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A PHP Framework for the 2010′s: Part 2

Published on December 30, 2009 By David Dyess II

This installment of the 10′s Series is about enhanced GUI features. I think the two items I’m going to discuss are possible now in most frameworks and that is why I don’t think they are far-fetched. In some ways I feel we are nearing the home stretch of Web 2.0 and approaching whatever they call [...]

A PHP Framework for the 2010′s: Part 1

Published on December 21, 2009 By David Dyess II

There are many different types of PHP frameworks today, most of them are based on a few key concepts and then move in their own direction from there. Before I really get started, let me first say that the title of this series is misleading; there isn’t going to be a single perfect framework to [...]

A PHP Framework for the 10′s: An Introduction

Published on November 5, 2009 By David Dyess II

It’s strange to say 10′s, but we’re less than a couple of months away from those 10′s (2010′s). As my work and focuses on Clay have shifted from one thing to the other, I’ve wondered what I can build into it to make Clay the “next big thing. ” I still don’t know, to be [...]

A New Roadmap for the Clay Framework

Published on February 24, 2009 By David Dyess II

A few days ago I was going through the roadmap to see what needed to be updated. When I got to somewhere near the 0.7.0 milestone, I remembered I intended to transition quite a bit of the framework to OO and methods, rather than the precedural way of doing things at the time. I started [...]

In Search of a Language

Published on February 16, 2009 By David Dyess II

I’ve been using PHP for around 8 years now and I would like to expand my horizons a bit. This morning I looked at a few popular languages (Python, Java, and Ruby). I spent most of the time looking at Python, as it has been getting a lot of attention – Language of the year, [...]

Standalone Code from the Clay Framework

Published on February 13, 2009 By David Dyess II

One of the things I like about my design approach to the Clay Framework is its compatibility. I’ve written a lot of the code so it could easily be transplanted into other projects. The sessions manager is a simple example – I needed a sessions class that supported Creole, but had a hard time finding [...]