Shortly after the release of Google's doctype project for consolidating information on web design markup languages, Webmonkey is re-released by Wired. Webmonkey used to be a great resource for tutorials and quick how-tos for beginners and amateurs alike.

At them moment, it appears that Doctype has the clear advantage as far as content goes. The community around doctype seems more professional and "geeky". I foresee that the Webmonkey community will consist mostly of beginners and some amateurs coming to fill in the missing pieces, but overall, doctype will remain the more professional and advanced of the two.

As you may notice, there may be some problems with the RSS feeds at the moment. I'm taking care of it right now and, at the same time, wondering if my URL structure is going to be able to sustain much real use.

So this is my new blog! I haven't had one in a while (in fact, it's probably been over a year). I got sick of Wordpress about a year or two ago when it began to creep along and still not offer enough customization for me. With the advent of Google AppEngine, decided this would be the perfect opportunity for me to create my own blogging engine and control everything myself. So here we are! I am only saddened because I would kind of like to write posts in Google Docs but can't use the built in Blogging feature (although I could definitely whip up something from the API that would mimic the feature). I hope to post here on goings on in the community. You can find me all over the internet, at FriendFeed, Twitter, and many others (which can be found on FriendFeed). Some stuff to look for coming up soon:

• FriendFeed feature
• Some Google AppEngine write ups (some about how I did this and my growing love of python)
• Maybe a new editing engine (I'll post about it if I find a suitable one)

Thanks for stopping by!!