Rob Goodlatte

The site I designed for Junction, a new open source project started by my friend Alex Schearer, went live today.

Junction is an ORM wrapper—It connects your database to your application, abstracting away the need to write SQL queries. Rather than writing queries, you simply create the data objects needed by your application—Junction keeps the database in sync for you. We’re hitting the ground running today with an alpha release.

The logo and one-page site were a fun little project. I may write a brief tutorial on how I created the light thread effect in the header. Check it out at junctionphp.com

 

1. Jeff Croft October 2nd at 12:43 am

   Ennnnteresting! Having worked with Django’s ORM extensively now, I can say definitely say that ORM is one of the most useful tings ever — especially if you hate SQL, as I do.

   The site looks great — love those icons, and you should definitely write up that effect in the header!

2. Joshua Brewer October 2nd at 2:28 am

   Very interesting. It seems that there are more and more ways to write really great code and things like this make it so much easier for those of us who dont think fluently in SQL.

   For what its worth on the design, you might want to tone down the white on black a little - it’s a bit hard on the eyes. A nice #e9e9e9 wouldn’t be too bad and still make it pop. Just a thought.

3. October 2nd at 2:37 am

   Good call on the contrast Joshua. I’ve sent an updated stylesheet with lower contrast on the headlines to Alex—it’ll be up tomorrow.

4. Tom Watson October 2nd at 2:59 am

   I’m with Jeff. I can’t stand writing SQL queries so the more options there are out there to avoid it the better. Sure it’s been a while since I’ve had to write one, but I’m sure there are lots of people out there who can use an ORM in PHP.

   Yes, this site looks great and you’re right, those are some slick icons. Nice work.

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6. beth October 2nd at 8:36 am

   Cool looking site Rob, I love the subtle icons!

7. Nate Klaiber October 2nd at 9:06 am

   I am on the opposite side of the fence, I like to write SQL. Especially working with frameworks that use ActiveRecord and are not optimized whatsoever. However, I am not anti-ORM. This definitely looks pretty nice and I am sure it will benefit a lot of people.

   I won’t ask any development questions since you were the designer. he. I like the simplicity of the site.

8. Katrina October 2nd at 8:25 pm

   An interesting topic. Being a PHP developer I will be looking into this. It is sometimes hard to keep on all the new things being developed out there.

   You have an interesting blog! I am happy to have stumbled across it.

9. Dan October 3rd at 1:16 am

   I like how you maintain your grid with bullet points in the margins. Nice touch.

10. Breck October 6th at 12:29 pm

    Cool Rob!

    I’ve been doing a lot of work in Rails & CakePHP lately and love the ORM model. It would be great to have a nice standalone wrapper.

11. Aaron Bassett June 12th at 5:20 am

    Is it just me or is junctionphp.com down at the moment? Temp outage or has the project died?

 

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