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Bumbling Along

As you may have noticed, there as been a distinct lack of activity around here lately, I’ve been worked off my feet and as a result I’ve struggled to find the time to sit down and write long form posts.

I have continued to post all the interesting links that I find over on my ticketapp account: http://ticketapp.com/andrew

There is usually around 20 posts of the best stuff from my RSS feeds plus pictures and opinions there, Tickets has made it easier and more enjoyable to post lots of content than using wordpress has been.

The Solution

So I want to get most posts back onto Teabass.com, the easiest way would be to hack wordpress to import my tickets rss/xml feed into the main body, but not only is that not nice, it’s not maintainable.

One of my main reasons for wanting to move away from Wordpress is so I can easily extend and modify any of the application (my knowledge of php is lacking and wordpress is a bit of a mess when you get deeper down).

Plus as a ruby on rails developer, I really should build my own website to show off my talents, the new site will be an advertisement for myself too.

Instead I’ve made Bumble, the bastard child of wordpress, tumblr, pownce and ticketapp.

There are 6 different types of post that bumble has built in (Blog, Video, Quote, Image, Link and Code) using the STI design pattern, each with different validations and template partials, unlike a standard tumblog it also has comments.

I’ve yet to put any real page design or javascript magic into it, but the core app plus basic html is there now, I’m hoping to get it all pulled together over the next month or so.

You can follow the continuing development of it over on Github: http://github.com/andrew/bumble/

And of course it’s open sourced under MIT, free for anyone to do what ever the hell they like with it.