Among the most serious, the worst was having deleted the previous blog at WordPress.com

I do that to avoid the content duplication. Unfortunately, forget the little detail about my URL, which was used as an Openid address. I was 3 feeds pointing to twitter accounts through twitterfeed. But now I can’t log on twitterfeed, it only uses openid. As I was using the WordPress.com account as openid and now I can’t use it, can’t go to administer the accounts in twitterfeed. EPIC OWNED :retard: .

At least, the only solution I have is to change the password to the twitter accounts

One place, to explain things

While I do not have a blog module functional for Gonium, I have no further use the enemy (Wordpress). Which is not bad at all, but just the opposite.

While I do not have a blog module functional Gonium, I have no further use to the enemy (Wordpress). Which is not bad at all, but just the opposite.

An important detail: the blog, the project on Google Code, the messages on Twitter, the svn commits and autogenerada API documentation, all will remain mainly in English.

The reason for this is simple: universality. Unfortunately, although I do not like the idea, English is the most universal. Not because of Chilean origin, I would like just a few friends try it. I hope that everyone has the possibility to use it. Who tells me that someone is already looking at the code? And if someone spoke in Italian? Or French? Or German? Or Chinese?

Moreover, the experience in the GDT, I noticed the users (mostly Spanish-speaking), the displeasure of using classes / objects and methods named in Spanish. I do not understand these odd habits, but they are frequent and widespread. In fact, Eduardo Silva, in his speech at the Monkey HTTP Daemon at Linux Meeting, mentioned the same problem with its Spanish-speaking users, so he decided to simply leave the mailing list, blog, documentation, etc. in English. This time, take the same idea and I will see what happens.

For now, I do not expect an explosion of users, while functional version lacking, but I hope ideas, comments and general feedback. I have been asking things like “Are you recruiting people?” This is a relief for those minutes that I question the “What the hell am I doing something that only I care.” If anything, I am recruiting people :B . Zend Framework Developers? Welcome! Any contribution will be equally well received, either from a PHPers, jQueryst, CSSers, Translator, Web Designer or Artist are fully welcome.

Confirming what I thought

Through all this, I had an occurrence like “oh, what if I do the same template Gonium but for wordpress.” That is enough to get a little hand in creating a theme. Once again confirm what I thought long ago about wordpress: is spaghetti.

It really is one of the APIs (if it can even call his “codex”) most horrific I have seen. Because I participate in tecnosquad.org spend a day for “the epic quest for a new theme”, that afternoon I collected a lot of attractive themes, and saved” just in case. ” Finally we found nothing we do feel that “wow, this themes looks like perfect for tecnosquad”, but the search also brought me a good result.

I took one of those issues to code my own. That was when I noticed the importance of certain details.

The first is about the size of a theme. For example the most “professionals” often have more files, and even allow you to add option panels to the wordpress backend. These extra files, themes define their own functions, which have no common interface, each item implements his things to his liking. Some wore classes/objects, but most just loose functions.

Another important detail is that even if the “kernel” for templates are documented, just read a source file is chaotic. Almost none of pulchritude, I would even venture that none of the themes I downloaded (and there were many), not even had the code properly indented.

One of the first things I learned with the Zend Framework, was the “Two Steps” design pattern for templates: a template layout that creates the skeleton of the page, and then add the content on this layout, which may come from other view scripts. In wordpress, there is simply no such thing. I did not look inside the code, but what I saw on the outside (templates), I want to give more “complete” once the first version of usable Gonium. I’m sure it would be a delight for designers.

Later, when I already can blogging calm in Gonium, I will migrate the content and I will reject wordpress. The main idea is more alive than ever: the objective is to create an content manager system of general porpuse, but WELL DONE.
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