About

The ShiftedBits Framework was founded by Mike Sherwood, who before coming to the realization that the name “ProtoNeo” sucks, was working on a PHP framework meant to use PHP’s object oriented-ness in it’s full and final glory.

This specific blog is for his random thoughts, some code he decides to write every now and again (mainly now because he’s in school learning to program), and is full of him being a really weird kinda guy. But a weird guy who thinks, a lot, none the less.

Some history about the actual project that spawned this name, and hopefully will do most of the news fillings here:
Back in the lonely old days of 2008, Mike got a crazy idea to write his own CMS. It wouldn’t be the first one he wrote, but it’d be the first one that’d actually be worth something. So doing some research that he didn’t really need to do, he pinned down his requirements:

– Latest (stable) version of PHP
– Simplicity through Complexity
– Object Oriented
– Under Revision Control
– Documented

(As far as that last one goes, he’s been documenting the hell out of it, and that process has actually been known to cause him to take random hiatuses from his coding sprees to actually do something that has nothing to do with documentation.)

The idea was to create something simple and easy, with documentation to make someone who had no clue about programming understand what he was doing, and then also take advantage of a niche clientele and have them use the latest version of PHP and MySQL to avoid any possible security problems that he can’t fix. And that’s just the framework.

Lately he’s actually branched off the framework and started laying out how he wanted the CMS that will be based off it to be layed out just for kicks.

When not at his computer, you can find Mike playing games in general, mainly Dungeons and Dragons, or something on Xbox, at school, and watching Asian martial arts movies on Netflix.