A Path Less Taken

Although I’m sure there are more than this, here is quick run down on some PHP ORM solutions that I was able to find with limited searching. The first 2 seem to be the most popular ones. If you know of another good solution please post a comment.

• Doctrine
• Propel
• Outlet
• RedBean
• dORM
• Jelly
• Kohana ORM
• Sprig
• LightORM
• Flourish ORM
• php-activerecord
• CoughPHP
• Torpor

I needed to find a wiki program. I know, it happens to the best of us. I did a little shopping around and decided to give DokuWiki a try. DokuWiki is an open source product written in PHP that uses text files to store content. It supports what at first glance appears to be a hybrid (or not) form of Markdown. It only took about 30 minutes to get the hang of it and start creating design notes and task lists for my new programming project. If you need a wiki software product you should absolutely check it out. You can visit WikiMatrix.org if you want to see how DokuWiki compares to other wiki solutions.

Building good looking web layouts is a PAIN for a programmer like me. I was recently doing some research and came across a post on Fluid Grids on A List Apart. The article describes in great detail an approach for building grid based CSS layouts that are fluid across different screen resolutions / browsers. This is really interesting to a programmer like me so I posted it here for others to check out. If any of my readers (all 3 of you) have any suggestions for the “best” CSS Framework for a non-designer please post a comment and let me know. I’m looking for all the help I can get.

It’s funny how the web works. I started off reading about how to set up a new project in Kohana v3 PHP Framework. A link there took me to the source code of a site by shadowhand, one of the Kohana v3 core developers. That lead me to the site of w.ings consulting which is the web development business of Woody Gilk (aka shadowhand). From there I went to the BlueTrip CSS Framework page which was pretty cool and which I will for sure try on my new project. BlueTrip was created by Mike Crittenden so I checked out his blog. Turns out that Mike’s blog is powered by Chyrp blogging software, which is written in PHP and which I have never encountered before. Not that I need another blogging software (WordPress), but it’s always fun to find new things.

After digging around on the web for a few days I encountered several interesting links on Open Source Project Management software. I captured them here for future reference.