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GCMS(my blogging system) alpha is here

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Well so after almost a fortnight of writing and rewriting code…i present the alpha of GCMS - The blogging system that lets you write(only!). Its still under development…so don’t expect anything fancy because this the first working version, is just skeletal and there are no additional features. There has been hardly any testing and the code is premature.

BTW, the name, GCMS, is just a code name during the alpha version…actually i couldnt come up with any clever name, hence code name : GCMS :P, which stands for Ganesh’s Content Management System. I shall come up with a better name…hopefully soon!

It is something I did for fun and for learning more about PHP. I plan to update it daily(i mean weekly :P) the code is free for use under the GNU GPL. I hope you build upon it, test it and share your insights with me and others :)

Download Source Code of GCMS 0.1 Jan05/2010

Resumed building a CMS/Blogging System

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Over the past few days(almost a week) I resumed working on a content management system that I had abandoned a few months ago. It is coming up quite all right, and has some primitive functionality. I don’t see it replacing wordpress for my site but it may come handy for smaller sites. Anyways, the main challenge I faced while resuming was the lack of documentation/commenting(duh! the books never lied about comments). I have made it a point to comment on whatever new code I write. And also, kudos to the online tutorials which have made life easier. Pagination is easy with the help of online tuts.

For those who are not following…things’ll get clear as soon as the alpha version comes out…dont expect anything spectacular. It’ll contain some basic(basic is an understatement…downright skeletal would be appropriate) features. Its not intended for commercial purposes, its just something I am doing to try out my PHP skills. BTW did I mention it runs on PHP and uses MySQL database.

Stay tuned for more updates…and expect better posts in the recent future ;)