It’s been another long break here in notsoevil.net land. However, this time I can happily admit that I’ve not been neglecting the place. I have been working on making this quiet place on the net a useful place to keep updated on new music. I realized earlier this year that I am very bad at keeping track of my favorite bands and their new releases. So I started to think about what could be done to fix this.
Naturally, I decided to try and make a website to take care of it for me. And I had a very simplistic mockup all done in php that actually seemed to work (for vague values of “work”). While I was goofing off on the parts I knew how to do, I started looking at frameworks to use for the site. It’s a simple site, so hopefully a framework would help greatly. Initially I looked at CakePHP, and while it looks like a great framework, I realized: I hate php syntax. It’s obnoxious at best. So I decided to go with python and Django. I’m still a long ways from being a python guru, and I have a feeling that a few places of my code are not very in sync with the “best practices” for python. However, it has been pretty easy going. I am very impressed with Django, and python is enjoyable enough I plan on doing some other projects to improve my skill with it.
Anyhow, I’m not trying to be secrative about the new site, but I don’t feel it is quite ready yet for more than just a few eyeballs looking at it. If you happen to be *really* interested, shoot me an email or IM, and I can send you to the right place. I am excited to get it done though. My goal is to get it going by the end of this month at the latest, so hopefully you’ll hear back from me soon.
ps Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006 is a great cd!