A night of change….. (and more dots…)
Well in about an hour I am going to start taking down CMCentral.com - no, were not closing up shop, but unvieling some new things, for one, our new look & feel - which leads into other resources slowly coming back online (aka TheChart) and things like Chat (once I get my new linux server online @ the office).
The changes will be going through the entire site, and some articles will be “broke” for about an hour as I re-generate all the old content to the new template format, so I am re-directing all traffic to a “Please Excuse Our Mess” note - but all in all it’s looking good, we worked out a lot of the issues we had hoped to have done on last Friday, but it escaped my mind “Thanksgiving Weekend!” so thankfully we all got in on it this week, and tonight is the night.
One thing I MAY add is a link site wide to the forums, I have been toying with the idea, this way users could tie in a constant track at top of their status (logged in/logged out) and always see if they have any new Private Messages - but it’s quite a bit of SQL so maybe after things level out with the new design.
As for the more ….. dots - random fun, as I am excited that tomorrow my ReplayTV shows up, so I get to set it up and get it recording some shows, and according to a few Mac/PC sites I can use their software to network into it, and download the raw MPEG files, so I can re-format and take my TV shows on my Treo, or Tungsten T3.
Lastly, if anyone is feeling wild and wanting to get me a Christmas Present, feel free to get me any XXL shirt from ThinkGeek.com, iMac, iPod Video, Cannon Digital Rebel (or similar DSLR camera), Plasma/LCD TV, iTunes Gift Certs, B&N Gift Certs (need more reading), etc. I need to make a real list, but as usual there’s nothing I can think of off hand. Feel free to be creative.
