Back Burner Projects

I'm currently in hurry-up-and-wait phase and rather than go back and edit yet-another-script I'm working on, I thought I'd make a short post about the projects I'm hoping to work on, but I haven't got time for just now.

Blog Reload

The first major project I'm working on is my blog reload. I've posted an early version of that here
previously. The development version is quite a bit further than the published version is, but I've reached that point where I can't really release anything until I tie up some loose ends (e.g., I have a blog component on it, but no comment component).

This one also happens to be the base tool I'm using to work on another project...

Gentle Birth Doula Services

A friend of ours, Rachel, recently started a web site
to go with her new hobby/business. She's taken the training and now either very close to or already officially licensed as a doula.

For those unfamiliar with modern labor and delivery practices, many people now hire an additional helper for labor and delivery called a doula. A doula is not a nurse, but just someone with knowledge of the birth process that can give aid to the mother during the process beyond what care is provided by the birthing center or hospital nurses. (For example, being available prior to going to the hospital.) Actually, that's just my understanding and I'm probably off a bit.

Anyway, Terri and I are helping her fix up her new web site. I'm going to give her the software I'm using to build my web site reload and then work with her and Terri to make it look better.

Sermon Illustrations

A few months ago a pastor, Monte, in North Carolina contacted me out of the blue about the possibility of starting a web site for collecting sermon illustrations ala social networking. It's a good idea and I'm still interested in it, but it's stalled out. I hope to make some time for it over the next few months. We'll see.

Jifty Book

I caught Chromatic and Jesse Vincent at OSCON and I suggested that Jifty really needs a book. I'm slowly working through a table of contents for it. I'm also hoping to get some time for it in the near future to get back to work on that idea. I really like writing and would love to do that more.

Software Ideas for IRC Bot Nets and POE

Something I've been building at work as sparked my interest and I'd like to combine somethings I've learned from using Jifty and from using POE to build an IRC Bot Net to build a better tool for building Bot Nets for various things. I've had a fascination with multi-agent systems since I took a course on the subject during grad school and I'd like to apply some of my knowledge from there as well (i.e., designing robust multi-agent communication protocols).

If I could, I would like to publish an article on the subject, but my previous outlet for such, OnLamp.com, may not be accepting articles of that kind anymore since their trying to produce higher quality content.

Expansion of Contentment

I'm thinking about ideas of taking this blog to the next level. I'd kind of like to expand it beyond just me and get other authors posting here. What that looks like, I don't know, but I'm thinking of possibly making it into a place where Christians working in web, design, and IT can get together to talk about what they're doing and what Christian Service in the modern workplace looks like.

Okay, looks like my tests have finished baking, so I need to go back to previously scheduled overtime.

Cheers.