Even though I’ve been really busy with consulting work these last few months, I always seem to find time to start a new personal project. It doesn’t seem to matter how busy I get actually. There’s always so much to learn. So many new technologies, methodologies, frameworks, platforms, you name it. It never stops.
I think that the best way to learn these new things is by working on personal projects. Especially, if you’re going to learn a few new things at once. Otherwise, you may dig yourself into a hole that will take weeks to get out of.
So, my new project. I’m writing a web-based bit-torrent interface for linux servers. I haven’t quite decided which torrent client to wrap it around yet though. It’s meant as a replacement for Torrentflux which I find a bit too cumbersom. My vision is to build something more streamlined, both functionally and visually using PHP with CodeIgniter, Blueprint, and JQuery.
I’m sure this is going to take forever because I’m so busy, but it’s meant as a learning project as much as anything. I’ll post updates as it progresses, and eventually the source code.
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I’ve been playing around with CodeIgnitor this past week. It’s a pretty slick MVC framework for PHP. I’m seriously thinking of retiring my custom framework for this purely for the sake of rapid development.
Who can make money in web development if you spend so much time writing supporting code for your projects? The folks at CodeIgnitor have already done most of the heavy lifting for you.
If I combine CodeIgnitor PHP framework with the JQuery javascript library, I can pump out some pretty impressive, functional sites in short order.
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a web-based controller for a Bit Torrent engine to replace Torrentflux. This might be the perfect testing ground for these two technologies.
