Lights Out

The response to us open-sourcing Feather has been great so far, with some contributions, some questions, some comments, all good stuff. And now, thanks to the guys over at ActiveReload, we’ve got a public facing instance of Lighthouse to be able to track bugs, issues and feature requests, in both the core code, and the plugins! So if you discover an issue, or want to request a feature, then log it on there at http://feather.lighthouseapp.com and we’ll get to it! If you’d like to tackle the fixing of a bug, or the implementation of a feature, get in contact and we’ll set it up so that we can assign that particular request to you so everyone knows you’re on it!

This should make managing and co-ordinating development a lot easier! Thanks again to the guys at ActiveReload for a great product, and for hooking us up with a free account for our open source project! And thanks to everyone so far who has contributed with code, comments and queries, keep ‘em coming!

Updates

I’ve decided to stick with the static html for this blog, as it has made the site nice and quick, and let’s face it, the content doesn’t change all that often :-p Seriously however, I will be attempting to post a little more often that I have recently, and I’ve now finished a simple command line publishing tool to enable me to blog and push out changes to the site. I’ve made a few changes already, and re-implemented comments using the Disqus comment system (http://www.disqus.com/), so we’ll see how that goes. I’ll be using Twitter for more regular, shorter updates (http://twitter.com/edraper), and am hoping to stick more technical articles up here over the coming months, time allowing.

I’m back

So the regular visitors to blogs.eldiablo.co.uk (if there are any) will have already noticed the redirects in place to ensure all requests to the blog end up at its new home: www.crazycool.co.uk. This will be the new home for my personal blog, so everything from code, to rants, to observations on life and politics. I quite like the new design I stuck together for the blog, and I’m going to be building on it to eventually include widgets for easy access to archives, searching, recent comments, and my personal blogroll.

The blog software itself is a totally overhauled version of Scrawl, and this time its so customizable I can truly do whatever I want with it. I’m going to be testing this for a while longer now my own blog has gone live with it, then I’m going to be throwing it open to a few select people who can run their own sites hosted using it. Then we’ll see where else it goes :-)

Because of the overhaul, I haven’t blogged much recently. I’m going to try and get back in the swing of things with some more regular blogging, especially now I’ve got a kick-ass site to do it on ;-)

Sideways Blinders

So it’s been a long time since my last post - far too fucking long. Lots of shit has happened in the month or so since the last time I bothered to blog anything, so expect a good few catch-up posts. In the meantime, some kind of summary is in order.

Last time I posted I was in the middle of a five-day UML course - it was good, I learnt a lot, but I’m yet to really put any of it to use, and so I’m hoping I’ll find an opportunity to do so (where it makes sense, not where I’m doing it for the sake of doing it). Also, the lack of decent modelling tools makes me chuckle somewhat, all of them are either shite, or are too expensive, claiming to be able to practically write the fucking applications for you based upon a couple of class diagrams. That’s not the purpose I want to use UML for - I want to use it as a way to get down on paper the architecture and structure of libraries and apps that I dream up in my head. It then acts as decent system structure documentation. I then build it myself from that, and undoubtedly because code is code, I’ll realise along the way my original structure wasn’t perfect. I’ll amend, re-think, and re-iterate. Agile development seems to work perfectly hand in hand with this idea, small iterations, tighter development cycles. I’m starting to really dig it.

So what else? Well I’ve moved house now - after what must have been 7 or 8 weeks of playing the solicitor shuffle, I finally moved in with my girlfriend, into the house we bought together. It’s been a very busy time, and I’ve loved every minute of it. I’ve built more furniture in the last few weeks than I ever have done in my previous twenty years combined. We’ve been moved in two and a half weeks now, and there are now no boxes, everything is pretty much tidy now, it’s amazing. Actually scrub that, my girlfriend, Andie, is amazing. I’m responsible for getting TV’s, PC’s, audio systems, broadband, telephones (the easy stuff) up and running, but she has been stunning at tidying, cleaning, getting everything in tip-top shape. I’m a lucky, lucky man.

Speaking of broadband, it took longer than it should (fucking monopolies) to get the phone line up and running, but then I got the broadband sorted out fairly quickly, and so now have a wireless network setup with all my machines up and running again. I hadn’t been able to work on anything for around two weeks, so now I’m edging back into it, tackling a few little things first before I delve headfirst once more into my massive bag of ideas and continue working on a few of the big things I had planned before the move.

That’s it for now, expect more soon.


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Commentary

Ok comments are back - simply look at an individual post on my blog now, and underneath, an “Add Comment” section has appeared. Simply enter your comment (just a simple textbox for now I’m afraid) and who you are, then hit “Comment!”. I’m going to be doing some serious development on the entire software soon and commenting will be done properly - but for now at least it’s an arbitrary way for any readers wishing to comment, to do so.


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