WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT

After the collapse of Diary-X, I figured that I would move all of my stuff onto my personal site at stephendeken.com, and manage my journal using AfterWords. There were two small problems with this, though:

1. During all of the retardation surrounding the collapse of Diary-X, it seems as though I forgot to renew stephendeken.com, so now a domain squatter has it.
2. AfterWords, the successor to the Journaling Script and my own personal MovableType killer, still isn’t in working order — despite my having promised a working version of it by January 2006.

Oops.

So, for the last few months, I have been tirelessly working on AfterWords. I’ve actually ripped a large amount of the work I’d done on it out over the last few months, and now I’ve got a fairly stable system that’s just a bit rough around the edges.

What I’ve done is rip out all of the DiaryX:: and Dizzy:: modules (upon which AfterWords was formerly based), and replace them with a similar framework that I’m calling Kudzu. The Kudzu framework handles a lot of the finer points of creating a web application like AfterWords, and it should make it fairly easy to develop, test, and deploy applications going forward.

I would be remiss if I did not thank my wife, who for the last month and a half has put up with not having a husband while I was busy trying to get Perl to do what I wanted.

I’ve got a bug list the size of a man’s head to sort out still, and lots of things (such as, um, comments) still aren’t working, but hey — I can type and save an entry, and that’s something, right?

Lots more to come, so stay tuned.