waded.org » one more layer of abstraction http://www.waded.org Wade Dorrell’s tech & arts blog from the Idaho high desert Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:06:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Want to Break and Remake WordPress? http://www.waded.org/2009/03/25/want-to-break-and-remake-wordpress/ http://www.waded.org/2009/03/25/want-to-break-and-remake-wordpress/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:37:12 +0000 Wade http://www.waded.org/2009/03/want-to-break-and-remake-wordpress/

Data abstraction levels of a database system

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WordPress support for data stores other than MySQL would bust every theme, plugin, widget, and value-add (other than your thoughtful words) for WordPress on the planet.

So naturally, the roadmap to do so is “well, if someone pays us…”

I challenge someone to actually break and remake WordPress with an abstraction layer that’d let it run in MySQL-less environments like Google App Engine or Windows Azure.

What? No, I don’t have time to do it myself. Well, if you pay me…

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