Ran Aroussi: What I've been up to

31 January 2005, 00:50 What I've been up to

It’s been a long time since I wrote here last. I was so busy the last couple of months with various projects—sometimes it felt like being buried under too many lines of code.

Well, I finally decided to “re-design” my site. I don’t really think of it as a re-design since I do not think the old version had a design. I wanted this site to be nice-looking like other beautiful websites I see around and I am finally happy with the result (for now). I hope Jon won’t mind me “borrowing” the red thing in the upper right corner :)

I’ve been working very hard on the official version of AppleStore Israel. It looks and feels the same as the global AppleStore, except it is in Hebrew (naturally). The store is a LAMP application (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-Perl-Python) and as much as I had fun programming it – I had even more fun copycat-ing its design from Apple’s global site.

What am I up to next?

In the near future I hope to complete the following:

TXP Trackback – a plugin that gives Textpattern TrackBack capabilities (long overdue).
BLOGish – an advanced PHP cms/blogware that uses XML/XSL for use in personal sites. I promised David I will have it ready by the end of February.
FeedGator – a near-finished online feed reader I neglected some time ago.

People also are asking me to make some tweaks to Safarish—my Firefox theme for OSX that gives Firefox the brushed-metal look. I hope to release the next version soon.

I encourage you to leave a message and tell me what you think of the new design. I’d love to hear from you…

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Comments

Stefan / Feb 1, 10:27 AM Nice work. Keep it up! #

Zuperfly / Feb 1, 11:49 AM This red thing in the upper right corner .. it’s hicksdesign, isn’t it? (http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal) #

Ran / Feb 1, 12:06 PM It sure was inspired by Jon . He is after all one of my favorites – so it is somewhat of a tribute. #

Manuela / Feb 1, 03:21 PM I really like the clean layout and the way you use color and pictures. #

Ran / Feb 3, 12:07 PM Thank you Manuela, I appreciate your comments. I visited your site(s) a number of times and all I can say is I wish I could read German… :-) #

David Collantes / Feb 3, 07:10 PM Excellent Ran! I look forward to Blogish, I can already asure you I will be one of the most active testers.

Beautiful redesign, marvelous! Cheers. #

Manfred / Feb 13, 04:15 PM i really love that safarish theme and hope that nasty bug of too large find bar will soon be fixed ! #

Michele / Mar 23, 06:15 PM sooo… what about the trackback? Would you mind sending it to me by email?

I can handle fixing it where it needs, I just don’t want to rewrite the code. #

alicson / Aug 15, 12:24 AM i’d also looooove to hear how progress is going with the trackback plugin for textpattern, please. is it still in progress? #

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