[Solar-talk] First post

[Antti Holvikari]

On 7/26/06, Rodrigo Moraes <rodrigo.moraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Rodrigo, you are a really nice person, a Solary kind of a guy ;-).
Please keep those mails coming and don't hasitate to show your ideas
and code :-) And it was very nice of you to introduce youself.

Solar-talk is the nicest and kindest mailing list on the planet. Also,
I have to mention that about 5 minutes ago I said to one of my friends
on IRC that Solar is the most beautiful piece of software I've ever
seen. Honest.

Like you Rodrigo, I too promise to help Paul where ever I can to make
Solar the holy grail of all the frameworks :-)

Happy coding, fellows!

-- 
Antti Holvikari