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title: "Next serial enthusiasm?"
date: 2008-01-28T01:47:17-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2008/01/28/next-serial-enthusiasm/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, enthusiasms, kohana, pylons]
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# Next serial enthusiasm?

*Update:* Yeah - I sent out a request for comments after breaking my comments.  Ugh.  Thanks if you tried commenting, and I hope you might try again.  If not, thanks for stopping by anyway!

So, I've been basically hacking on nothing after work for quite some time now.  I've had a few false starts, but have been finding it hard to get motivated to move on anything.  There are a few things I've started, though, which might be worth returning to and finishing.  If I were to do that - or start something new - which of these do *you* think might be worth my time?

* [FeedMagick2](http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/FeedMagick2/) - web command-line toolkit for munging and filtering feeds, written in PHP 5
* [XoxoOutliner](http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/XoxoOutliner/) - a browser-based outliner with a REST API, written in PHP 5
* Learn [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com/) or [Pylons](http://pylonshq.com/), do social networky stuff and explore OpenID and OAuth?
* Explore [CodeIgniter](http://codeigniter.com/) or [Kohana](http://kohanaphp.com/home.html) further, do social networky stuff that can ideally be installed alongside WordPress and PHP 5?
* Something else?  [OpenSocial](http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/)?  Keep hacking on my Centro's Blazer browser and do something silly and Web 2.0?
* Level [my troll](http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maelstrom&n=Paytol) to 70 and work on getting sweet PvP gear?


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                <a href="#comment-221090988" class="permalink"><time datetime="2008-01-28T18:57:01">2008-01-28T18:57:01</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Testing?</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090990" class="permalink"><time datetime="2008-01-28T19:13:45">2008-01-28T19:13:45</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>My vote is for Django and OpenID research. I'd be very interested in hearing your take on OpenID and OAuth. Just my two cents.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090991" class="permalink"><time datetime="2008-01-28T20:03:54">2008-01-28T20:03:54</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>My vote is:
1) Pylons/openid/oauth</p>

<p>2) XoXoOutliner</p>

<p>3) Level your troll... or opensocial, but I think opensocial probably doesn't give you the same instant gratification that slaying a evil 5 headed acid-drooling dragon-like creature does.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090992" class="permalink"><time datetime="2008-01-30T17:48:37">2008-01-30T17:48:37</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>My vote is for FeedMagick2. The web could use a powerful feed manipulation tool. I read a ton of feeds, some of which could really use some tweaking, combining, and filtering, but most of the tools offered up so far don't provide enough functionality. Maybe I just need to learn XSLT.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090993" class="permalink"><time datetime="2008-01-31T03:31:26">2008-01-31T03:31:26</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>You gotta get to 70. A) You NEED a flying mount. B) Half the stuff in the game is aimed at being 70.</p>

<p>But you can start farming honor now... That Arena 1 gear buyable with battleground honor is awesome.</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>I vote for learning Pylons by doing XoxoOutliner in it.</p></div>
            
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