Boy, the weeks have really flown by.
Lately I’ve been working on a WSS 2007 project which has been keeping me quite busy. I’ve been learning a great deal about Sharepoint development but I’ve been recording my learnings in the form of documentation rather than blog posts. My co-worker Scott Cowan has been keeping a thorough blog though. Initially my point of view was that I was being invested in to learn this stuff, so to broadcast my knowledge as I gained it would be ethically murky. But I’ve changed my mind about that now, so from now on whatever I learn I’ll post.
I’ve also been working on my CMS recently, trying to get it into shape so that it doesn’t disgust me anymore. It’s like a love-child I concieved during a more irresponsible time in my life and it’s turned out not only to be a time-suck but also just disappointing. I’m really trying to dig in, improve, refactor and rerelease. But I’m happy with the key features and with time and effort I think it will become a good product.
I hosted my blog for a while on it, but I switched because the features I wanted to include in my blog would have taken my too long to implement when I could just sign up for a free one and set it up in a few minutes. That was a good time but now I’m getting more serious about finishing the project I’m going to migrate back to my CMS. I realise now that in the long run I actually want my blog to be hosted on my own software, so to avoid messing up people’s bookmarks andRSS subscriptions (20 people a day and counting!) I’m going to cross-post everything I blog on the wordpress site to my original site. That way when the switch finally happens most of the content will just be there. It’s going to be annoying but hopefully I’ll find a way to automate it.
I managed to get a beta license for ping.fm so it’s going to be cool playing with that. It was really, really hard to get the license (hint: just email them and ask).
I’m also in the process of shifting my hosting from www.enom.com to DiscountASP.Net. So far they seem really cool – pages load in a heartbeat whereas enom was dead slow, and my sites are running on a Windows Server 2008 box. I can manage things like Http Handlers through my IIS7 Management Console, and it’s bliss! They also answer questions promptly which is a huge bonus.
Also I have a Nokia N82 on it’s way to me. It’s about time I had a smartphone and I’m super excited about building some J2SE apps. I have a couple of ideas for things I want to try out.
And I’m using www.rememberthemilk.com, it’s actually really good.
