Some time ago I posted some conceptual thoughts on effectively managing hierarchical data. I am working on a showcase with the results from my efforts: An extended Wiki system which should bring you the best from all worlds (hopefully). All meaning the simplicity of Wikis, the publishing power of CMSs, the dynamics of business and application logic and finally the hype of AJAX.
What I'm working on is basically kind of a wrapper for PhpWiki. I did a lot of research on various frameworks for rapid application development, and unfortunately, none of them did really satisfy me. There are very good ones of course, but I always had the feeling I had to start from scratch to achieve what I had in mind. Then I came back to PhpWiki which might appear like a rather strange choice as a framework. However, in my opinion, Phpwiki in its core has a very useful codebase and supports a lot of plattforms.
So stay tuned, an early Web-2.0-like closed alpha testing site is not far away from release.
