Alive and well
Well more or less that is.
It's amazing how fast the year passed by. I'm constantly wishing that time passed like I remembered as a kid. Remember when it seemed a week lasted forever, you couldn't wait to get to the week-ends or to the vacations or the holidays? And it just took forever to get there, and now, bam, week-ends fly by, vacations and holidays come and pass, and we just get older. Damn, it's a little depressing and not the tangent I wanted to go on.
If you've read my LJ before you might know I work as a web developer for a small media news group. The last couple years, probably longer, I've been working on my own CMS to manage our sites. It started out as a pet project and about a year ago the Director of IT lent one of his employee's as well as his expertise and we retooled many things focus the project in hopes to use it on our family of sites not as a stand alone but a multi-site CMS. It has really become a pseudo framing engine, probably somewhere between CAKE and Symphony.
This month we release JARGON in a beta on a couple of our smaller sites. So far it's worked out well. We hope by the end of the year to roll out to the remaining core. We expect to probably spend another 6 months rolling out new modules and upgrading the system as we get new servers and upgraded LAMP set ups.
But if you've ever worked on a big project you know how it exhilarating it is to get to a release level. I probably could have done it on my own, but honestly without the help and work allowing me to dedicate time to the pet project by the time I got done it would have been antiquated. Plus it allowed me to get passed the constant reboots. You know when you develop out to a certain point and then scrap it because you know you should have gone a different direction. With John, Anders and myself (Ron) we got the "Engine" project to the next level.
So that's my work for the next few months, getting JARGON fully launched and expanding and improving it.
I hope I'll find time to write some stories and draw some comic strips, too. More on that later though.
I"m alive and for the most part well.
It's amazing how fast the year passed by. I'm constantly wishing that time passed like I remembered as a kid. Remember when it seemed a week lasted forever, you couldn't wait to get to the week-ends or to the vacations or the holidays? And it just took forever to get there, and now, bam, week-ends fly by, vacations and holidays come and pass, and we just get older. Damn, it's a little depressing and not the tangent I wanted to go on.
If you've read my LJ before you might know I work as a web developer for a small media news group. The last couple years, probably longer, I've been working on my own CMS to manage our sites. It started out as a pet project and about a year ago the Director of IT lent one of his employee's as well as his expertise and we retooled many things focus the project in hopes to use it on our family of sites not as a stand alone but a multi-site CMS. It has really become a pseudo framing engine, probably somewhere between CAKE and Symphony.
This month we release JARGON in a beta on a couple of our smaller sites. So far it's worked out well. We hope by the end of the year to roll out to the remaining core. We expect to probably spend another 6 months rolling out new modules and upgrading the system as we get new servers and upgraded LAMP set ups.
But if you've ever worked on a big project you know how it exhilarating it is to get to a release level. I probably could have done it on my own, but honestly without the help and work allowing me to dedicate time to the pet project by the time I got done it would have been antiquated. Plus it allowed me to get passed the constant reboots. You know when you develop out to a certain point and then scrap it because you know you should have gone a different direction. With John, Anders and myself (Ron) we got the "Engine" project to the next level.
So that's my work for the next few months, getting JARGON fully launched and expanding and improving it.
I hope I'll find time to write some stories and draw some comic strips, too. More on that later though.
I"m alive and for the most part well.