Feels good to be FOSS'ing again

After a happy-daddy-induced hiatus from contributing to FOSS in the last few years, I have to say it feels great to be in that sphere once more. I quite recommend it (/smiles and points, infomercial style).

The few projects I’m working on and have or am about to release are not only motivating from a software perspective, but at the human level as well. A request for a peer review has led me to meet more like-minded people, if only virtually, and the in and off thread intellectual stimulation that has ensued is in and of itself retribution enough to me. Bonus: The threads have so far been focused and I’m getting some really valuable contributions.

Gotta love it. And sure, I will consider the outpour of VC funding that is sure to follow.
Uh uh, will too. ;p

Here’s an update on the recent days progress:

• wpRedirect 1.0 was released last week, preceded by 1.1, which adds WordPress caching into the equation to be fair to those cute little cycles in server land. Bah, okay, ‘coz I was looking for an avenue to play around with WP_Cache. Busted!
• wpDirAuth is nearing its first official release, after the forum thread and miscellaneous other review requests led (recurringly) to some helpful insight on the portability, as well as coincidentally, on the licensing aspects of the project. I still have to formalize the end-user documentation and wait for a few more reviews (/me liky tight security) and we should be on for the 1.0 release.
• Moostick is a yet to be published Mootools-related project I’ve been toying with. It’s a bit on the over-engineered side for its current purpose (unobstrusive JS news ticker), but I’m planning on developing the library with a slew of features on the longer term. For now, there’s not much in the way of end-user documentation for it yet (always the last step), but the source, code docs and examples are all available publicly for pre-release reviews.

On this, time to hit the sack, because I’m having as much fun at work and I do need my beauty slee… err, I need to lay down for a while, manly and all… 😉