First Post

This is the first post on this newly revamped and more database driven website, my original intention was to create a static website to host my portfolio and my projects but as time went on I decided it would be best to make it database driven so in future I don’t need to edit HTML even if it did mean putting the hard work in and creating all the systems necessary to do that. The first iteration of this site was created in December 2017 using vanilla PHP with no form of templating system and the only dynamic part was the Portfolio page, that was generated using a hand written JSON file to populate the websites I had previously worked on. Later on during my time learning the Laravel framework around August last year, I decided it woul...
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The Undecideds

This site is about 99% done apart from the problems with the symlinks as mentioned in the previous blog post and a few features I’d like to add but can’t decide on the implementation. Comments The problem with comments is three fold, do I want comments at all? And do I roll my own comment system much like this blog or do I hand it off to a service like Disqus, the easiest solution would just be to say no comments at all! But engagement with potential readers is probably good. Then the second easiest would be to integrate with Disqus or similar because all the hard work of creating the systems of banning abusive users and spam protection, but at the same time that’s not exactly showing off my own talents as I did lay the foundation for...
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