Jeff

tomorrow night

Tomorrow night, I will be migrating this site to the new code. I just merged all the work into the master branch (this is all source control lingo which just means that the main version of this code is the new stuff) and tomorrow night (Friday) I will be moving to use this new code for this site. I will also be migrating from using Apache to Nginx. I will probably then spend the weekend working on cleaning up the database of stuff and rewriting entries to use my new markup system.

So if you read this (like anyone does anymore), things will be in a state of flux over the course of the weekend. Hopefully everything will be alright by Sunday, but there are no guarantees. After all these changes, everything should be smooth sailing. I plan on getting this running through Gunicorn and a virtualenv. I will then also begin in some of the better practices I am trying out in dev. I really just want to get this stuff out in the wild and off of my laptop. Then I can begin on some of my smaller changes (versus a large project like rewriting everything). Okay, enough babbling, maybe some Minecraft :P

Oh and congrats to Chris on getting a job!

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.