And Slaters Go Plop

I do web development for a living. Almost two years ago I made the switch from being almost exclusively Microsoft and .NET to open source and along the way had to learn PHP (and a bit of Python for a while there too).

I’ve played around with many different web frameworks and been frustrated that they often force you to learn an alternative to SQL and/or some kind of restrictive templating language as well as the fact that most of them are too cumbersome for the types of sites that I’m generally required to produce.

So, for the last six months or so I’ve been refining my own MVC web development framework with the goal of keeping it lightweight, high performance and only using standard PHP and SQL where needed. And most of all, open source.

I present my baby, Pointy (the tiny but sharp development framework), which I’ve made available under a Creative Commons license. If you’re a PHP developer and you want to dabble with Pointy, please feel free to pay a visit, download it, play with it and if you find it useful go ahead and use it. I hope it’s as useful to you as it has been to me.