Felix Geisendörfer Meet

Just came back from one of the most interesting meetings in a while. I’ve just came back from meeting Felix Geisendörfer, one of the core contributors to CakePHP.

I’ve been following Felix’ blog for years now I think (since CakePHP beta days) and his blog is one of the most interesting blogs that I’ve followed. I confessed I’ve learned a lot of things from reading his blog. I learned that he was coming to Singapore a few weeks ago and I contacted him to schedule a meet up.

The meet up was really interesting and inspiring. Thanks to Michael Cheng, for inviting the Singapore PHP User Groups members over as well.

After the dinner session and a lot of chats with him and other attendees, Felix presented one of his projects, Posttask and demonstrated some of features of jQuery. I haven’t been checking out stuffs much these days due to my work (I guess I will need to reduce my workload, or learn to procrastinate less. Much less.) and in his brief introduction, I’ve decided to pick up jQuery and probably switch from Prototype (picked up during early CakePHP days) to jQuery soon.

Interesting stuff, like Felix today, I better get working on Widgeous soon so that it can be shown to Felix this coming Friday.

Thanks also to Michael Lim, who has shared a lot of interesting stuffs with me, especially Adobe Flex and Capistrano.

uzyn.com Relaunched: Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Chyrp

uzyn.com is back. After quite a long hiatus.

I’ve been wanting to ditch Wordpress for quite awhile, for its bloat and its complicatedness but haven’t been able to find something simple but does not lack in essential blogging requirements/features. At a point in time, I even wanted to write my own blog engine, a simple one, but considering my current workload, that is definitely out of the question.

Until a few days ago, I discovered Chyrp. Chyrp is lightweight, yet very extensible and complete. The bare installation does not even have a commenting system, which makes a lot of sense because some blogs do not require commenting system at all. The goodness of Chyrp comes mainly in this extension - Tumblr Pack - with the installation of the feather, now you get to post not just usual blog but other types of content similar to a Tumblelog. There are more extensions available and I have yet to explore them all.

I will also be playing around with Chyrp over the next couple of days and further customize this blog. But so far, I would say Chyrp is the right blogging platform for me for now simply because of its lightweight.

Simple is right.