Starting On A High Note

Well, since I don’t expect to be ending anytime soon. As the title of this blog suggests there will be a lot of client side code. Having said that the amount of server side code will be about the same. I don’t like to differentiate the two. However, I can promise you that all code presented on this blog will be web based. This blog has two main purposes.

1. Keeping track of my coding projects
2. Entertainment value and possible rants

I really hope you can live with that. If not well, that’s just too bad. I’ll use this first post to give you a short outline of the first major project I’m going to keep record of on this blog.

MC: Presents!!

The first big project is going to be a CMS system. A simple one at first, but with a structure that allows easy expansion. So we’re talking about a very modular structure here.

I’m a .NET developer by trade so choosing that platform would be a no-brainer. However, I’m up for a challenge so I’ll do it in PHP. I actually have a few good reasons for that, but I’m not going to reveal them to you right now

I know enough PHP and have enough literature about it to get started so that’s not the problem.

Planning And Project Management

As any half decent software developer knows planning is vital to the success of your project. However, in reality we don’t always get to plan things as much as we like to. Since this project is mainly for my own amusement I get to do things exactly how I think they should be done. Still, I realise that it’s easy to get caught up in the planning stage so I want to avoid that. What I need are some good tools for planning and analysis.

Preferably free!

So the search continues, however, if you know any such tools feel free to let me know