Bagel Belly Blog

Cocoonery

While discussing Martin's New Year vacation to Dublin, I remembered this picture I'd taken when I was there. It struck me as amusing at the time. After the recent string of hiccups, I figure it's actually quite appropriate. (Cocoon in this case turned out to be a bar.)

I've been having a lot of fun with Cocoon recently, and with peripheral software, too. Jeremy's been coming up with some cool stuff (getting to use many of the features I've been wanting to try out for a long time), and it's fascinating to watch. In between fighting fires, I've also been rolling my sleeves up and getting some - gosh, gasp - actual java written, getting to grips with Hibernate, Apache 2, Jetty and so on. Feels like progress.

I've also had to roll my sleeves up and do some of the outstanding sysadmin jobs I've been putting off. I'm finding one of the benefits of having employees in addition to co-conspirators is that they don't let you get away with putting things off indefinitely! Today was Mailman and JSPWiki. Tomorrow, I need to upgrade MovableType to hopefully thwart the comment spammers that are plaguing me.