It appears that it is a time of change for me at the moment so I thought I’d take a moment and let you all know what’s going on. The first and perhaps the most obvious is the theme for the site has been updated, after close to two years I felt the old design needed a bit of a refresh. The new site is using a lot of HTML 5 and is all semantically marked up with sections, articles and such, I’ve got to say HTML 5 is makes a lot of sense for a site like mine allowing a lot more meaning to generated from the code itself. I’ve also increased my ‘social presence’ in the sidebar adding in links to my github, Google+ and Stackoverflow profiles.

Now I’ve mentioned github I think that it’s worth noting that from now on I’m primarily going to be using that for hosting my source control, I’m by no means an expert with git but I’m learning and enjoying using it so far. The only legacy codebase of mine that I’ve migrated to github currently is gIDE which can be found here. Thinking about projects going forward I have two projects which I haven’t mentioned on this blog, I’ll briefly mention them here and later provide a more indepth post about each of them.

CRAPI – One of the projects I have worked on in the past was a REST API for Coldfusion, during which I found CF to be a bit lacking in what I wanted it to do. So to remedy this I have started CRAPI which stands for a Coldfusion REST API. This framework is inspired by the various MVC frameworks that I have toyed with (though it supplies no ORM functionality) and I like to think that it is reasonably easy to use. The name is only a placeholder at the moment and I will most likely be changing it to CFRest before I make a post about it.

MarkPDF – I like markdown, I think it is fantastic for a quickly written document to get some formatting. Recently I have been playing around with taking a document formatted with markdown and transforming it into a PDF, MarkPDF is my progress so far it’s a small commandline app written in C#. I’m working on adding more functionality to it at the moment (mostly around metadata) before I make ‘proper’ post about it.

Finally I’m going to end this post on a bit of a downer. February the 10th marked my last day working for LayerX, unfortunately I was made redundant. I started at LayerX on the 6th of July in 2009 and I enjoyed my time with the company, I’m looking forward to what the future has instore for me and I’ll update this blog when I find as things progress.

So it would seem that I might be starting to go a little theme happy. Not one week after releasing the new theme to my own blog I’ve tried my hand at another theme. At work we are gearing up for the release of theCloud our hosted services platform and I had the pleasure of designing the blog theme that we are using for theCloud blog which was launched yesterday there over the next little while you will be able to find posts related to hosted services, cloud computing and other related topics. I’m hopefully going to try and squeeze in some posts about customising the software we have available through coding.