"Framework" seems to be the PHP buzzword of 2006. Choosing the right framework for your project is an involved task, but you can refer to this handy "at a glance" PHP framework comparison chart from PHPit.net to get you going in the right direction.

Last August, I blogged about MSN.com and the possibility of a total interface makeover, citing beta.msn.com as an example. If we look at that example now, everything has changed and it provides no indication of MSN makeovers on the way. What happened to the Google-inspired layout with the collapsable boxes?
Does this look familiar? Apparently, Live.com […]

I need to move on and tackle some other projects today, but I just did a quick install of Enhanced Simple Photo Gallery, a fork of Paul Griffin's original Simple Photo Gallery. I haven't spent much time with this one, but have formulated some quick opinions:

While image paths are obscured somewhat in the URL, images […]

Searching for the ideal, standards-compliant photo gallery application, I tried out zenphoto, highly regarded for it's simplicity and clean interface. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get this running. The installation looked simple enough, and I managed to quickly escape from under some .htaccess/mod_rewrite errors, but I haven't managed to get images to actually show […]

I'm currently reading Joe Stump's three part series on a MVC-designed PHP framework, published at ONLamp.com. The article is well written but there is something I find very irritating about the presentation of the code samples: they're overcommented in the extreme! There are so many comments that it makes the code itself harder to comprehend. […]

I have a couple of installations of Gallery running and while there is lots to appreciate about this app, I find that it's often buggy (especially G1) and overblown for my needs, and has way too much table code. I need to upgrade Gallery on a couple of sites and it got me thinking about […]