No! Well, yes… Kinda.. Not really. But, yes… Or not quite (yet)?
At the moment i have no idea. In the past 2 or so months i haven’t touched a bit of code that i can remember. I screwed up the last Events update. And didn’t update any of the other plugins with new stuff.
I just can’t get anything done code wise lately. I have no good features to add or even have any ideas to think about other than “bleh i don’t wanna write code”. It’s a sad state of affairs really.
What to do, what to do… I see my plugins are still downloaded a lot. Which is nice. People still ask the same questions. Which is not so nice. I have been working on improved documentation. Someone very very kindly added translationable stuff to one of the plugins. Events i think it was… People have sent in various translations. But i haven’t got around to put them online yet. I cannot come up with a proper system to manage the language files. Even though i could just upload them and put links on a page. That seems so silly and 1999. But adding them all to the plugin by default is messy too.
New features? Yea… like? I’ve looked into some requests and bumped against walls or stupid API designs preventing me from making it happen. So. At the moment the plugins work fine. For the time being i guess we’re fine.
Any ideas are welcome ofcourse. Maybe i’ll see the light soon and pick up coding again. I bought Coda last week… (awesome development tool for code writing) But haven’t really done anything with it since. Well i’ve set it up. But have not used it yet beyond the trial period.
Blah!
by Mihai Ioan
22 Oct 2009 at 11:17
Don’t worry, you’ll see “the light” again :). I get often the Writer’s Block, but it always pass. You’ll have to be patience and just have fun.
by mdr
24 Oct 2009 at 07:57
What about a project like a brand new type of blog/forum idea. . . I’m thinking something not quite fully a blog and not quite fully a forum, each category of the forum would be a category for a blog, permissions could be set up so that newbies could only post replies until they’d earned a specified amount of cred (awarded by other users). Each new thread would be a blog post in itself but would be organized in the backend as a regular forum. Rules could be assigned so, depending on what the admin wanted, some pages would refresh to the top or just right under the newest one or two based on statistics rapidity of response, how long ago the original post was made, or how popular it was for readers/views upon initially being posted. . . It’s raw as far as ideas go but perhaps it’s some food for thought?
by Arnan
24 Oct 2009 at 09:46
That’s kinda like how TUAW has been doing it for years. Also, what would this blog/thing be about?
by mdr
25 Oct 2009 at 09:06
Wouldn’t per se be about anything, it would be a plugin forum system that would revitalize the old bulletin board away from the stand-by category/forum/thread concept and fuse in some of the lessons learned from weblog concepts.
TUAW is not quite what I was thinking, it’s more blog w/ tiny bit of forum thrown in. I was thinking forum w/ a blog-type structure.