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After my post the other day regarding moving to Seatoun, I went back to Paraparaumu - and it was lovely. But confirmation of the beauty around here also hit home this week.
The weather up in Kapiti was great today. I had to go up there on errand, but after that was finished, a couple of friends and I went for a walk on the beach.
It's not the nicest beach to sit on, but then, I think sitting on a beach is a waste of time. It is, however, an excellent beach for walking along. It's very intriguing along there in that lots and lots of sealife gets washed up onto it. We saw many fantastic curly shells, lots of driftwood and a few half-rotting fish.
In other news, I went to see Comet McNaught again last night. Although it wasn't as bright as last week, it is still spectacular.
I do find it amusing however that a group of us has been us up at least 3 times each week recently with no-one else around but last night there were a whole host of other people. Funny how they all come out of the woodwork on a Saturday night. Also annoying that loads of them had torches and were shining them into lots of faces - my eyes were just about adjusting and bang straight into my eyes they shine.
Thank you, thanks a lot.
Labels: paraparaumu-beach, beach, mcnaught
Inserted: 2007-01-28 22:53 (3 years, 6 months ago)
Both are well underway. Zaapt is progressing and Project X is almost ready for launch.
Over the past few weeks, I've spent a lot of time working on Zaapt and ProjectX. Zaapt is a CMS which provides content management for small to medium sized sites, but it doesn't force the site structure in which you have to work. The reason for this is explained in a previous article Zaapt, a new CMS.
The best part about Zaapt CMS though is instead of developing it and then developing a site, I have had a fairly big site to develop alongside it - Project X. This means that straight away I can analyse the CMS skeleton I have put in place and verify that it actually works the way I want it too. I also have people playing with it too, which is great to track down bugs and get them fixed early (thanks guys).
The current high level of achievement hit home to me a couple of days ago when I realised that my design was on the right track. Up until that point, I had been adding generic content types that almost any site can use (blogs, news, managed pages, forums, etc) but I then had to add a type which was specific to the site. For example, the Account information is generic across all sites - but this site required a Profile for each user.
Now you might say profile is generic, but it's not. Yes, the idea of a Profile is generic, but the contents aren't. For example, if you've just joined a Photography site, you may want to say who your favourite photographers are. If you've joined a games site, they won't care about your favourite photographer, but will care about the game you've played the most.
From a Perl point of view when I added the generic type, instead of using the Zaapt namespace, I used the ProjectX namespace. It inherited the various things from Zaapt it needed and the model worked fine. There is also generic database patch scripts which live in the project instead of Zaapt, and finally, the Mason pages live under the project's htdocs instead of Zaapt's Mason hierarchy.
So there was three things it seemed I had designed correctly in the beginning with a view to generic and specific types and all of them worked out perfectly. It made me very happy.
You'll be able to get a feel of how Zaapt is progressing soon when ProjectX is released. Then you'll also be able to see the fruits of labour from a great group of people.
Unfortunately I can't link to it yet (which is okay) but will do really really soon :-)
Inserted: 2007-01-27 12:23 (3 years, 6 months ago)
A walk when I got home from work and a quick drive to see the sunset.
Being here in Seatoun has been like a breath of fresh-air for me. I did like it up in Kapiti (hence, that's why I'm keeping the kapiti.geek.nz domain), but I just feel more at home here. It's only a few minutes to work which is absolutely great.
We're cut off from the rest of Wellington due to the hill over Seatoun Heights, but that's not to say we're very far from it - it's still only 15 mins to the centre of town. Also, over the past few days, I have headed out for a walk just to chill out after the working day. Up and around the headland is a beautiful walk from which you can see the South Island on a clear day and over the whole of Wellington harbour and the harbour opening.
One of the other bonuses though is the ability to head to Wahine Memorial Park on the south coast and watch the sunsets from there. It's very rocky on the coast and it's great for chucking stones into the water (nope, I haven't grown up yet). Already I have already seen a few good sunsets this year, though the low clouds in Wellington sometimes spoil it slightly.
Did I also say that there isn't much traffic round here either :-)
All in all, I can't think of a more beautiful place to live, work and enjoy the scenery.
Labels: seatoun, walking, sunset
Inserted: 2007-01-25 22:23 (3 years, 6 months ago)
After thinking we were too late, we caught a glimpse - it is beautiful.
