Mosaic of Subcultures

So why host your own blog these days when there are so many open source options?  I think I have one of the few justifiable special-cases... I intend to use this space as a testing ground for next-generation ui/web ideas, in areas ranging from pure JS to Java/OGL integrations to maybe even some Flash.  I expect only some of this to be cross-browser only since I'm specifically going to be focusing on cutting-to-bleeding edge tech.

This blog is powered by the result of an off and on effort to build a web framework to iterate quickly.  The gyst of it is not just the usual MVC blah blah, but also a means to ingest and produce content based on variety of heterogenous sources such as xml,json,csv , you name it.  Ultimately these facilities will be used to be the back-end supporting any intelligence the UI will be exposing.

Ultimately web framework is not a very open-sourceable effort, as it's very homegrown in it's architecture and integrates pretty concretely with other projects-it's very tailored to what I want to be able to do.  If you're a geek reading this, then you're probably guessing that there must be two major components to this, a translation framework, as well as the web infrastructure, and you're right!

I might be talking about the web framework a little more in the future, but for now I won't since I consider it the boring part of the development effort.  Next time I update, hopefully I'll be discussing the exciting part!