PHP development of Socglue.com

I am programming SocGlue.com with PHP. After programming in C++ and Java, it was a natural choice to fall into this programming language . In my experience programming, I have leaned towards open source solutions since day one. I first began writing software applications in 1993; There really was not an effective drag and drop IDE for creating a piece of software quickly.

My transition from solely programming software applications to including web applications occurred when there was a drought with software development at my job. I decided to pick up on web development, as there were numerous clients in need of a website, and I needed something to fill the programming gap. After researching some of the backend web development languages, PHP was the logical choice since its syntax for object oriented programming was similar, and the class object layout was very easy to understand. Furthermore, using the PEAR DB library made life much easier pulling objects from a mySQL database. Smarty templates was the final piece of the puzzle to acheive a versatile web app, which I will write more about later...