As you may know, 100 percent of this website was written from scratch. I don’t use Wordpress or any packaged solution because it goes against the grain of what I want this website to represent. I want MarcGrabanski.com to be unique and empowering to developers. It is time to take a step back and re-think what I am doing and why I am doing it. Let me start by brain-dumping the things I’d like to do:

• Write a forum to help support the code I’ve written.


• Put code into SVN so that other developers can contribute.


• Fix my unanswered emails problem – 30+ emails sitting in my inbox about open source projects right now.


• Finish articles I’m writing including:
  
  
  
  • Why jQuery
  
  
  • Part4 of Media Temple Setup : Deploying web applications
  
  
  • Post-Intro of Media Temple Setup : Why Media Temple
  
  
  • Developer’s Guide to Corporate Communications
  
  
  • Why CakePHP
  
  
  • Developing for Big Business
  
  
  • More…

• Write version 2 of the blog including better UI and easier navigation.
• Change the website’s design to actually reflect who I am.
• Code an Open Source Ad system.
• Code a collection of JavaScript/Ajax widgets to work inherently with CakePHP.
• Revamp/add features to each of my code examples.
• Write tutorials for the following platforms:* PHP

• MySQL
• ASP.NET (VB/C#)
• Ajax
• Flash/ActionScript
• Windows
• JSP/Java
• Search Engine Marketing
• Add my design portfolio.
  Keep in mind, these are just things off the top of my head that have been rolling around for a long time. This doesn’t include my full time job or the web application/ajax framework that I am building on the side.

This all seems pretty crazy to do all this work for free, but I feel strongly that this is something that I need to do and continue on with. My career is built on top of the open web and I can’t give up, or say it is too much work to do. I’m sure the fruits will come from the labor, because they always do when you believe and live for someone higher than yourself.