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Saturday, September 29 2007
In my day job, we have a client who is in many ways a delightful chap, but who is frustratingly unable to make his mind up about what he wants. We make changes and then undo them. We implement features he asks for, and he hates them. We make suggestions, and he ignores them, and then two weeks later he demands they be implemented immediately. Naturally, this causes stress. In my weaker moments I find myself feeling a certain amount of resentment. Which he doesn’t deserve, since he cheerfully pays for everything, and I admire his perfectionism.
So anyway I’m finding it unnerving that I’m doing the same thing myself, on my own personal project. Suddenly, it is imperative that Burble be able to serve multiple sites (so I can use it for bazombo.com and vital.org.nz without running multiple instances) and ordinary non-blog pages (since what is a blog but a specialised CMS that focuses on a content asset’s date metadata? Might as well deal with other kinds of asset while we’re at it.) It is vital that I be able to turn comments on and off, even though I have never felt like doing that in four years of blogging. And maybe I should be instrumenting pages for dynamic usage statistics. And so on… anyway, it feels weird when your own hobby project has scope creep.
I pretty much have non-blog pages licked. I can create arbitrary pages and pick templates for them and build a search engine-friendly URL out of the title. I don’t have much use for them on bazombo.com though. They’re really for my content from vital.org.nz.
My ultimate plan is that vital.org.nz stay as my purely personal site, for trivia and babbling and news for Stephen’s Inner Circle; bazombo.com is meant to be a platform for various projects and schemes I’m cooking up, and technical, factual, informative blogging. But I’m discovering that Burble is so much nicer for me to use than Blosxom (which drives vital.org.nz) that I have to have it on both sites.
Tags: burble ~ scope creep ~ the bazombo media empire
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