So I’ve been away for a little while. I know, and I feel a little guilty, but hey, that’s what holidays are for. I’m now officially getting back to some degree of work, and to that end have created myself a goal with the pretty cool Beeminder to work for at least 20 hours per week on Piemaster-related stuff. Currently no pledge, but it’ll start going up if I start failing. Wish me luck!
So what am I up to now?
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The updates have been fairly sparse recently, but as Christmas (or equivalent) approaches everyone gets pretty busy. Fortunately, a few of the things I’ve been very busy with are Piemaster-related: I’m breaking some new ground with Forgbook and Buffex, and exploring a couple of other potential projects on the side.
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So as I mentioned, one of the nice things about Drupal is the integrated forums. There’s a WordPress plugin called bbPress which provides integrated forums for WordPress, but it’s still early days in terms of a number of features. For one, it seems happy to style itself independently of the rest of the site.
You may have noticed the shiny new white theme around here; it’s the same Twenty Eleven theme I was forced back to yesterday, but the white version. Why? Forums.
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So I’ve mentioned I’d really like to migrate from WordPress to Drupal, for a number of reasons. One of those reasons was that my WordPress has, over time, become gunked up with errors about write access that I kind of understand but have been unable to resolve. Particularly, the awesome automatic updating of WordPress and its plugins had ceased to work, and every update had to be applied manually, which was never going to happen. I was hoping starting from scratch with Drupal would let me keep everything running smoothly.
Turns out it may not be necessary.
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Done! Exams are done! University is done! It’s all over! I’m FREE!
Now I can finally get to work. There’s so much to do! I suspect I’ll be a little bit giddy around here for a week or so, since I’ve been looking forward to fixing this place up for some time now. So welcome everyone, and if it looks like a bit of a ghost town, look again in a week. Below is a list of the things I’ve got planned for the next few months:
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Just dropping by with a quick note that Artemoids is now available on Softpedia!
I was entirely unaware of this until I received an email this morning telling me as much, and honestly I don’t understand why, but hey! If someone enjoyed it enough to bother submitting it, then I’m not complaining! Then again, it’s listed…
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Urgh. I’ve been sick for the past week and a half, descending into a feverous chest infection, and just now starting to improve. Unfortunately a whole pile of work has stacked up, so I’m not going to be nearly as active as I would have liked to be 
. Just letting you know on the off chance you were hanging out for some amazing updates. I’ll be back eventually, but not for a while.
I’m also considering migrating this site to another CMS (Drupal 7 is looking quite suitable), but there’s lots of research and decisions to make before then. Excitement!
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You’ll all be glad to hear skiing was a success, and that I’m back behind the wheel. Unfortunately (for this site, at least), I’m also back to another semester of university, so I won’t have nearly as much time to update things as I have in the past month. The silver lining is that I’ll be learning a whole bunch of exciting, new (hopefully) things about software engineering and Web development which will make me more productive (and interesting) in the future.
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As you may have noticed if you got as far as reading this post, I recently mashed my fist against the WordPress settings and plugins pages until the site bent to my iron will. It will now display only the excerpts of posts instead of full articles on all pages except those of the individual posts. Hopefully this makes the side more readable, as I have posted and intend to continue posting some pretty long articles.
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So it’s now well into February, when I’m supposed to have transitioned out of IBM mode and into personal progress mode. To an extent I have, but it’s going entirely undocumented as it always has, despite the whole point of this site being to remedy this situation.
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