It’s winter. That means heavy renovations on blog are underway. You might describe it as being the a South Mall style-project, where the whole blog is operating on planks and orange caution tape and under heavy construction for months on end.

While I use the core of WordPress for my blog these days, all of the media code is written and managed by myself. Unfortunately, the code is pretty complicated with a mixture of AJAX powering the interface. I am increasingly using common libraries to reduce the amount of coding – such as jQuery, but there is always room for bugs to crop up, and for things to go wrong.

Once the weather gets nice, I will give up on messing with the guts of the blog. But for now, while the weather is cold and miserable out, I figure I should renovate it as much as possible. It can be a bit difficult to live test at home without the Internet, but I do get a lot more coding done without the distractions of the Internet – even if at times I have to use my clunky, minimally smart phone to find out answers to coding questions I might have.

The good news is the winter will soon be over, both outside and on the blog. Like roadwork, most all work will cease on the internals of the blog, and I will be spending my time in the wilderness.