Just wanted to update y'all on current happenings since I terminated my daily rants a while back...

I've been working under the covers on a new web project; which takes all that I've learned building this here website and social spaces in general and pushes it into a new realm.

The thing about CMS software is that they all suck. Some suck worse than others, but they're all really, really bad. Most of them try to be all things to all people - and as a consequence fail miserably at being anything to anybody. I guess I've been guilty of that myself.

I'll be putting up a serious contender over the next several months to show that the situation doesn't need to be so abysmally abysmal. Oh yeah, and it will be open source, extensible, yada, yada. While basically working securely and outperforming any of the competition - without resorting to caching to make up for the sucky performance; like everybody else does.

In order to accomplish this, I'm not even going to try to create something that is all things to all people. Apache2.x+, php5.x+, mysql5.x+ and English only. I've re-written my existing website engine to be leaner and meaner and am currently adding some core functionality back in, whilst tossing 90% of the code that nobody (but me) ever used.

I've boosted performance by a factor of 4 at least, and will be reducing the number of database queries per page to under 10 on average (from a current average of 20-35); still way under the market leaders which hammer the database several hundred times for each and every page - and hit the file system an equal number of times. That's piss poor engineering and an embarrassment to any serious software developer. 

Security on each object has been radically simplified - however is extremely robust and verifiable.

Stay tuned...