A Small Update

I figured I should provide a small update to the this to say a few things.

1) I am not dead. I'm not sure whether there were any rumors to that effect, but that makes it no less true. I'm still here, and I'm not a zombie (yet..).

2) I've got a few things I'm working on right now and will be posting an extensive review of one of those project tangents at sometime in the near future (I hope....).

3) I've got some other things unrelated to the things above that I will now proceed to write a rambling blurb about. Fun!

First a few things I'm experimenting with now in the land of programming! I've recently discovered a package called 'Wt' (apparently pronounced Witty?), that allows you to implement an entire web application in C++ and wrap it in CSS instead of your traditional PHP/python/ruby/.net based web programming implementations. Why is this a good thing? I'm not sure, but it is neat and I like C++ so I'm a fan. The main page doesn't have much information on it asside from some sample applications and links to the source code for downloading and building. However there's a Wt Wiki that has additional information for the curious at the community wiki.

The system is built around a few different concepts and models. For instance it provides an MVC based structure if you want to go that way. Alternatively you can assemble programs just using widgets directly for displaying content and generating ajax on the fly, that can gracefully degrade all the way down to a form based interaction (with some tweaking and help here and there). That's the claim at least, I havn't played with the feature much.

A second interesting side project I've been plying with is LVM, CLang and CMake mixed together. I have succeeded in getting Clang to run when you invite CMake on a small project (I think...) and may post a quick how to as it's pretty easy.

Anyway that wraps up my assurance that I'm not dead and there will be more to come now that I'm working on things worth writing about again!

Also, no blue pill on this one, sorry it just doesn't fit.