Blogs are everywhere, and there are many quite capable tools out there for doing them. Of course, using someone else's creation is not nearly so educational as designing and building one yourself. Since I teach PHP5 Bootcamp for the Big Nerd Ranch, I like to explore these kinds of projects: it is a fairly interesting problem, and each time I do one, I get a deeper understanding of the challenges likely to face PHP developers.

In the case of developerBlog, I wanted to focus on the editor-GUI side of the problem; specifically, to see if I could design a better set of tools for handling code (especially PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript). I simply found putting code in existing blogging tools to be annoyingly tedious.

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