It's about time I stop calling this thing ‘Foo CMS’, so I've decided that its proper name will be Daizu CMS.
I've registered the domain daizucms.org, so that's where the website (and these blog articles) will appear when the code is actually capable of publishing anything.
Why Daizu?
I didn't feel particularly inspired as far as a choice of name goes, so I tried looking up Japanese words which would be relevant. Unfortunately all the cool ones with meanings like ‘fast’ and ‘robust’ are already too widely used in English, for companies and the like. So I thought, what the hell and looked for less meaningful words. Daizu is in fact the Japanese word for ‘soya bean’.
In Japanese, daizu is written 大豆 (or だいず). The two kanji literally mean ‘large bean’ (in contrast to the small bean, usually called ‘red bean’ in the West).
There wasn't any particular reason to pick a bean-oriented word, but daizu is a short word which doesn't have any difficult sounds for us English speakers. It also doesn't seem to be used much in English, and only in relation to actual beans. But if you think a name has to have some rational explanation, how about this: soya beans are very useful and can be used to make a wide variety of things. That's good. And apparently “the specific type of protein present in soya beans is good for improving the memory…” which is surely of benefit to a CMS based on revision control. So there you go.