New Build-A-Blog Series!

by David Rogers

So I’m faced with a less-than-unique dilemma. It seems that ppl occasionally listen to what I have to say and may actually find my advice useful. Whodathunkit? Therefore, I need a method of disseminating my apocryphal wisdom to the masses and finding myself straight out of handy newspaper publications from which to spout my nerd rhetoric, I’m turning to that age-old agent of self-publication: the blog.

Okay, “age-old” is a gross exaggeration for sake of prose, but you get the picture. This has been done about a million times, in a million languages, with a million different tools. There’s even one in AppleScript, ladies and gents. Yeah, AppleScript. Google will tell you; you can trust him.

Not being a terrible fan of AppleScript, I’ve opted to use my favorite scripting / templating / programming language of choice: PHP…! And not just any PHP, but PHP5, the best PHP of all (yet)…! Furthermore, I’m kinda on this whole framework-based and test-driven development kick, so I’ll be using a couple of my other favorite tools: phpUnit 3.2 and Zend Framework 1.5. And since I’m horrible about making terrible, irrevocable filesystem mistakes directly onto the internet, there will be heavy Subversion lifting with a local Apache install to test the stupid thing in.

Now, don’t mistake my intentions, here. I well realize that I’m not about to write the latest Wordpress in a single evening, nor that I’m even capable of writing Wordpress in the first place. This is easily an indefinite project of infinite scope, and I’d love all your input on it. “You” in this case being the figurative whole of our current membership / readership. Yeah, that’s you. More minds the better, as always. Let’s hack something up real nice…! :D

David (at) OrlandoPHP.org

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  1. #1 imehesz

    hello, how is the build-a-blog project . where is the repository ???

    –iM
    “the HUN”

  2. #2 David Johns

    Did you go to Lyman High School?

  3. #3 David Rogers

    If you’re directing that at me, no, I did not. I’m not even from the state, actually, unless you’re talking about Lyman, SC. Such a town does exist in my home state, just between a little town called Greer and a small city called Spartanburg. I’m actually from the other edge of SC, however: the Charleston part. There’s a story around my knowledge of the existence of Lyman, SC, which can be totally disregarded if you’re talking to someone else. :D

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