Greetings friends. Welcome to Peaxal, again. I’d like to discuss some of the changes and design decisions I made on this blog over the course of the week, but now the topic will be “heading into the future”.
Peaxal as a blog and a website is changed, becoming more personal and helpful at the same time. With my role at Blue Flavor I can blog about more professional topics on Blue Flavor’s blog, and really get into odd scary territory here.
Where the fuck were you?
For those of you who have been here before, I’m not apologizing. While moving apartments and taking on a new job at the illustrious Blue Flavor, I had a change of heart about this blog. I wanted to take Peaxal in a different direction and have it under my full control. So I spent some time creating a design made by me in ExpressionEngine and an ideology ripped from the gutter from which my mind spends its days.
So, what’s this plan you speak of?
The plan, you say! The plan!!
There is now a larger scheme at work here. You see that image all grayed out in the top right corner. That’s my Django series, and it’s launching on the Django 1.0 release date. I’ve been learning Python and learning Django at the same time. While I find both systems beautiful, I feel like I can add a resource or two for those who want to pick up on the topics.
My proposal is this, a series of tutorials/articles on building an actual (to be used) Django site as I go along. Although, it’s not so much a proposal as an “it’s happening”, but blogs are supposed to be personal and full of community even though I probably wouldn’t like most of you. There will be a prologue to it as well, covering the bases of the Python language. While I can’t require you to go out and read about Python before you begin Django, I recommend it. I know plenty of great developers who have done just fine without it. Learning language mechanics is great, but diving into something is even more rewarding and important. I just want to make sure you don’t look like a chicken with its head cut-off. Which is just silly. I mean, how is it going to eat? I have no idea. Stuff food down its open throat with it’s wings? Ridiculous.
So you’re just going to blog about Django?
No. The blog part of this site will actually be a separate entity then the article series. That’s why I made a fancy graphic and why you need to bugger the fuck off. No, I’m just kidding sweety. I want to make sure that my blog and the Django series (as well as future series) are considered separate. ExpressionEngine in its might glory allows this. This blog will become random and odd, discussing everything from mac applications to sandwiches to development. The Django series, more focused.
Anything else we should know about?
Yes. I’m pregnant. I’ve been meaning to tell you, but I didn’t want to scare you away.
Also, since you asked, I’m working on something I hope will play a larger part in the internet’s future. Now, if that’s not bold, then perhaps you need to press CTRL + B on it (or COMMAND + B for my Mac buddies) to make yourself feel better. It needs a bit of revision, but you should hear something in the next few weeks. It could sputter out like the French Olympic Team’s 400m relay hopes, but as when you build anything you think can change, it might make a small difference.
It is not a web application or something web 2.0. It doesn’t require a revenue model or a business plan. It’s not a business.
That’s pretty vague, asshole.
Yeah… well… your face is pretty stupid… stupid-face! (High-Fives best friend Tad)
So you did this all by yourself?
Of course not, one of the benefits of working at Blue Flavor (other then the requisite “I heart Blue Flavor” coffee mug) is getting to make others slave away for you! In this case, big props go out to Tom Watson for helping me figure out some navigation issues, and Jeff Croft for his design insight (coincidentally into navigation issues).
That’s not to say Jeff designed it or Tom did the IA. That was all me. They fixed a very broken shed and made it less… brokeny? So thank you to them for just being spectacular, intelligent people and knowing their shit, but don’t take this design as a reflection of their professional merit… Blue Flavor: Looking for clients.
No more flaking out, ok, and why do you have these imaginary conversation with a fictitious audience in the form of headings
Because span’s seemed less semantic?
So, ambiguous reader, welcome.
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