Wednesday, December 29, 2010

New Year's Resolution

After I finish my mp3 project, I decided I would go ahead and take a stab at writing my own blog software for the purpose of hopefully launching my own website. And while I would have done it regardless of the time of year, I figured I'd make it my official resolution for 2011. Here's my dilemma:

Regarding my online blogging identity, I would really like to separate my thoughts into several primary categories (photography, technology, spirituality, politics, etc) so subscribers to a particular area of interest needn't be exposed to content from other areas that they don't care about. This is why I currently have separate blogs for code/tech, photography, and philosophy. However, sometimes those areas mix (for example, there is a lot of technology involved in photography and digital technology has upset the status quo for policy making over the last several decades--there would be a lot of overlap between all of these) and I would like to be able to have some posts appear in multiple blogs without having to copy/paste in multiple editors.

I'm sure there's a more graceful, pre-existing way of meeting this end, but I also want to update myself on new web technologies and give myself some more experience in the process. Plus there's just something gratifying about saying "I did this myself." However, if anyone knows of any pre-existing solutions to problems like mine, I would be interested in looking at them to see their solutions.

Also, after having been in Arizona/Vegas all last week, recent Christmas stuff, and being sick the last couple days, I have made virtually no progress on the mp3 project, and I realize I have yet to explain it in full detail. Soon friends, soon.

Happy 2011

Friday, December 17, 2010

Database Project

I'm a compulsive DIY addict. Which is a bad habit when it comes to coding. There are a lot of other foundations out there that I could learn to use (and which are better than anything I could create), but either for pride or a desire to control everything, I find myself writing as much code from scratch as I can. This is an example.