I'm almost done with my blog software, at which point I will resume workingon my comments software so that the mysterious users who have signed up to be able to comment, can actually comment! I can finally hear from strangers how much I suck and how broken my software really is. It'll be fun!

Once comments are done, I will release the website for all those who are curious. I'll be interested to hear both what I did right and what I did wrong, as this and Pho Cart are my first major Zend projects. On a side note, I will probably be adding web comic management to the software as well. My wife and I have started down the road of putting together a web comic based on a book that I about 2/3rds wrote. More on that as, and if, it solidifies!

And thanks to folks who have tested my mail form to insure it works. I'm mildly curious as to what compels people to type "asdfasdf" a bunch of times into random form fields, but on the same token getting fake mails is better than getting no mails. It means someone's actually looking at this thing. Fun!

Well, my blog software officially kinda works. These posts are being viewed with my blog display code. However, I have not finished the administration section so I am manually typing entries into the database. Less than idea, but it is a start.

Zend Framework is kind of a paradox; it makes things very very easy to do, once you know how to do them. But learning how to do those things is somewhat difficult. I should probably go and hunt down more coding examples; that's really how I learn, by seeing how other people have been doing it. That, and by having an actual project to work with. Fortunately, I have no lack of projects!

I have been working on a secure SVN server so that I can make my SVN repositories available to the general public. That should be available in the nearish future. I'm not in a big rush until I have something I want to publically release, but this website is close so I'm going to want it soon.

The last things to do are the administrative section and the comments engine to allow people to post comments on every page. I may just release it when I've finished the administrative section, as how I want to do comments is still a little muddled in my head. But in the meantime, if you make an account and find you cannot do anything yet, that is not a bug. That's just me not getting around to finishing it!

Tanabicom blog is coming soon. Currently in the process of programming it, even! You may say I'm re-inventing the wheel as there are plenty of blogs out there, but I see it more as practicing building a wheel using the Zend Framework. A blog is a nice, easily defined piece of software that is relatively simple as things go. Hopefully, you'll find it informative!

Another thing that I hope will be informative is the site's code itself. Once I am done (which will be soon), I intent to release it open-source as a Zend Framework example. It may not be the best example in the world, but Zend Framework sorely needs every example it needs. This site does a lot of cool javascript and ajax tricks, too, even though it may not look like much.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you will keep coming back. I will be updating the project pages in the near future. Phocart in particular is seeing increadible progress!