Bermi Ferrer

I work using Open Source tools on a daily basis. Since 2005 I have also released some of my tools to the Open Source community.

These are some Open Source projects I created and leaded:

Akelos PHP Framework [2004-2010]

The Akelos Framework is a port to PHP of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework. I decided to build my own MVC framework after considering several others. Although I loved Ruby on Rails I needed a framework that allowed me to distribute standalone scripts that could run on cheap shared hosting without modifications read more…

Sintags [2005-2010]

Sintags is a minimalistic template engine. Its basic syntax is composed of only “?“, “_“, “{“, “}“, “end“, “.” and “-” characters.

Sintags also has support for calling helper functions using a Ruby-flavored syntax.

Parsed Sintags is converted to PHP code and cached as a .php file for better performance. read more…

Editam CMS [2007]

Editam is a modular Content Management System built on top of Akelos 0.8. Editam offers powerful features like content inheritance multiple layouts per site, SEO-ready architecture, page hierarchy, page behaviors (form, blog, error page…) at any level in the page tree, multilingual content management. Visit the editam Trac site

Protopass [2010]

Unobtrusive and simple JavaScript password strength checker for Prototype. read more…

XHTML Validator [2006]

Small library for PHP and JavaScript for validating XHTML documents. read more…

Inflector [2006]

Python component for singularizing and pluralizing nouns in English and Spanish. Useful for creating convention based applications. read more…

PhpBase [2005]

[DEPRECATED] PHP library for submitting content to the discontinued Google Base. The project was released two days after the official announcement and before Google released the official API. read more

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Other open source projects I have contributed to

WYMeditor [2007]

WYMeditor is a What You Mean Is What You Get Editor that can be embedded in CMS and web applications. It is the first editor for creating semantically correct content and it’s supported by most popular CMS’s. I helped refactoring WYMeditor by creating the core Parser/Lexer for validating, sanitizing and removing browser and MS Word specific formatting. Visit the WYM editor site

I have also contributed with patches to many open source projects like Ruby On Rails, Lightbox, iPHP …

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As GitHub is making it easier to maintain Open Source projects I’ll be releasing more tools in the future.