Wow, was November ever a hectic month for me. Between working on Toast IT and TIGC I didn't even make it to 10k words on my NaNoWriMo entry.

In the end, though, Toast IT is doing fine (in fact, probably the best it's been since I became club president). TIGC is unfortunately on hiatus now, due to organizational issues that I won't get into (as well as OMDC scheduling their own game development event at the same time as ours, which certainly didn't help).

And so, after three weeks without blog posts, I'm finally writing in here again. So it might actually be worthwhile to keep an eye out on the site again! Especially since I'll be posting my NaNoWriMo entry up here shortly. (EDIT: It's up.)

Anyone remember skelgen, a tool by Paul Nettle for creating source code files from a template? I've been working on modifications to the program lately, but because of the licensing conditions and an inability to contact Mr. Nettle (and oh how I've tried), I'm simply writing a clone from scratch.

If any readers know Paul Nettle and could get him to contact me...

Drupal seems to have a recurring problem where the file system just doesn't want to work. It's getting to the point where I'd suggest people to use custom solutions (or another CMS) instead. Given that, it's not surprising that downloads are broken on this site again, and until Rob and I get it fixed, if you're looking for any of the downloadable content (projects or article attachments), you'll just have to sit tight for a bit. Sorry!

Or at least some of them are. Unfortunately I've had to put Drupal's download method to public as well as change some other things around to do it. So, now I can't keep track of downloads until I figure out just what is broken this time with Drupal. I swear, if I had the option to switch to a self-built ASP.NET site, I'd do it in half a second. Drupal is really becoming too much of a pain for me.

It's a Festivus miracle! After scratching and restoring (both files and database tables) coldacid.net is once again in working condition, and faster, too! I even have my precious download tracking working without a hitch. I even have my precious download tracking working once again. The only loss is Javascript Tools, and that's due to a problem with IE7 (which I do want to support).

On Boxing Day, as is tradition, I went downtown with my brothers to gawk at the goods on sale (and pick up a few at discount, generally at World's Biggest Bookstore and my favourite Toronto merchant, The Hairy Tarantula). This year I brought back with me an interesting book by Jim C. Hines called Goblin Quest.

This novel is amazing.