Bluewave Digital

One of the projects I've been working on for a while is a simple way to be able to publish podcasts online, without having to worry about downloading applications, or hand coding HTML or whatever. One of the main things that's been keeping me from finishing it, of course, has been lack of time. However, the other thing I noticed is that I was taking a completely wrong approach.

I do this all the time. I have these great, crazy ideas for projects that I never finish. This very site is proof of that. Most of the problem is not having enough time to finish anything that I want to do due to work and school. However, I have a project in mind that if everything goes well I can start now, and then continue next semester when I will only be taking the remaining two classes that I need, plus work.

It all starts with the nagging feeling that I want to start cooking for the Internet again. I used to look forward to the Saturday night cooking, Sunday night blogging that allowed me to flex my creativity in the kitchen. I just haven't had time to cook something pretty and then post on the site. However, I have an idea in mind that may prompt me to actually start again.

Every so often I am reminded that I am going to school to learn to make movies...

After much confusion trying to figure out what our group was going to shoot, on the drive out to the Marin Headlands, we came up with a simple concept involving sand dollars, a dolly (as in a camera dolly), and someone walking.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it?

Alright guys and gals...stop the presses: I've actually designed something from scratch that I don't immediately hate.

Read more about it at my web design portfolio page, or just look at the pretty picture below:

I'm always scheming something, aren't I?

This time I think I've hit on a plan with some merit. I've been doing a lot of thinking about what I'm going to do after I graduate, and I realize that I've done very little work in the field that I'm studying, but a lot in web design and development. I was trying to figure out what I could do with the combination of the three and I stumbled upon an idea: combine them into a sellable service.

Let's keep it short and simple. If your site cannot be read by Dillo, then you need to go back and reconsider your design.

I didn't say it had to look pretty.

You're curious, aren't you? You want to know why I have a subdomain of sharemyfood.bluewavedigital.net active and with a rather cryptic blank page. You'll just have to wait a little bit longer.

Because sometimes you just just can't help getting ideas

Have you ever been sitting around, minding your own business and then WHAM an idea hits? Do you then find yourself furiously scrounging around for a sticky note or piece of paper to write it down, only to have it get lost or forgotten about later? Then listen up, because I have something for you.

Object Oriented PHP Class for Managing Podcasts

What is it?

Bluewave Podcast Generator is a series of of PHP classes that can be added to any project that makes it easy to work with the actual XML portion of a podcast.

Where can I get it?

All files are listed on the google code page for this project at http://bwpodg.googlecode.com, but there's not currently any downloadable packages yet. Once I get a feature complete version done, I'll post up packages and tag it in SVN.