Restart

Oh, and until I get some more articles up here on the front page, the web site might look a little broken. Perhaps I’ll take the time and look at the templates and fix it. If not, just bear with me while I get started.

Anyway, mostly this first entry is an test for me. I’ll try to start posting more interesting entries in the future. The PostNuke site was nice, but not well suited for just a blog. And even MT isn’t exactly what I’m looking for. Someday I’ll just have to write my own web-based publishing system I guess. (If anyone has a favorite blog system or CMS system, you should post a comment). What I should do is start putting together links on CMS systems. Perhaps in the wiki site.

Work on JLCP is going well. We’ve got 0.5.1 coming up and all sorts of plans for the later releases. JavaOne is soon, so we’d better hurry. The big issue right now is developing a sort of “intermediate” layer that will tie all our various modules together.

Also, the wiki site here at JadeTower has started to get some use. Mostly I’ve got programming links there, but I think it could become a great resource. Definitely a nice way to hash out some ideas before putting them up on the site proper. Check it out and feel free to contribute.

One section on the site is for Scientific Computing. I’m currently finishing my degree in this area (should graduate Decemeber 2003) and I thought it would be nice to sort of “summarize” a lot of the things I’ve studied. There really aren’t a lot of good well written undergraduate texts in this area, so hopefully I could eventually create a nice web resource.

Yep, the grand schemes I always have at the beginning of the summer.