have completed one of my New Year's resolutions for 2008 a little early, as I have re-constructed the back-end of my blog and have this blog back up and running after over two months off. Last Saturday I started constructing the CMS, writing the code that runs the show, debugging, and making everything secure. All the major functional stuff is out of the way, so now I can focus on enhancements and fixing the inevitable bugs that are bound to pop up (but will hopefully go unnoticed by you the visitor).

There are not very many visible changes: most of what is new are things that make blogging easier for me by automating processes so that all I need to do is write my blog entry and click the Publish button. While one big benefit is that I will be blogging again, I feel like the biggest benefit was the experience gained from solving problems, spending hours debugging a single problem, trial and error, and accomplishing intimidating tasks so that I will be better equipped to apply the experiences and the new knowledge gained to future projects.

One thing to note is that my RSS feed has changed, so if you subscribe to this blog's feed please update the link in your favorite feed aggregator to http://www.joshuamcinnis.com/blog/rss/rss.php. Also, regarding previous blog entries, I have not updated the archives to incorporate into the new system since it would be too much unadvantageous long work to handle those years' worth of entries, so be prepared for a little bugginess if browsing old entries. New archives from this point on will be fine though.

I hope you enjoy the return of the blog! It was fun to revamp.

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