Guest posters wanted
- Posted by dlib on July 22nd, 2008 filed in Kohana
This is post number 75 and I’m quite proud to have reached this number. It can at times be quite hard to find the time for a new post, or even a topic for that matter. Nevertheless, thanks to the feedback I’m getting, I get quite a bit of inspiration and there are quite a few drafts in the pipeline. Thanks!
Despite all that I’ve written on Kohana, the framework still has secrets for me. I am yet to touch the Calendar library or the Auth module. There are other libraries, helpers and modules that I hardly, if ever, use. Not because they’re not any good, just because I don’t need them. As a result I can’t blog about them with the level of expertise I post about other things, even though these libraries also deserve this blog’s attention.
So, if you think you’re knowledgable on a subject this blog should cover and you feel you can write a post about it, please register and leave a comment, so you can share your knowledge with the rest of the world. This applies to any topic relating to Kohana; libraries, best practices, production code examples, anything that will benefit the Kohana community.
Anyway, thanks for all the comments in the last 74 posts. Right now there have been over 300, (over 700 including spam). Thanks again. On to the 100 posts.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
I’m not knowledgable enough yet to contribute, but I just wanna comment to show my love for all the hard work in this blog!
I’d love to see something about Kohana and performance. What libraries, modules or techniques to avoid or to include, good programming practices in relation to Kohana, what the tradeoffs are for certain libraries, etc…
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
hey dlib,
i wrote a short intro for a best practice in setting up a kohana project, how can i send it to you so you can decide if its worthy to be published?
-b
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
bennythemink: I gave your account ‘author’ priviliges so you can use the wordpress admin to put your article.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
trainwreck:I try to stay away from benchmarks, on the one side because I don’t have much experience with them, on the other they’re often plain pointless because they don’t measure anything.
On tradeoffs I can be simple, using a framework or a library always make performance suffer. Writing everything by hand is fastest (and not using php). Kohana is pretty lean and because of that I rarely find performance an issue. One of the goals of a framework or a library is to help you program faster. Developer time is more expensive than a new server. APC, memcache, caching, etc. can also help boost performance. If performance becomes an issue there are dozens of ways to optimize. Until then I’d rather have cleaner code that’s more maintainable.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
hey dlib,
Thanks for the author priviliges. I put up my post, its fairly small, simple and aimed at new users. have a read of it and if you think it would be of any use feel free to publish it.
-b
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
After half a year i should be a bit familiar with Kohana. Hoping i can share this with others.
Unfortunately i don’t know how to start such an article. Maybe i can learn form you.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I put another tutorial up there dlib. it deals with integrating kohana with eclipse and subversion. its a bit long i’m afraid sorry about that. let me know if you think it needs changing/editing.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I’ll review bot articles sometime this week and publish them.
Dyron: I’ll give you the rights to start an article. It really can be about the simplest things since what you find simple might be difficult for others.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Congrats on #75! And thanks.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Yes dlib, much praise be heaped upon you!
this blog has become a critical resource IMHO for Kohana docu.
I can’t wait until I no longer feel like a chimp with 10 thumbs when it comes to Kohana so I can actually contribute!
Seriously, though, for any of you programmers out there who feels like they understand Kohana but can’t or don’t like to write, I offer a trade; explain stuff to me (like Auth, which I *almost* understood until the new version came out!) and I will be happy to help you write or even ghost-write a tutorial….
August 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
hey dlib, ive another post up there waiting for your approval. hope its helpful.
-b
August 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I would be willing to write a series about building a CMS module. It would be fairly simplistic, however, it would be useful.
What do you think?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Good idea, register like it said in the article and bug me with another comment and I’ll give you the priviliges
August 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Registered. It may be a while before the first one is ready to post (I don’t want to post it until the second one is complete…I’m in high school, so I want there to be a little bit of a buffer for the posts =D)
August 16th, 2008 at 8:00 am
You got the priviliges, go to learn.kohanaphp.com/wp-admin to check them out
August 21st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Hey dlib,
Let me know if you want me to do that tute on fallback controllers.
Cheers,
Dave
August 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Sure if you can find the time. I’ll give you the priviliges right away.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
Thanks! How do you get code-formatted output? I’ve tried pre and code and even put the class attributes in but WP seems to be stripping them…
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
And in your personal settings turn off the wysiwyg think. It’s a checkbox somewhere.