I think the problem is that I don’t know what I want in a CMS. So far I’ve tried WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and textpattern. The problem is that all of these are pretty good. (with the exception of Joomla which I didn’t like very much) I like the simplicity of WordPress, the features of Drupal and the way Textpattern is customised.

I could perhaps get away with using one of these along with a lot of plugins, but I’m kinda liking the idea of writing my own CMS from scratch. Even if I don’t succeed, it might tell me something about the inner workings of a web application.

In other news

I’ve sort of begun a small project to turn my fathers old X-Y plotter into a vector printer by hooking it up to an Arduino and control it serially through USB. So far I only have one adapter, so I can only control one input at a time, but I generated a sine-wave on the Arduino and managed to visualize it on the plotter using its built-in sweep.

I’m not entirely sure about how I’m going to make the software on the computer end. I’m thinking about using Python, wxpython and pyserial because out of all the stuff I’ve programmed, Python has been the easiest language for me to turn an idea into code. I’ll also have to learn a thing or two about vector math since I havn’t started reading math at that level yet, but I’m hoping to begin my studies again this fall.

So yeah, that’s pretty much all I have to report at the moment. I’m going to write a more in-depth post tomorrow about how I’m going to be making the vector printer.