Munkirjat.fi
About
This is a personal virtual bookshelf created for helping me figuring out, whether I own a certain book or not.
I read and buy quite a lot of books and sometimes it is a bit hard to remember, if I have a certain book already as I might have over 10 books from a certain author.
Currently the layout is very, very spartan but the app does what it needs to.
Why?
I could certainly have just produced a simple list of all my books but that's not fun to code, is it. ;)
I wanted to create a web app that I have use for and that is fun to code and helps me to learn new stuff.
Technology used
This web app is built using Zend Framework (1.11.6 as of writing) and Doctrine 2.1.x. I DO NOT use Zend_Db at all.
For AJAX and Javascript, I use jQuery.
I chose Zend Framework as the main framework because I simply digg it. It is quite fun to code with and has a great community.
Doctrine is my number one choice when I need to hit the database as it lets me write less tedious and boring SQL.