As many may have noticed I now have a brand new layout and I’m really digging it. It didn’t come with it’s share of problems though and I’ll point them out here.
I started with the base layout, it’s called Aeros it was put together by Joe at thebuckmaster.com.
I didn’t change too much but I did make some changes that I think make this layout a cut above the original.
NetRiver is officially using Joomla as a CMS solution. Because of this I’m working on a way to automate installation and templating from our development team. Currently it takes me about 3 hours of modification to successfully template a Joomla install.
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
I was recently contracted to do work for a fellow goon over at the something awful forums, so far it’s going pretty great.
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.
So I’ve decided to actually make my actual site finally. I haven’t really fleshed it out but I plan to put up details regarding all my current projects and basically just talking about my life and my work as a web developer.
Nobody will be reading this for sure but I’ll make sure to keep whoever wants to know up to date with all the happenings in my travels and the problems I run into while coding my language of choice, PHP.
