Jeff

progress

I am almost done with all of the rewriting. It all exists on my laptop, but I have been taking some time off from working on it during my commute (burn out, heh). I am mostly through the gallery, I have a short TODO that I need to get at least somewhat through before I am happy with moving it to the real world. I mostly need to clean up some of the behaviors in the gallery and cover some of the cases I am not covering in my first iteration. Right now they just bomb suicidally :(.

In other news, we have everything (or almost everything) booked for Hawaii. Both hotels are now booked, as are flights, and arrangements are all made. Just need to book some rental cars and it should be all wrapped up. I still need to finish my taxes too :(. I should really put down a real life/long term TODO and wrap my thoughts all up. I will probably start cleaning up some old entries on this in the process I need to go through while cleaning up the old markup. I want to make this a bit less personal (as in some of the random entries should be scrapped and probably clean up some of the random tags/expand them with more posts).

great success

So I have been working on the rework of the journal side of the site on my development version (I get to carry it with me and work on the train commute very day, so much progress gets made). I have finished the first go through of the Journal stuff. Most of the desired functionality is there, have a few loose ends that may need tying up before I release it on the world. (I also need to spend some time and change old entries to use markdown). But it is super snazzy. I will probably wait on the last bits until the end of my development cycle.

I am moving onto doing all of the gallery stuff. This will be a lot more work in terms of infrastructure, I need to do the web services and admin stuff and then begin working on the frontend interface. I have the main “design” worked out, I just need to begin working on the implementation of all of it. The good news is that a lot of the framework that it will use has been written, so hopefully that won’t take any debugging. I do need to migrate the admin code over to use the new versions of some of the stuff. Reading through the admin code is painful after seeing some things I have fixed recently.

best practices

So this weekend I setup a development version and scripted the action of setting it up (so now I can setup a development version wherever I am working, which means I can type in a few lines and have a clone of the development version of this site running) and have begun putting together the big changes in the framework in this version. But this also means that this site (the real one) will be stable and not get experimented on while I am writing new stuff. So go me! (also, this is long overdue, the fresh out of college Jeff really was slacking). I have a number of things in the works, this will probably be a long term project because of the level of rewriting and the amount of framework this will require, but it should turn out pretty nice when it is all done.

In other news, this weekend we got engagement photos. I don’t know who all knew about these, so it will probably be a surprise for a fair number of people. It was nice to go around downtown instead of hanging in the ‘burbs on a weekend. I wanted to take Kim to the Doughnut Vault, but it had a giant line. I figured it would be a short line on the weekend with most people not at work, but I was wrong. I will probably write more this week as I will be developing a lot more (esp with everything being in a fairly clean setup). I have a lot of design to do, but LESS is pretty B.A. I also will probably try to make the move to Markdown sometime at least in the development version. Then spend a long night going over my old posts and migrating to the better markup format.