Lately many of you have been complaining that I am not updating enough. Well I agree. I've been having a very busy life, and it's been hard to prioritize writing a blog about something that everyone else is writing about. Though that is a cop out. I have original ideas, and they should be at least worth writing about. You don't have to read them if you don't want to. So in order to get my mind in the right place to start writing more, I'm going to whip up a new blog.

This has been in the pipeline for a long time now, probably since before the summer. I've rewritten a functional blog in 3 frameworks as of right now. They are Ruby on Rails, web.py, and Django (Yes, in Django again). The one that was probably the most "fun" was probably Django, but the one that had the most features was actually the web.py implementation. However, this blog is not about features. This blog is about fun. If it wasn't enjoyable, I wouldn't be doing it. And nothing screams fun like Ruby on Rails... So who knows what the next one's framework is going to be in, but one thing I do know is that it's not too important. They are all fast enough in the areas I care about (Development, Deployment, and Delivery). I bet $20 it'll be Django though, as the Django admin interface is money money, yeah yeah.

So lets get to the heart of this post, my goals for the new blog.

Posting

I would like to post ~3 times a week. I'll probably even decide on days of the week of which I will be posting. Writing this blog is something I would like to do at a serious level, and the internet is serious business.

Development

I will hopefully be developing the blog using the experience I gained working as a professional web developer over the summer. You know, branches, release candidates, unit/functional/visual testing, everything. This will help me implement new features and encourage me to make a better blog.

Features

OK fine. You were right, this blog may not be about features but it certainly needs some. So I think I'm going to make sure of the following:

1. Versioned posts. Much like a wiki, every post will have iterations. I want to save those in a database!
2. Feeds everywhere. I'd like it so that comments for a post can be in a feed, each tag has a feed, all that fun stuff.
3. Users. I know that scares you, but I'd like everyone to be able to log in with their openid and participate in some way.
4. Style. The current site just became more of an eyesore the more I looked at it.
5. Images. I can has photo? I need to have an easy way to get a couple pictures that are relevant for each post. Keyword relevant. I don't want just a random "ethnically-balanced" photo of people smiling at the top of every post.
6. Categories. Tags are nice, but my writing needs a little more focus. I'm thinking Arch, Computation, and Life. Arch would be about Archlinux development. Computation would be about computers, technology, that stuff that the ladies find so hot. Life would be a pretty big catch all. Having an Arch category will also encourage me to do more productive things for archlinux instead of being a slow package monkey most of the time.
7. The Stream. This would be a single page that just shows my latest moves on the internet stage. I'm thinking flickr photos, ma.gnolia links, twitter updates, mercurial commits, fun items! Come stalk me!

That's all I can think of right now. If you want to comment on different items I could use to facilitate all these features, it would be helpful. I don't care which framework they are for, I'm a pretty smart guy. I could probably port them to another one if it's not to involved. Also if you have design comments, or things you think I should consider as a more important feature, comment as well.

I was speaking with Tom about which framework to use. It was a great discussion about pros and cons of each, but he's a pretty big ruby on rails supporter, so things got heated. One thing lead to another and I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and she said "You're movin' wth your auntie and uncle in Bel-air". I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licence place said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. I could say that this cab was rare but I thought nah forget it, yo home to bel-air! I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, yo holmes smell ya later! Looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-air.