19 Oct
I’ve Joined The XMLTeam Team
Like I said in a previous post, I’m never out of work for too long these days. Besides, it makes the wife nervous about our ability to pay the mortgage if I sit around the house in grubby clothes not doing anything of substance. Starting Monday I will be working with the folks from XMLTeam from the comfort of my basement lair, doing programming work for them. Yes, another telecommuting job. Better to be lucky than good. 
So why am I working for them? Besides the opportunity to continue working from home, they are in the sports data business. They provide data feeds, in XML format using the SportsML standard, and have some pretty impressive clients on board (many subscription-based clients) and some of the upcoming projects sound exciting (two pretty cool baseball-related things). Since I’m a baseball freak, this is right up my alley.
Sounds good, right? Well, not everything is perfect. They don’t use CakePHP. ;). They preferred CodeIgnitor when they needed some framework stuff done. Not that there is anything wrong with CodeIgnitor, as it has it’s place. My problem is that I can’t keep jumping from framework to framework all the time. My brain gets confused about how to solve things sometimes.
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Posted by B.D. on 19.10.07 at 2:33 pm
Congrats on the new job. Sometime I’d like to hear your thoughts on telecommuting - advantages and disadvantages thereof.
I’ve been telecommuting a lot for overa year now (in Queens, NY) and I have mixed feelings about it.
Posted by Chris Hartjes on 19.10.07 at 2:33 pm
@B.D.
I think my next blog post will talk about that…I think I might have some interesting info to share.
Posted by Eric on 19.10.07 at 2:33 pm
I have a friend that used CodeIgnitor for his page, he said it is pretty good except for all the hacks he had to do in integrating any third party tool. Personally I’m with you i like my cakephp better.
Posted by irfan on 19.10.07 at 2:33 pm
“My problem is that I can’t keep jumping from framework to framework all the time. ”
being new to MVC, i could not get past the basics right in symfony, code ignitor … i have finally struck, how easy MVC is using cakephp.
many to follow, patti cake patti cake.
http://www.mustap.com/phpzone_post_73_top-10-php-mvc-frameworks
btw. ur article on custom pagination is good.
irfan