Colin's Journal

Yet another huge gap between updates of my journal!  I've been messing around with alternative systems for managing my site content, including:

• Zope and in particular CMF.  This doesn't look to promising yet - there's very little documentation and it's not easy to see how to create templates so that I can have different pages that pull in other content.  It does however feature web based editing - which I think it probably a good thing!
• Building a Java GUI for my home made system.  Currently it'll display things in a tree and supports plugins, etc - it just do anything useful yet!
• Thinking about building a simple web based GUI for editing pages in my home cooked system - this might be the easiest route to a good solution

In other news I had a trip back home to the UK recently - which was great!  It's nice to get back every few months and remind myself of what life there is like :-)