Under Construction - Or, why I nuked Wordpress
Well, I scrapped the Wordpress install, in favour of a roll-your-own solution.
Obviously the issue is, a roll-your-own takes time to build, and I'm still hacking away.
If you're interested (which you're probably not), Im building on top of the Lithium framework, using Smarty3, HTML5 Boilerplate, jQuery, Modernizr, and Bootstrap from Twitter. All part of a balanced breakfast.
However, I am currently (at the time of writing) cheating. A lot. If you're viewing this before any other post is made, you are viewing a static page (or at least rendered with my Lithium/Smarty plugin served through an empty function in my IndexController.
I should get around to actually building more stuff reasonably soon, and will convert this post to a db-backed system when I do.
Naturally, the whole theme of this site is shockingly poor, but what do you expect from a developer? Again, should probable work on that too.
Many people might say to me, "But Alex, why are you reinventing the wheel? There are many usable blog applications out there!". Well the answer to that is two-fold.
- Most blog applications suck. And I dislike using them so much I never write anything. Maybe with my own solution I'll have the software I want, with all the features I want, and still never write anything...
- If I'm to keep my PHP development skills up to scratch, I should spend time "developing". Writing the front blog on my server seems like a good enough start - and if I can do that using a framework built specifically for PHP 5.3 all the better (5.4 hasn't been released officially, and I'm not installing the 5.4 debs from Sid on Ubuntu Maverick)