MarkdownJ just put out a new release, which includes a small patch that I submitted a few months back. It's just a line of code, but it's nice to see. And it means I can remove the forked copy I was maintaining for Markout, which is nice.

I've got other, more scrutable stuff going on at the moment, but I guess the next thing to do in the coming weeks is to clean up boomstick enough that I could throw out an uber-basic 0.1 release or something. It still needs a lot of love, but it works, simple though it may be. I want to make what I've got presentable and get it out the door, so that improvements can happen openly, discretely, and as they are needed. I need get boomstick to a basic state of completion and rotate it to the background, into a supporting role, which is really where it belongs. The reason I started writing boomstick isn't because the world needs Yet Another Content Management System, or because creating one poses any particularly interesting problems -- it was because I couldn't find the tools I needed, that I liked, to support my other efforts. Boomstick is ultimately just a toolkit to allow me to easily put together web sites that are what I want, how I want, when I need them.