After reading all those articles yesterday and this morning, I got the impression that the comet was really close to the sun and you'd only be able to see it for a few minutes afterwards.
After heading to the coast and getting some good photos (I'll try and post some) of a really nice sunset, it was time to go. We had arrived just after sunset, but more importantly, there were clouds on the horizon - which is why we thought it had gone.
At around 9:20pm, while it was still quite high in the sky, one of our group spotted it.
It really is quite stunning :-)
Certainly, I'll try and see it again over the next few days and probably weeks. It will get feinter, but by then I hope to have seen it many more times.
This weekend, I'm planning on going out to the Wairarapa where it will be a lot darker (no light polution) and hopefully a flatish landscape around me. Should be fun.
Update: 2007-01-17 12:04 - Don has taken a \[p]{great photo of the comet|http://www.gamma.net.nz/?p=309}.
Update: 2007-01-17 23:44 - So it's not really his picture, but it is a great image.
Inserted: 2007-01-16 23:12 (3 years, 6 months ago)
That last entry reminded me about a naming convention I have.
A few years ago, I bought a laptop computer. It was a Toshiba Satellite and I must admit, it has been like an old friend for a number of years. I called that computer Satellite.
When I got my next one, I called it Comet, even though the model name of the laptop wasn't anything to do with space. My next computer has the name Asteroid. At one stage, I also owned a server called Meteor.
Now that I've kinda used up those names, I started a new naming convention for my new computer. I found a list of \[p]{Jupiter's moons|http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Moons} and started at number one. This new computer is called Metis. I don't think I'll ever get up to 63 however, though the naming goes a bit funny from 41 onwards.
The other convention I have is for servers, but again that is so far still at number one. The convention for my servers is \[p]{Liverpool FC|http://liverpoolfc.tv/} players and ex-players. My first server didn't have a name, but my current one is called Fowler.
Maybe in the future when VPS or Dedicated Servers are a lot cheaper, I'll be able to get a whole solar system or football team!
Inserted: 2007-01-16 00:42 (3 years, 6 months ago)
The brightest comet for 30 years should be viewable in our evening skies over the next few days.
Here's some pictures from the UK: \[p]{Comet McNaught|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6251663.stm}
It looks quite stunning.
Here's an explanation of how to find \[p]{Comet McNaught in the New Zealand sky|http://www.carterobservatory.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1095&Itemid=81}, just after sunset.
Update: 2007-01-16 11:36 - Stuff has finally put up \[p]{an article|http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3929492a11.html}.
Inserted: 2007-01-16 00:20 (3 years, 6 months ago)
I've been head down in writing my new CMS and the new site for ProjectX...just wait and see, it's going to be great.
After a number of weeks with my head in the laptop (like your head being in a book, but slightly different), I've made great strides in the functionality of the new CMS and the first site which will use it. There are page types for content managed pages, blogs (50% done), news, FAQs, Forums (90% done) and accounts (25% done).
For those wanting a sneak peak of the CMS, take a look at Zaapt Home and \[p]{Zaapt Project Home|http://code.google.com/p/zaapt/}.
As for ProjectX, I have 2 more things to implement before we can go live. I want to add some Profile information for each account and then I can get started on a few added extras specific to the site itself.
I'm really, really dieing to tell you all about it but I can't yet. Once we do an official launch, then I'll be able to write something here. Let's just say I'm excited and I think the rest of the group are too.
Inserted: 2007-01-14 21:12 (3 years, 6 months ago)
As stated in an earlier post, my ambitions for a simple but powerful CMS is progressing well.
I have added various content including Accounts (partial), Content Pages, FAQs and Blogs (partial). Planned content types to be added soon includes News, Forums, Links and Menus. I'm sure others will be added as it all progresses. Also, there is provision for sites to add their own content types on top of the boxed content types.
Progress is going well though of course it is still in the early stages of development. Even though I am taking the traditional route at the moment, there are plans to add shiny new Ajax to make things even nicer.
Finally, the project code can be found at Google Code under the \[p]{Zaapt|http://code.google.com/p/zaapt/} project. See the \[p]{Zaapt|http://kapiti.geek.nz/software/zaapt.html} home page for the commit, issue and discuss groups...though these are quiet at the moment that's fine by me while I carry on.
Inserted: 2007-01-04 01:44 (3 years, 6 months ago)
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