Blog Not Needed

It has been a remarkably long time since I’ve posted anything here. I have my excuses, like my day job completely sucking every last bit of energy I have, and only have just enough left over for my real life. I work as a software engineer and consultant for a fast growing consultancy in Boston, and the work has just been coming in fast and furious, and the deadlines have been, well let me just say that they haven’t been entirely realistic (and usually sprung on me while the project is rolling, not before).

Anyway, here I am. I have some breathing room right now, which is why I’m posting. Diysearch has been churning a long quite nicely, no problems, well except for the email server lost all of its account information. So, if you tried to email me or the editor, you most likely got your message bounced back. I’m sorry about that. I fixed the problem last night. I just had to restart the SMTP service, restore the old user database and got it back to a working state.

There are a bunch of new features that I want to get working on, like the ability to watch categories, so that you can get notifications if a particular category you are interested in gets any new links, or links get updated. I want to get the content management system rolled into production. You won’t notice anything with this, it’ll just make life easier on us when we want to modify the “static” content on the site. There are also a bunch of other administration features I need to get implemented to make life easier on the editor (she has a hard enough job, I don’t have to make it harder by not having tools in place to add/remove categories for example).

Diyshare. Ugh. I haven’t touched the code in 3 weeks. Man, I feel really terrible about that. I want so badly to finish that project and get it rolled out in that there really aren’t any shared news/social-networking sights available just for those of us who participate in DIY projects. Yeah, you can do similar things on other sites, but again, its about the focus, not getting lost in the shuffle.

Well, I should be posting more, and actually getting back to working on this project, now that I’ve finished a high-tension project here at work and will have some more energy left over for this stuff. One can hope.