Re: [nyphp-talk] Code Reviews

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Becker
Tom - Thanks for the clarification and not seen as argumentative (at least by me). Tom Melendez wrote: Hi Folks, We do have a style guide, defined and documented directory structure and naming convention. My objective(s) in the review is to ensure that conventions are being maintained (ea

Re: [nyphp-talk] Code Reviews

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Becker
Yeah, that's how I was looking at it and since I'm the only one other than QA and coders that will be there, I'm not concerned or interested in having anyone look bad.  Nothing more frustrating than getting into a religious argument when there's essentially nothing wrong.  Just a different way

Re: [nyphp-talk] Code Reviews

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Becker
ant since we are a small team and the left hand does know what the right hand is doing," I don't think this is true - even on a small team I find most developers are not that familiar with the work of their teammates. - Ben Peter Becker wrote: Looking to get some views (and best practice

[nyphp-talk] Code Reviews

2009-12-29 Thread Peter Becker
Looking to get some views (and best practices) on code reviews. I used to work at IBM on their early version of Websphere (as UI designer, not coder) where our group had code reviews on a regular basis. I'm now managing a small dev team working on a new web site using Zend PHP/MySql and am curiou

Re: [nyphp-talk] MongoDB and others, convince me. :-)

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Becker
Here here! I think that context is everything and the points you made are spot on.so why this huge interest in non-relational db's now? I'd say it in 2 words Web 2.0 (well actually 1 word and 1integer). Could Facebook, Twitter and any of the others have any idea of what their db should l

Re: [nyphp-talk] CMS - Textpattern

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Becker
.com+drupal.org Not presuming anything other than overall web traffic stats, meaning this project is either one of those great under-the-radar sleepers, a brash young up-an-comer, or a project that just never took off. Don't know personally which of the three Textpattern is. Anybody usin

[nyphp-talk] CMS - Textpattern

2009-11-07 Thread Peter Becker
Hi all - Are any of you familiar with or have used a CMS called Textpattern? I recently have begun working with a designer who uses Textpattern which is his CMS of choice. We're still in the evaluation process of my other project for a CMS system (thank you for your contributions, and will re

Re: [nyphp-talk] Off the shelp CMS w/o the layout?

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Becker
Great way to capture it and reflects how I was beginning to think about it - thanks. - peter Mitch Pirtle wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Peter Becker wrote: And one last question to Kristina, why CakePHP and not Zend? Is it that

Re: [nyphp-talk] Off the shelp CMS w/o the layout?

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Becker
OK, so this last conversation begins to touch on the one I've had with my development team. I know how easy it is for programmers (I'm more like a lowly PM / IT director) to claim that there's not too much to just writing your own, and then watch as revs get burned debugging and getting to the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Off the shelp CMS w/o the layout?

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Becker
OK, So thank you so much for the input, but now here's the funny part Mitchthe first prototype site that we somewhat inherited and are completely redoing from scratch (nearly), used a combination of Joomla and PHP :-)) This was less to get away from anything in particular, just that we kno

[nyphp-talk] Off the shelp CMS w/o the layout?

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Becker
Is there even such a thing as an off-the-shelf CMS that does NOT do layout? We are just beginning to design and spec the next rev of our site using Zend Framework. We're looking for a something that will work for the business to create and update content but not get in the way of our page des