http://www.theideabasket.com Deconstructing the arcane art of Web software architecture Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:16:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season this year, and I wish you many blessings for the coming year. I don't know how many people know this, but this is actually the fourth (or fifth?) incarnation of The Idea Basket. It was originally a tech news and commentary ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/12/29/the-end-of-an-era/ 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 ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/11/07/some-time-off-for-willowgarden/ Geez, I haven't posted anything here since the 19th? For shame! But it's not completely my fault. Here's a rundown of what I've been up to lately: Launched a new Web site for Binary Sea, an electronic music group I recently co-founded with Shayne White Rehearsing for upcoming gigs of aforementioned group On ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/10/06/full-up/ 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, ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/19/willowgarden-highlight-easy-processing-of-form-input/ 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 ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/12/willowgarden-highlight-template-modes/ The idea of programming via a Graphical User Interface rather than typed code has been around for a long time, but it's never caught on because usually the solutions are still too hard and abstract for non-programmers to grasp and too cumbersome and clunky for power users comfortable with whipping ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/11/programmingvia-the-gui/ 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 ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/08/developer-preview-2-of-willowgarden-has-been-released-today/ 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! http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/08/willowgarden-dp2-coming-today/ 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 ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/09/04/just-a-tiny-delay/ 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 ... http://www.theideabasket.com/2006/08/30/cross-your-fingers-september-5-dp2/