Site update
Just a short update post. I’ve updated my about page to fit in line with the redesign.
Future entries
In the past, I have never really had much of a focus or a plan for this site. FullyIndependent was really little more than an aside, a chance for me to play around with web development. For example, the CMS that I wrote from scratch for the old site was more a proof of concept than anything else. At that time, Wordpress didn’t exist which gave me a chance to design and develop a CMS from the ground up. In many ways, I was quite fortunate as it gave me an ideal opportunity to explore web development on a LAMP platform.
Developing such a system from the ground up gave me experience in thinking about the underlying design of such a site. I wrote code to handle the templating so as to seperate content from function and code to parse and output xml. I wrote the code to handle to interact with the DB as well as code to validate and parse input/output for security. I also developed a functional frontend to handle the posting and maintainance of the site.
However, in terms of actual content for readers, there was a very noticable lack of updates which ultimately stemmed from a lack of focus. I wasn’t really sure which direction I was going to push the site and in the end, the quantity and quality of the content suffered as it became little more than a sporadic series of ‘look at this link’ posts. To which end, I’ve decided that this time round will be different. Updates are likely to still be fairly sporadic but the overall quality of the posts should be better. There’ll be less random link posts as hopefully, my pseudo-linkblog, if..else, should handle that avenue. Instead, the content here will be focused more on longer entries of a technical bias.
Whether this comes to pass, of course, remains to be seen but fingers crossed:-)