I moved my local site development to the 1.2 RC1, documentation is still hard to figure out but things are getting better.

Right now I have most of the backend done except for Authentication.

What is realy holding me back though is design, I just don’t know what form I want to give my new site and simply do not have the time to work on too much art

Hence I have decided that I will not wait for a new redesign to start bloging (procrastinating for 2 years is long enough ).

I have a list of things to share, and will make sure to type them up soon.

Cheers

This has become so frustrating, that I decided it was worth breaking my year long blog updating moratorium.

I now understand why people have more than one Tape measure; I need to have enough of them that it becomes statisicly improbable for me to not find one when I need it.

Oh; and by the way, I chose CakePHP;

Which framework should I use? Should it be the ever so famous and hyped Ruby on Rails? Or the less known but seemingly good CakePHP? Or should I instead chose to venture into the world of Python and try my hand at the not yet version 1 Django?

For starters Django is in Python, and this adds a complexity, in that I would have to move to a more framework friendly host, say Site5 or Dreamhost. Django does seem to have a nice site and documentation. On a similar note Rails is very hip these days, and I have started playing with it, but once more, I would have to switch hosts, but given the great community that surrounds it, and the books (of which I own Agile Web Development with Rails) I think rails would make a great environment. But wouldn’t CakePHP do? I wouldn’t have to switch hosts (yes I managed to get it running on 1and1) and using ssh I can login, and follow its wizard like interface to create Every single components of the MVC pattern. Plus, its PHP people, you know, the same language as Wordpress, my beloved Wordpress. The decision might be easy then no? Yeah you got it, there is a catch; CakePHP’s documentation is bad.

But does it really matter which framework I chose? they have all left this bitter/ikky taste in my mouth, since after looking at my initial Object Model design I realised that I would have to go through quite a few hacks to get any of them to get anything as close to Object Inheritance implemented. And don’t you dare say Single Table Inheritance.

Am I going to have to settle for a work around? Or will I be brave enough to tamper with one of those frameworks and try to fix this inheritance fiasco?

It all depends on my spider-sense.