BiffCMS is now Kiroku!
A few weeks ago BiffCMS changed names to Kiroku (which means Document in Japanese). This was mostly motivated by the fact that BiffCMS, in its current incarnation, bears little resemblence to what BiffCMS was even a year ago. A great deal of work has been done under the hood as it was converted over to Zend Framework and the UI is undergoing a complete overhaul that removes the old table-like layout of most of the pages.
jQuery is being employed in the Adminstration area to make it function much easier and cleaner than ever before:
The Plugin model has been revamped from the old BiffCMS months ago as well as the addition of Sections. A nicer WYSIWYG editor is in place over the old BiffCMS. All in all, Kiroku has grown a lot since BiffCMS was started by me years ago as a quick way to design and maintain web pages.
There are a few other projects that I’m working on and, as they grow, are moving away from the Biff name. The BiffAPI most of my code was built on in the PHP4 days is no longer worthwhile since I’ve moved on to the Zend Framework, so its appropriate that these project names change.
If you’re interested in working with Kiroku, just drop me a line through e-mail or hit me up on Twitter.
Biff Project Manager Launched
Another project of mine has been launched - Biff Project Manager. Biff Project Manager is a project management system that I am building to replace my by-hand method of project management. The first SVN commit has been made and you can check out a fresh copy from Google Code.
What does it do?
Right now not a whole lot. You can add projects and tasks to those projects. Thanks to the beauty of jQuery and AJAX you can edit the tasks right there in the table without having to go to any special pages so updating your tasks is as simple as using a spreadsheet. It is great for simply noting down what you need to do but in the coming weeks it will be expanded to do much more. Time spent on each task is recorded as well as who completed the task.
Installation
Installation is fairly easy. Check out a copy from SVN and put it up on your web host. You will need to edit the ‘public/.htaccess’ file’s rewrite rule to the path that you unpacked it to. Once that is done run the SQL setup script in ‘data/db/base.sql’ to set up a basic database. That’s all there is!