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I'd like to make a small notification of the fact that I'm going to take this site (and thus, this blog) in a fairly different direction over the coming months. I've been talking about it with various people for a while now, but nothing was really conclusive for me. However, when discussing it with Bryan I realized a few key things for myself, and so, a decision's been made. Read on for some details, or skip that and just don't be surprised about other topics surfacing here soon.

One of the reasons I'm changing things around is because I want to switch my backend to Django. No, this is not because Croftie did it; I've been thinking about new backend solutions since last October. Jeff Croft's reboot did help pique my interest in Django, and I've looked into it some more and decided that I'll likely prefer it over Ruby on Rails.

At first I was thinking of creating another PHP-PostgreSQL system, but I think Django will take the same amount of development time (actually, much less but I've yet to learn the framework and the Python language, so that evens it out) and it'll be more fun for me because it's a new thing to learn. On top of that, I plan to do a lot more little project sites and having a firm grasp of Django will only be a good thing for that; re-using a modularized PHP-based system will just not work as well as custom-built solutions that take the same or even less time to build. Yes, Django is that promising.

Another reason for the change is that I've had this blog for about 19 months now and have always tried to keep the focus on web standards and design as much as possible. That's not something I'm unhappy about, really, but it does eliminate a lot of other things I want to write about. With various sites planned for the coming year, several of which focused entirely on web standards, the need to centralize my web-related writing here becomes smaller, and the urge to write about whatever I want to write about, bigger.

Now, obviously I can do pretty much whatever I want on this site, but I've always had and always will have the desire to be informative and useful to people reading my site. This blog isn't so much for myself as it is for people who care to read it; when I want to write just for myself, I use the private journal I have somewhere for it. When I write here, I write something that I hope someone else can find some value in.

That goal will remain the same, no matter how much I'll be changing things around here. I'll just be writing on a lot more than just web-related matters, is all.

How soon will you be seeing all these changes? Well, the writing-side of them will take place immediately - there's a few things I want to say about the E3 (games) conference that's going on right now. The other changes will be somewhere between now and, well, December. Let's leave it at that. ;-)

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