Holy Cow, A Post!
By Sean Hagen
November 12, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Part of the reason that I've held back from posting is that there are a few more things that I'd like to get done before I start posting regularly. The first two are plugins for the Dojo Rich Text Editor. One is a Wordpress-style image uploader/editor. The current image uploader doesn't give you any control over how the image is placed, or whether or not there's a caption. The other plugin is a 'code-to-colour-highlighted-code' thing. This would allow me to post code on my blog, and have it look nice and pretty for all you readers. That second one is kind of crucial, because I have quite a few code snippets ( including a tutorial on how to write plugins for the Dojo RTE ) that I'd like to put up here.
Another thing I'd like to do is introduce tags and/or categories to my posts. I'd like to start posting about a few specific subjects ( mostly random stuff, gaming, and programming ), and it'd be nice if I could give people the option of only reading through one category if they so choose.
The last thing I'd like to add is the ability to attach files to projects ( and posts ). This would be nice if say, I wrote a tiny demo game to show off a coding concept or what-have-you. Instead of having to muck about with FTP and all that, I'd have a email-style 'Attach a file' option for projects and posts.
One last upgrade for the site isn't a code thing, but a hardware thing. I've been noticing that my site seems to have gotten a lot slower recently. I think there are two parts to this problem. The first is Zend, which ( while so very awesome ) is kind of slow at times, due to all the work that has to be done every time a pageload is done. The second is the server hardware itself. Currently my site is being hosted by IPower, and I've gotten fed up with them. It's not just my site that's slow, either, my buddy Paul has been having the same problems. I even see the same slowdown in the admin panel for my site ( the one provided by my webhost, not one I wrote myself ). I'm going to be moving to Rackspace's cloud servers sometime soon, which should help things speed up a bit. Once things have been moved over, I'm also going to take a look at adding memcached and ngix to my site, to help make the pages load a bit faster.
In any case, I'm going to try and post here more often, because to be honest, I kind of miss writing posts. Twitter is fine for small observations and jokes, but for things that I really want to talk about, a blog post is much better suited. Hopefully, once I get some of those features I outlined above sorted out, I'll start posting on a regular schedule again.
