Delays

I'm not going to have much time between now and next week, so it's unlikely that I'll be able to work on my project more until then. I have lots of personal endeavours to attend to!

Technical Details of the New Project

I've been promising my friends that I would work on some super-massive real-time massively multi-player online game for a while now. I've been learning a bit of Node.js, SocketIO, MongoDB and Meteor and have seen some really interesting projects recently (notably the Multiplayer Piano) making use of some of these technologies.

However; the project I am going to work on only requires the very basic things: a web server serving static pages and files, a little bit of JavaScript (none of that jQuery nonsense) and a little bit of PHP. In a way, I feel blessed that I have discovered something, or a way of using something, that nobody has quite thought of yet. This is why I need to get it out there as soon as possible, before someone else has my idea, and has the skill to put it in to motion.

There's something about being first in the technology world, that puts you ahead of someone doing something better. As a perfectionist in the area of web development, I find it difficult to understand. But it's true for so many things. It's also important for you to get your idea out as soon as possible, to find out if it gains general interest, before you waste hours and hours of your life working on something that nobody is ever going to want to use anyway.

Progress

Last night I created a simple two column design for a site that will demo the new technology. The left column does things, and the right column also does things, but it also shows things. Actually, both columns do and show things. You're excited now, right? It even has a colour scheme of pure white.

Sadness

Waking up and finding that she is not by my side hurts, especially after all the great times we spent together. But both knowing how long it is until we see each other again provides me with some comfort.

Distance makes things difficult, but time and distance are supposed to make the heart grow fonder. I definitely miss her more each day so I guess it is true. I wish that during difficult times, of emotional stress and physical struggles, that I could be there for her; to aid her with everything that's going on (she's moving from Norway to the UK by the way, it's quite a big operation!) but alas I am just stuck at work, at my desk, trying to think about work, but actually thinking about my woman, and blogging about her coincidentally... OK not so coincidentally. I miss her so much. She is so special to me. I never want her to be off my mind. Everything I do is for her and for us now, and I love it like that. I love her!

New Project

It has been a tough year, but recently I feel as though I have been blessed. Things are really beginning to work out for me. tl;dr: I got the girl! And she's more than perfect!

Recently, I had an idea for a new project. This time, it doesn't involve any mice or cats or any fancy JavaScript animations. I don't want to reveal too much, for fear of someone stealing my idea, but I will say a few things.

I'm thinking about creating a new 'technology' of sorts. It will be a new way of finding various types of media, based on an advanced tagging or aliasing system of some sort. It will create custom 'collections' of media on the fly and provide relevant results to an end-user very quickly.

It is a technology that could work for many different types of data, and so I believe eventually it could be 'sold off' as a licensed redistributable package. Until then, I will try to produce a few technical demos. My intention is to get something online as soon as I can, and not to faff around too much with fancy user interfaces and excessive AJAX niceties, I'm going to keep it simple and functional for now and build on it if it gains some momentum.

This blog will serve as a development journal for this project and others, and as a place to tell you all about how great my life is! Thanks ;)