February 03, 2010

Uncertain Thoughts

Sigh.

I'm not a writer.  A lot of the time I have a hard time communicating the most basic conceptual ideas in an effective manner.  When I am able to convert the cross-wired and fleeting thoughts into semantics, it's not as if I come rushing to tell the world about it.  Yet this poor blog still remains.

Mainly it was put together to serve as a proof-of-concept for InkType, the blogging platform which I wrote on which this site runs.  InkType, however, is currently out of commission and will remain so for the foreseeable future.  So... why the blog?

I don't know.

Why are those three words so hard for people to say?  Why do people insist on padding their personae with a safe and soft marshmallow fluff, oftentimes unintentionally embedded with razor blades of naivety, instead of just admitting those three simple words?  Why can't people more easily admit there might be something they just have no idea about?

I don't know.

Nor should I care.  Keyword: should.  Keywords do not always translate to what we have shaped as our individual realities, and maybe it's a good thing they don't.  I suppose self progression might not be such a realistic possibility should we be so quick to accept our perception of reality as the Golden Egg that in my mind we all thrive to seek.  Isn't that what we all chase?  Understanding?  Confirmation from something outside of and beyond our primitive set of ideals which might open our eyes to things unimagined?

Again... I don't know.

I'm not everyman.  Or am I?  Here I sit in a hotel room in Laughlin, Nevada.  There are hundreds of people here, maybe thousands, and here I am.  Should I just give up and admit defeat and join in on this whole "human race" concept?  Hm.  Doesn't sound so appealing to me.  I happily exercise my self-perceived right to choose how I spend my time.  I happily exercise that same self-perceived right to choose who I spend my time with.  I'm good with that.

I'm not everyman.

Yeah.  I'm good with it.

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January 02, 2010

Broken Comments

Apparently the library I wrote for Defensio spam filtering broke somewhere around July or August.  I have a new library in place using Akismet and the comments seem to be functioning once again.
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April 30, 2008

Quick Note

Hi all -

Just wanted to let everybody know I haven't vanished or dropped anything here... things have been super busy @ work and will probably continue to be so for some time, but I'm doing my best to get a new InkType update out along with some new tutorials (Controllers 101 and Views 101 to start), so hang tight!

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December 09, 2007

Welcome to the New Developer13

I have relaunched Developer13.com on my new project called InkType. InkType is a free and open source blogging platform written on CodeIgniter.

The overall goals for InkType are:

  • To create a blogging platform comparable to Wordpress in terms of features and support
  • To create a top notch blogging platform on CI for us CI addicts
  • To spark more interest in CI and the Community through interest in InkType

My hope is that the CodeIgniter community will become involved with the project to make it as kick-ass as I envision it being.

I plan to have the alpha version ready for you to download within the next few days. Until then, here are a couple of screenshots of the back end:

The Dashboard

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Writing a Post

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