Ryan Campbell Flex/Flash Developer Blog

Lets Build a Blog System

Ok so I'm always thinking about new projects to work on and new ways to make money but I never stick with one. I'm sure I'm not alone on this, so many ideas I don't even know where to start. It's also hard to decide when you're unsure which idea will make the most money.

Repeatedly a lot of my ideas revolve around blogs and I've even been getting multiple requests to build blog hosting software. At the same time I also think about giving back to open source. Lately I have been contributing ports to the DarwinPorts Project.

Although I think MovableType is a great start to a blog manager, it definitely lacks in many areas. For example it could use an easier way to change themes/templates, adding plugins and how you content is displayed. So I am going to write a new blog system, might even name at CyberScript (my company name)

Another reason I have decided on this is because I think releasing software for free would be a great way to really show my talent. I have also seem a lot of companies base their business on open source and find that very respectable. Also free software is a great way to get lots of exposure quickly.

Stay tuned for more details on this project as I get further in to planning.

The Fedora Fad

I am starting to really hate Fedora, honestly I see it as nothing more then a toy that I would get bored of within a week. Forced to use it in a production envirorment actually makes my day worse. Who knows, maybe I am just so caught up in the FreeBSD Ports Collection that I am completely missing the positives to using any other OS. I do know though that FreeBSD has never let me down and is a breeze to maintain.

As a web developer I depend on the system I'm using to work correctly. I have my own code problems to solve and should not have to be creating work arounds or spend hours guessing why my code runs different on every machine I install it on. Some might say suck-it-up but if I'm wasting time on something that could be avoided, why not avoid it? It is unproductive and burns me out for the rest of the day.

Anyways.. enough complaining for today..

My First Post

Well this is my first post to my blog, mainly want to just test out how this system works. I've never stuck with writing in one of these in the past but I want to try this time. I think blogs are a cool idea and are already changing who people use for their news sources. Gives everyone an equal opportunity to let their thoughts be heard.

Although this is a great system.. One suggestion I would have for the MovableType developers is to explain further on this "entry body/extended entry" stuff. How do I know how much I should write in the entry body? Does the entire entry body get displayed in my RSS feed? I think the extended entry textarea should be hidden by default. Also why not a browser-based wysiwyg editor? That technology has been around for quite a while now.

Anyways.. I think this is a enough for my first post