Okay I lost!

But it was worth losing. There were really good people there.

I was assigned to TextPattern cms and the code structure was pretty easy to understand. They didn’t have (yet) any db abstraction and looking at the code didn’t feel like doing any until later. The unstable code in subversion seems to point out that they want to provide this. Or… it could be just to support some mysql forks.

So I started with putting in the DB layer from their newer version into the stable one. Then after several mishaps later, I had a broken MSSQL support and basically gave up after, in my opinion, lobotomising good code. So in the end I lost.

It was good fun. Quite a while since I had to juggle stuffs in my life and this is good practice.