Its been a little quiet here lately. Its kinda interesting that after blogging virtually every day for a month, and sometimes multiple times a day, Ive somehow fallen into the pattern of once every other day. While this is probably much more distressing to me than it is to my few readers, I promise Im going to strive to do better Whether you really want me to or not!
In reality, its not like Ive been slacking off. Well, at least not that much. After wrapping up exams last week, I switched my main focus to wrapping up design on the new layout for my Lyrics site. Thankfully, Im about 80% (maybe a little more) done with that project, and soon Ill be able to release the totally redesigned site and wait for people to break some of the new features Im adding. I know this re-design has been way over due. Since I never expected this site to become public, much less for this many people to start using it, I never really made the design all it could be”?. With any luck, Ill have rectified this situation by the end of the week.
My big project for this summer is still going to be Trekkies. Ive got the entire design worked out. Now its just a matter of actually getting together with Drew (my partner in Trekkies crime) and getting the code banged out. Since weve done most of the work already, the first stages will merely be code cleanup. Weve both learned a lot about PHP since we started working on Trekkies, so we know there are some much better ways to do things. Among other improvements, Im adding a MySQL class that Ive come to rely on heavily, and were going to re-structure the way all the pages pass data to each other.
After having looked at some of the code that runs this Wordpress blog youre reading now, as well as some of the code behind the Mantis bug tracker and phpMyAdmin, I think Ive decided on some better ways to maintain code and modularity in general. Since Ive also made some incredible improvements to my standard code package (headers, footers, database support, etc.) since Trekkies stopped development last year, this should be an exciting period, and it should go by rather quickly.
After the cleanup, well have to get back to the fact that I never finished the Tactical system. Thanks to MySQL classes and functions, however, this shouldnt be nearly as big a deal as I thought it was at first. Those of you who have been waiting should definitely expect a beta by the end of the summer (that being August when schools start back).
I realize Im getting more techie and code-related on my blog as of late, but you guys will get over it. I know there are some readers out there who will appreciate this more equal mix of topics, so I figured Id have some fun.