So far I’ve applied to a few but due to the holiday season only a couple have gotten back to me in a timely manner. I hope to get some word back come the new year, otherwise I’ll be posting from a much more homeless place.

I’m working on a way to automate most of the process and basically get those 3 hours of my time back to put towards other things.

So far I’ve made a base SVN trunk for our Joomla installs. The trunk has a default basic template and a set of our “supported” modules. We currently have a similar setup for our Chambergate product and I’m going to be maintaining our joomla base install. Hopefully the way I’m doing it will make it easier to roll out mass updates for people and also allow us to document a set of static features.

You can check out my default install here

The project is called “I Heart Chinese“, it’s a really neat idea. Teaching Chinese with online flash animations, it’s online learning but in a fun and easy way. So far I’ve been working on the base system, the base system is built around my own database abstraction layer working with ADODB. It’s also using the smarty template engine, no particular reason other than it helps keep the code managable.

I’ll be updating as I write more, but so far it’s hard to show any recognizable progress.

If you want to track my progress (anybody actually read this?) check out http://netriver.nr-dev.com.