My comic listing software is taking me longer to finish than I originally planned... but that's kind of how it goes when I'm working on free software.

That being said, it's really close to done.  I'm going to try and pull it all together this weekend for release, and at least get it so the base functionality is there.  It's one of those things where if there's no interest, there's no point in making it feature-riffic anyway.  But I guess all software is like that to some degree.

I'm realising that I will probably never get around to adding comments to the Tanabicom blog, so I think when the comic lister is finished I'll go ahead and release the site source code for better or worse.  It's clear I learned a lot from beginning to end with this project, and there's good and bad, but it gets the job done and that's what matters.

Today I found someone has partially beaten me to the punch.  My idea was basically to make a web comic tool where web comic viewers can store their lists of comics and see them presented by update days.  This makes life a lot more efficient for people who watch a lot of web comics that may or may not have RSS feeds.

However, today I found a web comic social networking site.  The URL escapes me at the moment as I found them through a Project Wonderful ad, but in some ways it's similar.  Except it seems they're more oriented towards like, voting and comic popularity whereas my site is much more centered around the idea of personal organization but at the same time letting your friends see what you're reading.

Anyway, I pludge along.  I've made all the model stuff -- just have to make the user interface.  As I'm not quite yet sure what the most useful means of working on this stuff is yet, it's quite difficult.  I probably won't have it this weekend, but I hope to have it finished next weekend; it's been an idea stuck in my head for awhile, and it's so simple that I just have to see it through!

As a random note of interest, I sort of half-updated Tanabicom to Zend Framework 1.9.  I didn't set up the Zend_Application stuff yet, though I've gotten quite aquainted with it in a few other projects, but I got it so the site would come up without complaint.

Additionally, I'm working on a new public service that'll show up on this site.  It'll be fun if I can keep focused long enough to finish -- more details coming soon!

Ugh, turns out www.tanabi.com was broken for a bit.  Not sure for how long, just goes to show how often I update.  I should seek to remedy that!

Anyway, there hasn't been much in the way of public projects lately.  December has been rather slow.  I have been working on an advanced version of the linkspider being used to check back links for link exchange programs, but it's not open source.  Were there any demand for it, I would consider making an open source version.

Still need to finish the wife's gallery and comic management system.  The gallery component is pretty much done (it needs to be able to modify gallery entries -- under the hood it's there, UI isn't finished -- but otherwise finished).  Comic management is next.  Fun times indeed!

The old host that I was on was getting rather unpleasantly slow, so I moved to a different provider.  As such, if anything goes weird on the site, please let me know so I can fix it.

I have been working on a site for my wife that provides art galleries, webcomic management, and stuff like that.  It iwll be up soon (hopefully) and then I will release the code open-source.

Aside from that, I have been mostly in the midst of money-making though not terribly interesting to talk about projects.  Hense not a lot of blog entries!