There are two months to go until the first window of the 2018 Advent Calendar Challenge Advent Calendar is opened, and time to update you on things, I guess!
First up: if you have recently browsed into the homepage for any reason in this off-season you might have noticed a mild redesign – I started with the intention of trying to closely match the template this blog uses but it wasn’t as straight forward as it seemed… long-term I want to make it a bit more Christmassy looking – there is no mental template but I assume at this stage it’ll be purples and greens and reds and whites but we’ll see!
So anyway I got to the stage where I had mimicked the blog template slightly and this is what you see now, but then reason two for wanting a redesign came up – the code is not well written (it’s essentially the same code as I wrote for it in 2004 that has over the years had things bolted on as the need to came up). A ground-up rewrite is the order of the day I think, and so that is the task I will endeavour to undertake between now and the end of November. It’s been 15 years in the making though, so I wouldn’t hold your breath, but in the interests of progress I’ve taken a copy of the database for testing purposes. I’ll keep you informed!