Smarter Sheep

I have been toying with CodeIgnitor for the last couple of days and have to say that I like it so far. There is another fork of it that I will look at next. I am also spending some time with Scripalicious for ajax functionality to see what combination for php development will give us the best bang for the buck in terms of performance and resources needed to crank out applications in a hurry.

So far the following frameworks look interesting:

CakePHP
Zend
Code Igniter

More to come

Today’s Web 2.0 number is 2, two, dos.. the number 2 is a bright olive green color. The olive green I’m referring to is not a military sort of green, although it could easily go that way if 2 got angry and became militant. I picture 2 as more of a bright glassy olive tone. Your wondering why number 2 is in the green slot? It’s simple, really… number 2 is not number 1. We all know that number 1 is a forever gloating “hey I’m up here on top and your all not..look at me” kind of a color. Therefore, number 2 always feels like less of a number. Two works hard to stay well spirited and tries to glow as best he can… hence the Web 2.0 glassy, shiny-ness, but because he always feels a deep sense of being in second place, the envy show through…just a little… leaving him green.

In my new Web 2.0 series I would like to discuss the close relation between numbers and colors. I know there will be offenses made. So I would like to apologize in advance to those I will offend with my color choices. I would also like to alleviate any concern for the hexadecimal system by stating ahead of time that no colors were hurt during any of my testing.

Today I would like to start with the number 5, Five, cinco… 5 is a blue color. Not blue in the sense of sad, depressed or lonely… that would be more of a navy. I like to think of 5 as more of a blue in terms of corporate colors. Think blue as in Microsoft, IBM and blue ribbons on apple pies at the county fair. Blue as in, “wow her eyes sure light up when I come through the door”.

If you don’t agree with my assessment of the number 5, leave a comment and we can discuss it.

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I was in Borders Books & Music this week and picked up a book that caught my attention. The book is titled Web 2.0 Heroes and it’s a series of interesting interviews with some top players in the .com world. I’m on chapter three and so far it’s been pretty good. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Amazon has plenty of copies if you want to read along.