This ‘Aint No Heavy Metal

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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Those who’ve worked closely with Rain knows we’ve been a fan of using frameworks to bootstrap our development process. They have oodles of advantages over the re-invent-the-wheel approach, and our involvement with the PHP framework world has been intimate. I currently lead the documentation efforts for one of the most popular PHP frameworks available, CakePHP.

I’m also a founding member of the team for a new project called Lithium (aka Li3). The project is based on some experimental code in the CakePHP sandbox. Anyone familiar with CakePHP should feel at home in Lithium&emdash;the framework was based on CakePHP concepts and conventions, and many of the same developers who brought you CakePHP are now actively working on Li3.

I’d like to invite you to dive it and check things out by walking along with me through this quick tutorial, which covers the creation of a über-simple blogging application. After having walked through it, you should have a good idea of how Li3 is shaping up, and how to create your own simple applications with it. (more…)