Project: Complete. Bottle: Empty
Posted: 01/22/2008 12:31 AM
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Tags: development personal
I'd like to welcome you to my new weblog page! I'm publishing this entry from my new hand-rolled weblog editor, which has been far too long in coming.
I'm rather proud of this new version - it's a vast improvement over my last weblogging utility (in production from late 2005 until last night) and for one thing gives me freedom to publish images and things like those YouTube widgets.
You'll have to pardon the spartan aesthetic I've got going on here! The reason the page looks so austere at present (future viewers: black text on a white background and no images), is that I'm working on making the look-and-feel editable on the fly from the editor.
The reason this project took me so darn long (almost 2 years) is that I was using the project to get hands-on experience with a bunch of new concepts I was learning during that timespan. Before too long, the project became moderately complex, and I found myself faced with a few architectural quandries that, quite frankly, made me queasy. Hence, I took long "sabbaticals" in between weeklong bouts of furious coding. :-)
Anyway, more later! It's late, but there's still time to savor on this Martin Luther King Jr.'s Day holiday.
Oh, and P.S., I converted most of the rest of my website to ASP.Net pages as well... There are a couple of links missing from the code toolbox page (AJAXGrid and RssAggregator) but I will have those patched up very soon. Fixed!