Apr 09
30
Random Thoughts for the Day
Although I haven’t had a lot of computer time lately, I’ve really been enjoying the new Ubuntu. It seems to run better than the version I had to drop and I haven’t missed Windows at all this time. Wine is finally working for me this time around and I’m currently installing Eve Online. We’ll see if that works out or not here shortly.
I’ve had way more time to think about Clay than to actually work on it this month. One of my bad habits is to never let something fully materialize before I begin redoing it. Clay has kind of fallen victim to my bad habit. Luckily this time I’ve done more thinking than redoing. So, one of my priorities right now is to write up a road map for Clay 1.0 and decide how to step it up from 1.x to the new ideas for Clay 2.0. One of the things I have to keep reminding myself is that Clay is a framework, not a CMS. My focus is currently 90% framework (libraries, modules), 10% applications available. As Clay matures, during the 1.x phases for instance, I’ll shift the focus more to applications.
I want to get into desktop software development. I’ve looked at a few languages and I don’t feel like I’ve learned enough PHP to begin splitting my time just yet. One thing I’ve considered is adding PHP-GTK support to Clay, or perhaps just creating a new version of Clay specifically for PHP-GTK. Just a thought, but I think it could be a pretty good thought 
That’s it for now… sleepy time for me.