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I like it so far…. I think I’ll stay with it a while.

I’m in the process of building three standalone apps using MoonPHP 1.0,  “notes”, “pix”, and “sounds”.  They will be for mini-blogging, photo-posting, and mp3 posting respectively. Then I’ll use RSS to feed them to the front page.

I’ve redesigned moonphp.org with a new theme I call “shiny.” What do you think? The site is also running off of the latest trunk from SVN. I also added some unit tests using the SimpleTest testing framework, which will eventually be an extensive test suite and make it easy to develop new features in a sandbox-type environment. I just started using SimpleTest yesterday, and so far I really enjoy working with it, especially the built-in virtual web browser. I also developed a nifty plugin today (running on moonphp.org) that makes a site support no-www.org, by permanently redirecting http://www.yoursite.com/* to http://yoursite.com/*. I like the no-www idea and I try to support it on my personal sites.

Once I convinced myself I needed a new website, I of course had to name it. Rummaging through my Gmail for inspiration, I stumbled upon a pretty memorable email:

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:54:43 +0240
From: "Ferdinand Brandon" <ferdinandbrandon@mail.ru>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.01 RC8) Professional
Subject: S8F

     I stepped inside  and went straight for the canisters.  I crouched over
one-in-a-million bird. Most of us came along ever so slowly. We went  from
     He looked up from the map  and stared out the window.  And I stared out
and he couldn’t help but think that there might be one or two  gulls  back

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Hi there… something more than slightly eventful today, s8f.org has passed into existence!

As always, when I start a new website I have great hopes for the future. I’m excited about this site because:

• I like the name (lol). So few letters to type makes me happy. It is also easier to say than “finallyInsane.”
• I actually have some things worked out now that I can share with the world.
• I’ve been needing a way to track and formalize my thought progression, especially as I deal with the problems of overhauling my PHP framework, Moon PHP.
• Being so top-secret about my life doesn’t seem so important anymore.
• I like designing, and it’s inspiring to start fresh.
• Doing something non-client-related is pretty overdue.
• Bullets are cool.

This blog is kind of a bridge between what I intend to do later with this site, and now. In other words, I will eventually have lots of cool content to show you :)

~Carlos