Starting to look at getting my http://ninecrows.com base URL pointed at my landing page wordpress instance at http://ninecrows.com/landingpage (artwork to support the landing page will come later).

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I’ve been reading (and buying in kindle form) a bunch of material related to the front end of web development. I can created serviceable web forms and simple applications but I want to take this up a notch or two.

3D programming is also on my (often too long) list at the moment. This covers a huge range and I’m not sure where I’ll wind up looking first. A full OpenGL implementation with a RESTful back end into the PHP site is a possibility. An android app using OpenGL ES is also possible. Probably easiest (and thus most immediately likely) would be a WebGL implementation (thus the focus on javascript and related bits).

I would like to get the site landing page roughed out and in place this weekend. Currently http://ninecrows.com just drops you on a plain HTML page with text on a background and some links. I know mod-rewrite rules can re-point that reference to a sub-folder. I have installed a target to catch those requests and expect to configure this to serve static wordpress pages. If all goes well, I’ll have something in place there by Tuesday.

I’ve fleshed out and enhanced the book shelf area. Still not particularly structured but it now has thumbnails for all of the books and I’ve added comments on more of them. I still need to add comments to much of the newer material and perhaps rearrange the lists to be more usable. It have been an interesting dive into my books list as I ran across a few items that I had bought out of curiosity and never found the time to give real attention to. I’ll have to remedy that soon.

I want to tackle the ‘things I’ve worked with’ list on this blog next. It is currently just an expanded version of the key word list from my resume. It needs expanding (and I guess my resume list needs expanding as well then) and it needs organizing. I think I may go to a category based setup with ‘languages’, ‘operating systems’, process and such.

Sandbox projects keep getting postponed due to work and life time crunches. Not looking much better in the near term future, but I’m going to hold out hope.

Just grabbed a copy of ‘Building web apps with WordPress’ for my kindle app. I’m really looking seriously at building shared information applications with my site in the middle. I need to substantially improve my command of the UI side of web apps and this looks like it may hit that and some of the back end issues that would help me get leverage from WordPress rather than writing code from scratch.