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Being from Ruby on Rails background, I can’t help to compare other frameworks that I use to RoR. Maybe this is a bias comparison since some frameworks are built with different purpose in mind.

But there are some techniques that can be used within a framework that is independent of the overall purpose of the framework. One example is implementation of ORM that has been achieved beautifully in ActiveRecord in RoR. There are more such as MVC Design and  agile development Techniques such as generators and helpers

Since I started developing in Joomla and Drupal, I’ve been feeling very frustrated with a lack of good ORM in PHP. So far the popular ones are Propel and Doctine. Symfony agile framwork is based on Propel. But the problem with mentioned ORMs is that there too many configurations to be done before you get to enjoy ORM in your applications.

Yesterday I came acorss Akelos Framework. I haven’t tested Akelos throughly but what I found very intriguing  is that they followed RoR agile techniques very closely. Moreover their implementation of ORM is very similar to ActiveRecord in RoR.  They even solved the model association meta programming done in RoR ActiveRecords such as ‘has_many’ or ‘belongs_to’  for PHP. checkout http://wiki.akelos.org/many_to_many_without_habtm

That’s Very nice.

Come and checkout the first Vancouver Wordpress Camp on Wednesday April 30th at the NetworkHub. This event is hosted by Tazzu Networking, a community for knowledge.

In this event you can meet writers and journalists who use blogs everyday. This is a good opportunity to learn more about blogging tips and how-tos.

Moreover you can learn more about Wordpress, a popular open source blogging application. Some  bloggers will share their experience with Wordpress and show how to customize own blog using Wordpress plug-ins and other embed-able web widgets.

You can learn about the blog at the Tazzu’s Blog.