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Welcome to auspex.nl

Welcome to auspex.nl. You are currently viewing version 4 of the website. This design will stay for a while, hopefully. This is the first post and it's main purpose is for testing only. In the future this website will contain articles on all sorts of things, but most likely they'll have something to do with one of the following subjects:

Experiences with CakePHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for web applications. It can be seen as the PHP equivalent of Ruby on Rails. Basic principles of both Ruby on Rails and CakePHP include:
   - Convention over Configuration : if you stick to a basic set of principles (i.e. naming of database tables) you do not need to configure much or anything at all to harness the full power of the framework.
  - Don't Repeat Yourself : all (database-driven) web applications have a lot in common. Rewriting or copying and modifying all of that code is tedious work and should be avoided. It's a basic programming principle to never write the same code twice. This is true for programming on all sorts of levels, so it's just as true for a web application.