After much thought and a little bit of research I have started looking into application frameworks for PHP. What I found was there were a lot website builders and CMS's that also liked to consider themselves 'application frameworks'. However I was able to find a few promising leads and I have decided to follow up on one of them.

The Seagull Framework seems to have a nice interface and a good set of documentation and tutorials to dive into. I am hoping to find something that I can use to assist me in developing my little random apps. I haven't got it up and running yet but I plan to soon. If it turns into anything promising I will follow up with more information.

Other frameworks I looked at were:
MODx
Xaraya

I went with Seagull first because it seemed to be all-around the most active, mature and user friendly project. But, I very well may try these others as well (that's the beauty of open-source).

After failing several times at getting a ppc version of Linux (Fedora) running on my old G3 iMac, I have decided to get my copy OSX 10.3 to run as my new file server/playground web server. So far my research has showed me that most of what I need is already installed. I have found that both Apache and Samba are already running, I just need to dive into configuration. Other than those two things the other stuff that I am going to try to get running are MySQL and PHP.

So far the resources I have found and plan to use are:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/49
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/php.html

This is more of a perpetual goal than a concrete one, I just want to get some experience at administering OSX. Good Luck to me.

I am starting this blog in the hopes that as I research and learn more about technology, I can record what I have learned as well as practice my ability to portray these ideas to others. So here is to hoping...