The last six months, I’ve been enjoying (well, mostly) an extended break away from pretty much anything to do with computers. I’ve read my e-mail and done plenty of on-line reading, but all geek activities were halted and any resemblance I may once have borne to a coder or a sysadmin was no longer in evidence.
Happily, my workstation is now reinstalled and awaiting further instructions. Next week, I hope to embark on the arduous process of integrating all of the patches I’ve received over the last six months for bash completion, Ruby/LDAP, Ruby/Google and some of my other projects. New releases should follow within the foreseeable future.
Ruby/Amazon is another project of mine that has been generating a lot of e-mail lately. A fair number of people would like to see me update the code to use version 4 of the Amazon API (it currently supports version 3), but it’s a major overhaul that I just haven’t had the time or inclination to take on in the last six months. After all, I did become a father, re-emigrate across the world and buy a house.
Anyway, I’ve still not been convinced to sink the necessary time into Ruby/Amazon, but I’m closer to being convinced now than I was three months ago. One person even offered to pay me on a contract basis to do the work, which was very flattering, but it’s not an issue of the money. It’s simply that it’s quite an undertaking to do it properly and that’s time I wouldn’t be able to spend on other things.
We’ll just have to see how that one pans out. No promises, but if life settles down a little and I manage to produce new releases of my less involved projects in the next few weeks, I might reconsider my position on Ruby/Amazon.
I should also start work on that MythTV box I keep talking about. So many things to do and only 86400 seconds in a day.