Welcome to the revival of Bios Elemental. I’ve officially decided to revive my blog and attempt to bring you at least three posts a week with the goal of writing a post every day of the week. This is part of my new years resolutions that I aim to accomplish for the upcoming year/s.

I’ll be writing about different things, but it’ll have a focus on Free/Open-Source Software. However I will not be limiting myself to this and expect to frequently have articles about closed-source products and web services. As I’m working on CubeCreate, you should expect a number of articles related to it as well. This includes game reviews and perhaps some guides as well.

I’ll be enabling a contact form shortly that will allow you to submit suggestions for articles and I’ll do my best to take these into account as well. Well with that, thanks for reading and hopefully by the time you do there will already be a few other posts written.

Nope, I’m not dead. I just haven’t had a whole lot to report recently. This is going to change soon though as CubeCreate gears up for an alpha release and Haven goes live.

In the meantime, I’ll report on what I’ve been up too. Most of my work has been focused on Haven and a few small pylons applications which I’m making to split major features into smaller pieces. For example, BiosImg is a tinypic style website which I’m designing to test different ways of handling user uploaded images.

On a similar note, I think I’ve finally figured out the basics of repoze.who/what and that is very good for the future of Haven. A strong well-tested auth system is very important and repoze.who/what is for sure better quality code then I could work out in a few hours.

I’m continuing to look at Turbogears 2 but since the project seems frankly somewhat dead at the moment, not to mention their lack of support of Pylons 1.0, I think I’ll simply end up porting a few handy features over.