Needing More Features
Seeing as I actually enjoy programming, sometimes it is nice to make small projects for myself. I have another project I'm working on for a friend that has been taking up most of my free programming time, so my blog makes for arena of experimentation. Recently, I've been interested in using CouchDB. I'm partly interested in because it is not a traditional database. While I can put SQL on my resume, I'm far from an expert and lacking a desire to become one. Unless I find a good backend storage system, I'm always going to be a slave to either the filesystem or my own concoctions.
One option is to move the backend to CouchDB, but honestly, SQLite has been treating me very well, so I don't mind sticking with it for the time being. Moving my friends project is also an option, but my job is to make a working project, not experiment. One area that always seems to be lacking on my blog is the lack of Web 2.0-isms. I don't have any widgets, tagging, or more generally, social features. At this point, my interest is not to participate, but to contribute. My writing has become more important to me this past year and without readership, I'm losing out on important feedback from readers. Making posting articles on popular sites might help in boosting readership and generally get a little more attention. Tagging, on the other hand, just seems semantically cool over the long run.
So, my next post should hopefully include some nifty "Post to Social Website X" widgets as well as a simple tags list. Hopefully it will help improve my readership.
