Typo: The end is nigh

Not for Typo on a whole, mind you. Just here.

I’m preparing the first sketches on the long-overdue development of my personal site and one of the major components is going to be a completely overhauled blog presentation. And, when that happens, I’ll be switching to Mephisto due to the unnecessary weight of Typo and it’s sluggishness on this shared server.

The new system will employ much AJAX and DHTML goodness. Don’t worry: not a bunch of useless crap. I’m working on the wireframes now for a novel way to look at a blog. Admittedly, there’s not a lot you can do with a blog, but I’m asking questions of myself as to how people really interact with blogs, the differences between posts like this, which are dated and time-specific, and posts for longevity. The result is I think that there should be more user control over what is on the screen at any time, and fortunately JavaScript, CSS and the DOM will let me do that to some extent (at least I hope).

I’ll be using the moo.fx animation framework due to it’s “superlightweight ultratiny” footprint of 3kb, as well as prototype.js. Best of all, I’ll be releasing the finished product for everyone under Creative Commons, so feel free to port it to Typo and Wordpress and the like. I’ll probably break out any custom Flikr or other modules as well.

Should be done sometime between now and the end of time. Stay tuned.

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Job

I need a job. Full time. The fuller the better. The best looking opportunity I’ve seen in some time just slipped away due to the cruel winds of fate.

I’m tired of freelancing (mostly because if I was as bad at making websites as I am at selling them I’d be out of business). I’m willing to relocate. Preferably to San Francisco or Seattle. Hire me! ... current TV, this means you. :)

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Plagiarism

Although many of you may know this, Karthik Kastury of 33rockers.com is a plagiarist, both of the written word and design. His site is ripped off from the Mephisto theme without credit and described as “heavily modified” (it is not), and he has ripped off – verbatim – several blog posts across the internet. I almost expect to see my seminal blog hit “How to get Typo 4.0 running on Dreamhost” on his blog soon.

For more information, see the very detailed expose on Kirk Montgomery’s excellent MaxPower.

Additional note: He’s also a damn liar. Note his Nov. 30 post about how he’s selling the site because of personal reasons. How about because the DMCA complaints cost him his Google AdSense. Thief!

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GravityMusic 4.0 Continues…

For those who just love sneak peaks… here’s one.

Simple is my business, and business is good. Backend dev starts tomorrow in Rails. We’re only a week or so away from first launch. Hope it goes well!

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That’s all she wrote for this night. See you all again soon!