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Happy New Year!

It’s just gone midnight here in England (I’m in Exeter for the new year), so Happy New Year to all. Top weblog-related priority for 2006: upgrade this aging heap of badly written object-oriented PHP to something better. I’ll try and get some good content flowing more regularly as well.

Best wishes and good luck for 2006!

Posted 1st January 2006 at 12:21 am

This is Happy New Year! by Simon Willison, posted on 1st January 2006.

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12 comments

  1. Why not just use WordPress? I mean, it would be nice to see a weblog powered by Python, but why reinvent the wheel? Happy New Year!

    Dante - 1st January 2006 00:44 - #

  2. Happy new year (and birthday), Simon!

    Adrian Holovaty - 1st January 2006 01:06 - #

  3. Happy New Years to you too!

    Ben Metcalfe - 1st January 2006 01:46 - #

  4. Happy New Year, Simon! May 2006 bring you even closer to everything you want to accomplish. I'm surprised that you haven't already switched over to Django, but you've been rather busy lately, haven't you?

    Yvonne Adams - 1st January 2006 04:19 - #

  5. Dante: I'm really not expecting to build a better tool than WordPress, but I need a live Django site of my own to experiment with. I've also got a few ideas I want to play with that would probably be tougher to implement on top of another system (even one as extensible as WordPress) than on something I built myself with Django.

    Simon Willison - 1st January 2006 11:18 - #

  6. One of my goals for '06 is to become productive with Django. A good web framework is something I've looked long and hard for and I think Django will be just what I need as I migrate from PHP hackery.

    But first I must figure this Python business out. ;)

    Happy New Years everyone!

    Stephen - 1st January 2006 13:45 - #

  7. Why not just use WordPress? I mean, it would be nice to see a weblog powered by Python, but why reinvent the wheel?

    Because it would be the mainstay of geekdom: A Project! Besides, diversity in one's choice of CMS can only be a good thing.

    FatBusinessman - 2nd January 2006 12:48 - #

  8. Happy new year, Simon! Yes, a little late to the party, but it's the thought that counts.

    If you're upgrading the back end, does that mean we can expect a redesign of everthing else, too? 'Cause I actually quite like this green... and losing Beaker would be tantamount to the end of the world!

    Andrew Hayward - 2nd January 2006 15:41 - #

  9. Well, This should be neat to watch. You should go for one of those "live redesigns" - I've always enjoyed partially broken websites ;) Happy new year bro. - Dustin

    Dustin - 2nd January 2006 18:22 - #

  10. Re-inventing the wheel is fun! I was in Newquay for New Year. CRAZY.

    Small Paul - 3rd January 2006 00:35 - #

  11. Have a good year; at least mine is getting of to a good start...

    Robert Wellock - 4th January 2006 14:29 - #

  12. Happy New Year Skunk, Now get your arse over to kiwi.vg to say hello.

    Rex Omar - 13th January 2006 16:08 - #

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