Software development and software quality
So I had my local Joomla! test installation and it was working fine so far. The next step was to transfer the installation to my public web host. It’s a classic LAMP multi-user host with PHP4 and MySQL. Nothing to expect any problems from…
Today I installed the latest WordPress release (2.5) and it works great. WP would fit neatly into my “Why some web applications are more usable than others” series as a positive example of how to do stuff.
After the installation I decided to change the theme to something more suitable. The default theme is nice, but a little too narrow for my taste. I particularly liked the Big blue and Silver Light (hope they don’t run into troubles with Microsoft for this) themes, and decided to go the blue way. Both themes were using a default font size for the post texts that was a little small, so I increased it from 11px to 12px. I don’t understand why so many people use such small font sizes on their web pages.
After the DotNetNuke desaster I settled down to the more classic way – nice and understandable PHP CMS software. After some consultation I had to decide between using typo3 and Joomla!. Joomla! made the win (I just thought typo3 was a little too complex for the given situation), but it was no easy task…
Just recently a colleague and I had to design a little web site and fill it with some content. We decided to use an open source CMS and since the existing infrastructure contains a Windows 2003 Server with IIS and MS SQL as a database backend, he convinced me to give DotNetNuke (DNN) a try. This was when the fun began…
From time to time I will write about software and its development, but perhaps also about other things coming to my mind. This is my first blog and I don’t know yet how it will evolve.
I’m a software engineer from Austria in his late twenties, and I have roughly 8 or 9 years experience in web development. My biggest publicly available code was probably a modified version of the phpBB 1.x discussion board, followed by some hacks (or mods as they are called now) until I gave this up due to a lack of time. I have lots of experience in PHP, and some in various other languages and technologies.
Perhaps I will also write a bit more about myself later on, but for now this should be enough. I you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send an email to david (at) vworld.at.