The future of thinkingphp.org

Posted by Felix Geisendörfer, on Aug 20, 2006 - in Company & Personal News

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You might have noticed that I changed the title of this blog to "ThinkingPHP and beyond" a couple days ago. I did that because currently I'm thinking a lot about where go with it. I definetly want to stay focused on PHP in general, but I feel like I (and a lot of other php developers) actually work with a lot more technologies then "just" php. So I'd like to talk about that as well.

In the beginning of this blog I talked a lot about CakePHP and published quite a couple of classes and tools I've written for others to use. Lately I'm in the process of becoming an agile developer and so naturally I'd like to write a lot about Unit/Integrational testing. But I've also done some interesting javascript coding in my local sandbox that I feel like sharing.

So what I'm saying is, that I have a lot of different things I'm interested in and would like to write about. In the next couple of weeks I'll release a completly new, CakePHP based version of this weblog, featuring a completly new design and structure (legacy posts / urls will remain supported).
After that I want to start writing some in-depth articles and tutorials in a special section. The blog itself I want to turn into a more quick-n'-daily-read experience instead of the long posts I do right now.

So far, the options I'm considering to write about are:

  • PHP Coding practices (debugging, IDE's, commenting, style)
  • Agile Development (testing, automation, collaboration, svn)
  • Web Standards / Usability / Accessibility
  • CakePHP (tutorials, examples, re-usability)
  • JavaScript coding (behaviors, gracious degradation, etc.)
  • Web Services (with CakePHP)
  • General ranting and raving about MS IE (just kidding)

I'm still in the phase of planning all of this out, and I would be highly interest in your, my readers, opinion on it. So go ahead and tell me what you'd like to read more about in future, and I'm pretty sure most of it would be a pleasure for me to write as well ; ).

Update: I forgot to mention: This will all lead to me writing a lot more on here in future ; ).