I haven’t been playing blog lately because I’m being all trendy and building a facebook application instead. Every free hour and a few of the hours usually allocated to sleep have been usurped in alignment with my new high calling: php, mySql, fmbl, and fql with a bit of pain in the area of mock-Ajax mixed in. I’ve never coded in any of these ‘languages’ before, but they seem close enough to actionscript that I’m generally surviving. That, and I have a cookbook. I’m realizing that I have more O’Reilly cookbooks than food cookbooks. Ungood for my domestic life, but a distinct sense of rightness regardless.

I’m making a *super fabulous* app for WOWIO, and should the code gods smile upon me, I should see the light of alpha in a week or so. But the step I need to take now, now, now is cleaning house. I have a big mess of code that does a few things well, but takes a million years to run because I have ‘required-once’ d all my favorite scripts everywhere, and with all this extra code facebook is consistently chocking on parsing the whole damn thing. So instead of making new charming functions, today will be dedicated to making all things tidy without breaking anything along the way.

If I was a better person, I might have tidied along the way, but this is the mess of learning how and making at the same time. I love my new hobby, and like cooking much prefer cleaning my code to cleaning my house.

work in progress sans mock-ajax: