The day is finally here! Yes, I’m going to India for slightly less than 4 weeks. I’ll be leaving this Wednesday. So the blog is probably going to be silent for the bulk of this month. Although, if I do manage to get a broadband connection at home, that might change :)
Strangely, I’m not as excited as I thought I would be. It probably hasn’t sunk in yet. But it should be fun nontheless.
I’m not going to be travelling a whole lot, and will probably spend most of my time in and around Gwalior, chilling out with my family. But I do want to catch up with a whole bunch of people, so we’ll see how it works out. If you’re in India and want to get in touch, do drop me a note!
On a side note, I’ve become bored with this site design. So after I’m back, expect a change. I’ll still be using WordPress, but probably switch to a different design. WP 2.0 should be out by then hopefully. Also (and this is a secret), I’m trying to hack up my own static website generation tool. No no, nothing against Forrest — Forrest is //awesome// — but I just wanted to dabble around some more with Python and this seems like the perfect toy project. Besides, at times I feel I need something even simpler than Forrest for my needs.
In other news, I bought a video iPod for my sister, and have been playing around with it the last 2 days. The iPod seems very nice, but I must say I’m truly, utterly disgusted and frustrated by iTunes. Its the //worst// music management software I’ve seen till date. I’ll post a detailed rant some other time.
If you want to play around wit python, you won’t find anything better than TurboGears. See the 20 min tutorial to buid wiki. If you do manage to find anything better let me know :)
@gulli: I guess its not apparent from my blog, but I closely follow this space. So yes, I’ve already tried TG, am on the mailing list, track the SVN head and so on :-D
Meanwhile, I’m not building a web framework — others have done a much better job at that. I’m just trying to build a tool to generate static website: this tool will have NO dynamic content generation facilities (depending on what you mean by dynamic, but basically no server side runtime support will be needed — the tool will output plain XHTML). I have a very specific set of goals in mind, and I just feel like scratching this itch :)
Have a great and safe trip ;)
Hmm … Good, I’ll contribute a bunch of templates excluuuusive to you … :) so keep in touch and send me updates.