As I mentioned in my previous post I am entering into SiteSprint and this website is my entry. While that makes it sound like a competition or a race it should be noted that isn't the aim of site sprint. SiteSprint puts this clearly on their website.

There are no awards.
There are no prizes.
You're doing this for you.

It's an interesting idea and struck home with me because I've got so many projects I want to and need to do but finding the motivation and time is sometimes tricky.

What I've done

• Dumped PHP and replaced with Django
• re-written my HTML and CSS
• Implemented a couple of simple apps and integrated some too (more of this later)
• Started writing text for all the pages (some are almost done)
• Automated deployment from github
• URL shortening - i.e. http://www.dougalmatthews.com/1 - or with a cheap shorter domain name

What I've got planned

• So far I've added my CV as markdown - I want to add a converter to .pdf and .doc
• I would love to add some simple spell checking - I'm terrible at making typos
• Get demos up for some/all of my projects
• Add some stylesheet and layout spit and polish
• Change the comment system - I'm considering adding an oauth twitter login.
• Write some tests! :)

The development approach that SiteSprint encourages is quite interesting. It's made me want to be more open, rather than secretly testing and developing locally. This is in a sense my Staging website, but its public. Therefore I would expect it to break on occasions but generally speaking it should be up most of the time if for no other reason than to stop Django and/or awaremonitoring emailing me each time and error is triggered!