Well, I did do some digging into the Content Collective (also known as the "let's flame each other for the crappy music we listen to" groupware solution) code today. As is often the case when I am working on the Collective, 90% of the time was spent scratching my head, thinking "how could this be arranged so it will be just perfect?", fiddling with mostly imperceptible nuances, and entertaining notions that there must be a more elegant way to go about $task_at_hand. Oh, and I also spent a little time reading vim 6.0 documentantion.

Then, right around sunset, as I was still tweaking and fiddling, nowhere near having anything ready for production, I had a brainstorm. A way to revolutionize user interfaces for the future! Oh, but it would require some major reworking of the data structures, and the details were still (are still) foggy. But it could work. It would work. It will work.

The thought had me so excited that I had to get up, go outside, and take a jog / walk. "Move this piece of code here, and that piece of code there, and abstract that class into... Oh, but what about... ? And that can't work without doing.... Eww, major project there. Better scale that idea back a bit for now."

So anyway, the code as it stands right now is not runable. Not even close. The form things will take when they finally emerge remains to be seen. Fueled by sugar, caffeine, and music both holy and unholy, I shall forge onward. Long live the Collective!