As you may have ascertained, I’ve not had much time to work on Willowgarden for quite some time. I have to admit I was disappointed in the lack of interest in the Developer Preview 2 release from a community perspective. Perhaps it was partially my fault, since I never got a chance to flesh out […]

Welcome to this week's installment of Willowgarden Highlights. I'll be talking about processing form input and saving it via an archetype (domain model object), a very common task of any Web application.
In the bad old days of processing forms and saving each field to a column in a database row, you'd have to do a [...]

Welcome to the first post in a series of posts I'll be writing about highlights of the Willowgarden application platform for PHP 5. This first highlight may be a simple one, but it's a very useful one as you will shortly find out.
Willowgarden, like many Web frameworks, is built around the concept of pages and [...]

Willowgarden is an application platform/framework for PHP 5 that I started work on towards the end of August 2005, with serious development progress starting around the beginning of the year. On April 28, I released Developer Preview 1 of Willowgarden, and while that was a good start, I knew that the project still had a [...]

Hi folks -- just a quick note to let you know I'm on track to release Developer Preview 2 of the Willowgarden application platform for PHP 5 later today. Check back soon!

Silly me! I forgot today, Monday, is Labor Day here in the U.S. I also got a couple of projects that came up at work suddenly, so I've decided to push back the release of
Willowgarden DP2 'till the end of this week. Thanks for your patience! It'll be worth it.

Willowgarden is a PHP 5 application platform that enables you to build fantastic Web applications. The Developer Preview 1 release, which came out in April, was really just a sneak peak of what was to come. Now we're almost ready for the Developer Preview 2 release, which is a much more robust, full-featured, exciting platform [...]

Hey folks, I'm back! After being gone for a few weeks due to a family emergency, I'm now ready and rarin' to go. First on the agenda: getting Willowgarden Developer Preview 2 out the door! The first step in that direction is adding the code to a Subversion repository, and to that end I've put [...]

I've changed my mind. See? That's what having an open mind will do for you! No, seriously, I have changed my mind, and what I'm referring to is the release plans for DP2.
I now realize I was too ambitious. I tried to "pull a Vista" (sorry Microsoft) and come out with a new [...]

Hey everyone! I've started a new video blog to be an adjunct to The Idea Basket, so sometimes when I feel like doing something more fun than typing on a keyboard, I'll post a new video episode instead. You can watch the video on the jump, or visit this page at YouTube. This short introduction [...]