@TheKeyboard Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

With summer half over, I’ve realized that I’m just too damn busy during the summer. As a result, my blogging suffers. So, I’ve decided to turn things around and bit and ask my readers what they would like to see in the next month or so.

Using Mint I do get to see what visitors are looking at when they visit, and it’s a mixed bag. Which is good. Many of my tutorials and smaller posts have gotten lots of visits and lots of great feedback. Again, which is good. Feedback lets me know if I’m being clear in what I’m posting. But now I’ve sort of hit a lull and run out of topics. I’m sure nobody wants to read about my struggles at softball or the intricacies of politics in my job. You know, the boring non-technical stuff. Instead, I want to give YOU more of what YOU want.

In the comments, let me know what stuff you’d like to see. Follow-ups to existing tutorials, my thoughts on certain topics, explanations on other things I’ve blogged about. I’m sure that some of the existing content might be slightly out-of-date, so if there is enough call for revision I’d be glad to revisit things and give them an update spin.

As most of my commenters know, I do moderate every single comment that comes in and only dump the spam that gets through Akismet. Don’t be shy, let me know what sort of stuff you are looking for.

Well, it took some time but thanks to the help of my VPS provider I’ve got my stuff all back up, and it only took me two days of tweaking to get everything back. You never realize how much work it took to tweak your environment to get it exactly the way that you had it before. I’m glad that’s all over with.

Some things did change while I was waiting for an OS re-install on my slice: I’m no longer working for the Cake Development Corporation. In the end, it just wasn’t the right fit for what Larry and the crew needed at this time. However, I will be continuing to work with them via the Cake Software Foundation as an evangelist for CakePHP and helping to organize CakePHP-related events. I’m very excited about this part because I’ve been working on organizing a CakePHP-related conference to be held in Orlando, FL February 6th through 8th, 2008. We’re down to the signing of contracts to secure meeting rooms etc, and I imagine the web site for the event will be launched sometime in the next few weeks. Sorry I can’t share more details at this time, but it should be very exciting.

So, don’t cry for your humble correspondent as I am never out of work too long these days, but if you know of any interesting telecommuting positions for an egomaniacal PHP developer with lots of experience doing all sorts of difference things, drop me a message. Hopefully those who know me will be able to say something nice about me.