So, I was looking around a bit today when I realized that I haven’t made a post since the last day of August of this year! I’d suggest that it’s because I’ve been busy, but the reality of it is that I’ve been very distracted. There’s a lot of good stuff coming down the turnpike, which I’ll post about soon, but for now I’ll just offer a fairly simple update.

First, I’ve been spending a great deal of time playing around with NodeJS, which I’ve come to greatly appreciate. I suspect it’s the PHP of this decade, minus many of the blemishes and with some idiosyncrasies that are cause for some confusion. Although I have mixed feelings about JavaScript, NodeJS has done quite a few things right. As an asynchronous framework, it feels fairly solid for its youth, and as much as I love Twisted, continuation-passing is a much easier beast to wrap one’s mind around than deferreds. Of course, deferreds do eventually click–they just feel far more awkward at first blush.

Second, I’ve got a few work-related and personal projects that will eventually be seeing the light of day within the next month or two. We’ve got a lot of stuff planned, including a few things that could be life changing for many of you. I’m not about to let you in on any of the secrets, though, so you’ll just have to wait. I promise that they’re going to be pretty awesome.

Finally, I’ve been playing quite a lot of Minecraft since 1.0 was released on the 18th of November. I’ve had the game for almost a year–maybe even a year, I can’t really remember without looking at some receipts–and it’s become a very enjoyable hobby to relax with. Speaking of NodeJS, I also have a NodeJS project that’s Node-related, but it’s still in the planning phase for now. It won’t be usable to anyone who doesn’t run a Minecraft server (or have Node). You’re going to appreciate it, I think!

Anyway, apologies for the few months of silence here, but I’ve been pretty busy. Oh, and I had a really horrible cold/flu a few weeks back, so that really set me back.

Cheers!

Apologies for the downtime, everyone.

I was in the process of updating my server and inadvertently copied over an older instance of MySQL thinking that the one I had actually installed was the older instance. I spotted the problem after about a half hour, but because I had already begun the process of restoring other files, I didn’t have a chance to make the correct update until about an hour ago.

I definitely won’t be doing that again!

Yeah, I thought it was a bit ridiculous, too.

I was reading this piece on Slashdot a couple of days ago, slightly infuriated, because I’ve actually had very few issues running Windows 7–with some exceptions. I’m glad that Ars Technica has come out to set the record straight.

UPDATE

Turns out that there’s some speculation the individual who brought the memory issues to the forefront is a fraud.

Anyway, look forward to seeing another link of the week in a few days. I’ve been getting caught up with a couple of things, including a personal project in my free time that might be of interest (more on that in another post). Actually, I have several; there’s one in particular that I’ve found rather captivating. Stay tuned! If I get around to it, I’ll post a little tomorrow.