I never thought this design would actually get live. But, here we are, cruising on the newest version of tumbledry. 14.0beta. Why beta? There are still things to add, sections to open, and a lot of coding to be done. I hope to be done in one week. Here is what you can expect:
Fully working calendar features (it’s 90% working now)
QuickMail will return
Tags! I’m most excited about these (see description in post below)
RSS - if you don’t know what this is, you probably aren’t missing it, but it will be there for each section of the website
The imageLog - very very excited about this; working very hard to get this ready, complete with a backlog of 50+ images from the past couple of months
20% more tumbledry goodness
That’s it for now - not much time to write updates when I’m so busy coding! Thanks for sticking with me through this extended silence on my online home - this recode from the ground up has given me an opportunity to make some great things happen. Do note that commenting will now be enabled on all aspects of the website - so don’t hesitate to comment on my “visits” links, the quotes I plan on adding soon, and the images that are forthcoming.
You’ll just have to keep stopping by to see what’s new. Welcome aboard.
I have not died. Rather, I am spending every free moment of my time recoding tumbledry to better serve everyone’s needs. What does recode mean?
Well.
Everything is brand new from top to bottom. New database, new front end (the part you see), spanking new page design, new back end (the part I see), every line of code revised or rewritten. I’ve gone through so many iterations of the design it makes my head spin, and have written about 3500 lines of code.
The new site will feature comments on any links, posts, and images added to the site. Images, you say? Why yes, there will be a daily image on tumbledry now. Every day, a new image, plain and simple. The site will also feature “tags.” That is, bits of text that identify information. The picture I took while at the theater to see “You, Me, And Everyone We Know” will be tagged with that movie’s name, as will my link to the review of it, and the post about my impression of it. So, information will be organized much better.
Comments are turned off because this is all running on the old database, and anything new that you say or I say needs to be moved over by hand to the new site. This is extra work I do not need.
Thank you for your loyal support and visits, and you will see the new version of tumbledry in two weeks at the most. I am looking forward to a long discussion about the redesign.
Keyboard with tiny screens for each key - The Optimus keyboard is an incredibly useful keyboard evolution - but 200-300 as the projected price? That better be lower. As a a commentor points out:
“Very nice and perhaps useful for some professions, but as a consumer I’d have to say they’re missing my budget for next year’s keyboard expenditures by an entire decimal place.”
Atari Video Music - This would be a perfect compliment to music at parties: “these AVM patterns were not a subtle blend of colors and shapes morphing together that you’d have playing in the background of your mellow 70’s cocktail party. Instead, the AVM produced an onslaught of spastic pulsing patterns that gyrated at an eye-numbing speed across the TV. The patterns are comparable to the seizure-inducing anime from the 90’s that sent a whole nation of Japanese kids into an upchucking frenzy.”
F-Train: On Insurance - If I could choose a way to write, this would be it. They say every great writer has a deep pain, an inner unrest; I don’t know if that is true of Paul Ford, but if inner pain is correlated to quality of writing, his must be very great.