P3 - Personal Management

Part of the awesome SAPO Campus project

The Challenge?

• To create a personal space for managing and consuming information

• Promote a spirit of community and sharing

• A web application that offers a desktop-class experience

But how?

• Through a flexible, easily expandable and user-friendly platform

• With a widget-based architecture, easy to build and add to the application

Inspiration - Netvibes

Inspiration - Google Reader

Inspiration - iGoogle

What about the technology?

Two platforms to consider:

CakePHP + jQuery

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CakePHP

• Uses the MVC design-pattern

• A technology already grasped by the author

• More oriented to building traditional or hybrid web apps

jQuery

• Most used Javascript framework

• Total separation between content and behavior (like CSS)

• Plugin-based architecture and lots of documentation to go around

Cappuccino

Cappuccino

• Application Framework based on Cocoa, but written in Javascript (Objective-J)

• Designed for building web apps that behave like desktop apps

• No previous experience by the author makes it a risky solution

Cappucino powers 280slides.com

Any doubts?

Come on, leave me a comment!