[Solar-talk] First post

[Rodrigo Moraes]

Well, I though I should present myself since I have been sending tons
of messages to Solar since some time ago. And also to let you
understand why I'm so interested in Solar. I promise I'll try to be
short. :-)

I live in Brazil and have been working with internet for a long time,
since 1998. First as a journalist, and then since about three years
ago as a professional programmer - my interest in this area has grown
more and surpassed any other professional interest I had before. I run
a blog community since 2000, and have been a contributor of the blog
engine it uses - NucleusCMS (http://nucleuscms.org). Time passed and
I've become a Nucleus developer at SourceForge and helped to build
some of the Nucleus sites and many plugins for the system.

My interest and perhaps experience comes from working with
cms/community/social softwares. Since some time ago, it started to
become real the possibility to work at home on my own projects instead
of a "real job", and I started to work in this dream. Once I reached
the "pay the bills without a boss" stage, I quit my job and so here I
am.

First I have considered to use Zend Framework for my project (a base
system for the sites I run and some others I want to build), but I was
kind of disappointed by its modular nature, which is an advantage and
a disadvantage: it is easy to get what you want, but you have to tie
everything yourself. I didn't liked CakePHP and the one I liked most
in the past, Mojavi, has an irregular development that disappointed
me.

And so I found Solar... been a Savant user for quite some time, I was
surprised to never have considered Solar - and probably because we are
all lazy. I was amazed once I started to understand the configuration
and constructors handy concepts, the factories and lazy-loading
spreaded everywhere and the well-tied whole. I'm learning and enjoying
a lot. Congrats and thanks to Paul: Solar is precious.

Well, as I said, I have been sending tons of messages to Solar-talk
and, and this is explainable because I'm working with Solar full-time
since some time ago. Hehe. :-) Sometimes I think I should point people
to a place where they could see the Solar stuff I've been developing,
*if they want*, and pick what they want to use, *if they want*. I wish
I can contribute and provide something useful to the Solar system ;-),
that's the way I think things should be done - I'm an open source man.
So, I'll try to not spam you so much and instead point you to the
Solar namespace I've created on my (plain new) wiki:

http://wiki.tipos.org/doku.php?id=solar:index

Of course, I'll be here and hoping to see a lot of activity on this
list. Hope you are not bored - excuse me, I just feel I should present
myself.

best regards,
rodrigo moraes / brazil