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I have been very remiss in the upkeep of this blog, as my last entry is somewhere in the vicinity of 2 months old. At the very least, I have involved myself in the time-suck that is Twitter. While my followers do not top 5000, like some, I have managed 36 suckers followers to date. Twitter seems easier to update and keep up-to-date with, as it is real-time and you receive real-time feedback.

That said, there are a few improvements I'd like to make to my blog, mainly implementing nothingmuch's 'graceful degrading of gists' (and its subsequent follow-up).  From there, I'd like to get a barebones Catalyst+KiokuDB blog up to at least take my old posts and render it to static HTML, working on the admin interface as necessary.

I also plan to make improvements to twirssi and create a 'fbirssi' for Facebook updates.

We'll see how much free time I have once I start my new job November 10th. Leaving my current position means I may cease contributing to SNMP-Info & netdisco (and also rendering my netdiscoX / snmp-infoX github projects moot), if for no other reason than I won't be doing network programming any longer and won't have a test bed (or a vested interest).  I am still trudging through SQLT2 (from GSoC), attempting to get it to pass SQLT1 tests.

This post is more writing typing my ADD thoughts down somewhere. There are many 'projects' I'd like to do, if had the time and/or [self-]motivation to do them. I've created github repos for most of them. I'm also posting these ideas to get feedback and/or receive help from others.

• rewrite netdisco [github]
  

currently, it uses Parallel::ForkManager (back-end), HTML-Mason (front-end) and its own quasi-orm. I'd like to rewrite it using Moose, POE, Catalyst (with TT or HTML-Mason) and DBIx::Class

• rewrite SNMP-Info [github]
  

currently, it uses AUTOLOAD and various other 'old' perl OO. I'd like to rewrite it using Moose and potentially POE::Component::SNMP, as I'd like to be able to use callbacks

• create a Movable Type 'clone' [github]

I currently use Movable Type to power my blog. I like it, but not it's CGI nor its mish-mash of SSI, PHP, etc. I'd like to create a Catalyst blog engine, similar to Movable Type.  I originally started hacking on Angerwhale, but per the advice of its original author, I stopped.

I'm sure I'll get asked why I want to rewrite all these tools that function already and do the job they were intended to do. Part of the answer is, all of them don't do something I want in one way or another or are difficult to expand upon. Another part is that it'd be nice to bring them into enlightened perl. And, as I'm sure for any other developer, there is a certain amount of NIH and wanting to create something to put your name on.

well, after discussion, I have decided not to patch angerwhale any further and start my own blog based on catalyst. I'll be dogfooding it here (and perhaps my other domains). This should be an interesting project to learn Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class and KiokuDB. Hopefully I can get this done alongside my GSoC project and my aspirations for a Moosified/POE/DBIx::Class netdisco (and eventually SNMP::Info).