Why So Silent?

I've been more than lax of late in posting here. It's not for want of material (for once!), but more for want of time. An acquaintance of mine sent me a message the other day telling me that he missed my movie reviews and liked them very much. This got me thinking about my deliberate choice to stop writing about the movies I had seen and focus more on software development. The trouble with that plan is that when I'm developing software all the time (and I've been cranking out a new app in the past few months), I don't feel like writing about it so much. Thus the lack of postings of late.

So I'll start the movie reviews again, and I've got a bunch of postings in the works about Web application development too. I've been using jQuery of late on my latest project and have some very good and less good things to say about it. (I've also used Script.aculo.us and Ext 1.1 on previous projects too.) I'm developing an API for smarter guidance/help systems in Web applications, so expect a series of postings on that. I've also got to start work on a major overhaul to a major application, focusing on simultaneously expanding the flexibility of the core business object structure to allow for a greater range of functionality while simultaneously improving performance in the face of object instantiation costs in ColdFusion. Maybe it's time to look at Transfer?

So that's the plan. Let's see if I can stick with it.