The I.T. Life

Whos with me here? Ever since my time at NSCC, they have pushed the “portfilio” concept. I have seen its use, and lack there of. Yes, a portfolio is a great idea, espically in IT, and web, where we can put all our stuff in one location to show to a potential employer or a contract. Company portfolios are extreemly powerfull, to be able to give a presentation to a client and quickly show what you have down. On the other side, as a IT worker, to beable to show what you have in a very slick way can be just as powerfull. Now, I have never been asked for a portfolio in a interview, however I have been asked for work examples. My idea is for a very quick way to do this. I want basically a purpose driven CMS. I want to develop a product that has a uber slick install like wordpress, has a great backend, has a very customizable front end. I want it to be Ajax driven, PHP/MySQL, I want to use a solid open soruce framework, and I want it to be popular. But will it be? If you had this, would you care? Would the kicker for you be that you have a very powerfull back end, and a front that is so customizable you can create a flash template instantly? or a flex site for that matter? I’d like to hear from some guys in the community right now, users, and developers. What do you want, what do you need? What can make this something that you want to use? So, whos with me?

I think I’m going to take the bit jump and convert my portfolio over to the zend framework. Its a excellent framework that should simplify alot of the tasks that I am doing already, and give me the flexability to expand it. The idea behind a framework is that most of the work will be done for you, you have a massive library of code behind you that you can tap into. It cuts down your overhead by giving you pre-written code. Also, moving to zend will mean I can convert the site to full OOP and MVC. The problem of course is though this will have many long term advantages, this will mean taking a project that is about 50% done, and sending it back to square one. This won’t be a really quick transformation, but I think it will be at the very least, a good experiement.