Back from the dead

So late last year I started my other blog over at http://www.unintelligent-design.com, and i’ve been pretty involved in that for some time. As a result, this blog got terribly neglected as I dealt with some poignant albeit non-technical topics such as the presidential elections, some critical pieces on religion and financial crises and whatnot. I apologize to people who have been waiting for new content and I plan on making it up by resuming posting here with renewed vigor. I couldn’t believe that when i came back I discovered this site was still running wordpress 2.5. After some upgrades and a renewed theme which I will attempt to customize, I didn’t have that dirty feeling anymore like I was working on an old beater car that wasn’t worth the upkeep. I realize that some of the code examples were lost as the site got migrated from one server to another and the accompanying code subdomain did not survive the trip. On that note, I would appreciate any recommendations for some good source code viewing plugins for wordpress. The last plugin I used required a lot of effort to render code so I would like something a little more seemless.

The company I work for (eROI) has gotten developing what are affectionately dubbed “slogs” (site-blogs) down to a science. This is essentially the art of using wordpress as a pseudo cms platform where entire sites are constructed that do not resemble blogs. I have not had the opportunity to construct one of these sites personally so I hope to continue to use this particular site as an excuse to explore wordpress experimentation.

For those who are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Silk CMS, my Zend Framework powered cms solution I again apologize and I promise that it’s not vaporware. I had hoped to resume development in February but I’ve been busy working on a very large social networking site for a big client which should be going live pretty soon. My plan was to go back and do a codebase refresh using the latest version of the framework as well as incorporate some better coding techniques i’ve picked up along the way. In the mean time I am considering releasing the current version in it’s current unfinished state as version 0.1 and pave the way for the rewrite and dub it 0.5 . All of this really hinges on how time permits obviously.