Been A While · 10 January 2008, 00:11
Okay, so you may be wondering where I’ve disappeared to and where the hell this new site is hiding as well. Progress on the MA site and where I’ve been happen to be directly related: I moved.
I’m now living in a new state, with a new job, and far far fewer free hours than I previously had. The nightmare that is interstate moving effectively put a freeze on coding the site, and since getting set up at my new place, my dev machine has been a bit quirky (plus, who wants to work on a 4 year old machine when you have a new macbook pro from work to play with?).
That being said, the project is not dead, but I may have to rescope and rethink how I’m going to deliver the site. My major hold up is that I’ve never built a search engine before, and I don’t know enough about Django/Python to just crank it out. The underlying system to power the site is pretty much there (I think), but search really is the killer app here, so progress really is stunted. Add in the full work schedule and a few left over freelance bits, and yeah… talk about back-burner.
Aside from the technoid details, I have to say living outside of the morridor is as amazingly refreshing as I remembered it to be. Having a drink with your meal, expressing a liberal thought or simply acting like a sane human being without fear of judgment or reprisal is a very nice thing, indeed.