that is really heavy on social media. What people are writing about on their blogs, what they’re tweeting about on Twitter….etc.
Looks like a handy tool research tool for anyone wanting to dig into what’s being said about a topic.
Very cool.
Check it out.
YouTube monetization goes up a notch
May 6th
YouTube’s partner program starts to offer a new service to it’s partners. Partners will be able to charge rental fees for videos.
I’ve always thought YouTube is amazing. Endless videos and pretty much on any subject you can think of. I’ve spent countless hours searching for all kinds of stuff. From live music clips to “how to’s”… to old Muppet show clips. It’s certainly had an entertainment as well as educational value for me and my daughter (she loves those old Muppet show clips).
A great service like YouTube is a hit in part because it’s made streaming video accessible to anyone with an internet connection for free… and has also offered the ability to have anyone (well pretty much) submit their videos online… easily embed them into their own sites…. get discovered (Justin Beiber??)… and has allow thousands, maybe millions of us to waste a ton of time.
But a service like this that takes a huge amount of bandwidth and server space probably can’t continue totally free forever. Mind you, there will still be countless videos offered for free on YouTube. I think that “free” access is what makes so many online services so powerful and successful.
Monetizing certain videos might just work. I haven’t read much about this yet, but something like this could be quite beneficial to the small independent film makers as well as other more established studios.
Found a little info here on Mashable … enjoy!
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Finding some help debugging Drupal (and PHP)
May 5th
I’m very thankful for the internet. Actually, if it weren’t for the very existence of the internet… I suppose I wouldn’t encounter half the challenges and problems that I do…. in code of course.
I come from a Web development background and for the better part of the last 9 years I’ve spent countless hours reading through ColdFusion code (mostly). In 2010 so far, almost every job I’ve done has involved PHP in some form or another. If it was adding a feature to a previously coded site.. or building a site from scratch (it was direct requirements!)…. this year it’s been PHP.
I’ve been learning in 2010. On many levels actually.
So here I am reading through drupal code, learning how things are organized and where methods are calling other methods… still getting familiar with reading the code. I programmed a plugin for a Drupal module and everything was going well. Then after adding some processing to a form with file upload I had a problem. After submitting the form, it was a blank screen.
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