I had a dream last night where XQuery was this very powerful science that was seen in fearful, almost magical terms by the laity. I guess this is perhaps an indication that I have been reading too many Dune references while watching too much Fullmetal Alchemist while doing too much XML programming.



"The declarative artifact engineers are extinct. Their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that remains of their religion."

Released markout v13.1.0, as per here.

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.