Andy Chase


I've been tinkering with the [Code Igniter](http://codeigniter.com) framwork, and so far I'm pretty infatuated; it seems like pMachine spent a great deal of time on both architecture and user experience - users in this case meaning programmers. I assembled the above portfolio tag cloud view (and supporting models and controllers) with only a few hours of coding, and it only took that long because I was flipping through the [documentation](http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/index.html) as I went. I spent more time entering data than I did coding.

It may also be that I'm returning to PHP from Java; it's very refreshing to be able to just *code* instead of wading through all of the objects and interfaces that Java forces you to use. As a language PHP may feel a little bit more cobbled together, but Java sometimes feels inhumane in the lengths it goes to to be "Objecty".