I’ve been playing around with Drapper for a while now, and I honestly have to say - its one of the coolest little web apps I’ve seen in a long time in terms of the “Wow I have so many bloody uses for that!!” factor! I have lost track of how many times I have had to preg_match() [arrgghh!] myself towards some nice output from a service which doesn’t have an API (read: Xbox Live Gamercards), and now, this simple service does most of the work for me:

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One thing which I hate is slow sites. If I’m googling for something, and a page I’m trying to load is taking its time, I usually click the next interesting link. So when I had finished nuefoo using a pretty optimized Wordpress system, I was pretty let down with my cheap Dreamhost hosting (to be honest - what did I expect?).

As the months went on, the gap between my first blog post, and a new one was ever growing, mainly because I realised that anything I did post would probably never be seen, as if anything I did post actually got Dugg to the front page (which I would be utterly proud off), or even got linked by somebody, the visitors would either be put off by the slow loading (upwards of 5-10 seconds at times), or the fact that Wordpress would return the database “Wordpress can’t connect to your database” error or even worse, not load at all, leading to “lol digg killed ur server!!!” comments on digg. And remember this was a simple styled Wordpress blog, which I expect is utterly polished and optimized by several people - what would happen if I tried to run a custom app using the CakePHP framework?

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