History: UserPagefortuity

I live in Marin County, north of San Francisco.

In 1991, as a member of the original www-talk mailing list, i was an early participant in the development of the Web. Since then I've worked as a Java developer on web applications for large companies. I like PHP for my personal projects.

I got interested in tikiwiki when i saw it was among the top 25 projects on sourceforge (December 2003). I had heard of it before but was under the (false) impression that it was only a wiki. To me it's not a Content Management System, either (though obviously it can be used as one), because the CMS products I've encountered are primarily useful in insulating users from HTML or PHP coding, and tikiwiki is most useful to me because i can tinker with the underlying code. Based on my experience with Java web applications, I'd call it a web application framework. A very well-developed one with lots of pre-built high-level functionality (unlike Java web application frameworks).

I'm pleased with tikiwiki, especially the large base of support!

Project

12 December 2003

I'm evaluating tikiwiki after having worked briefly with the xaraya CMS. Features in xaraya are called "modules": I wrote a "dailyquotes" module for xaraya. I'm working on a "dailyquotes" feature for tikiwiki, to explore the tkiwiki dvelopment idiom.

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