I’ve been using svn for a good few years now, and until a few months ago resisted the change of moving to another versioning software. However as the general buz of the internet turned more and more to distributed version control systems I started to read up a little on them.

I saw bazaar and git as the two potential front runners but after some of the Kohana devs made some noise about Git (and hinted Kohana may ultimately move towards Git), I decided to pick up and Git as my potential weapon of choice.

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I previously posted the Curl library that came about as a result of needing this Twitter integration for something I was doing, so I thought it would be rude not to post up the twitter library as well!

I gues you could say twitter has become fairly popular (follow me at ninja_p)
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So Curl is awesome! But due to my goldfish-esc memory working with it is always a lesson in searching the docs. The great thing with working with a framework is that such tasks can easily be adapted to your own way of working. The great(est?) thing about Kohana is that it is just so damn adaptable, it provides you with a shed load of functionality right out the box, but it’s true power (to me) is that it is easy to adapt to my way of thinking and my way of developing. Add to that the fact that adding extra stuff is laughably easy (if it hasn’t been done allready) and you have a mighty powerful weapon.

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