So, I launched a personal project of mine yesterday which I’ve been working on-and-off for the last three or so years…

e107forge.org has been put in place to provide a single, easy-to-access location for e107 developers, plugin writers and theme coders to store and keep track of their projects, code and releases while working in conjunction with plugins.e107.org.

So what’s the difference between plugins.e107.org and e107forge.org?
The difference is the audience, while plugins.e107.org is aimed entirely at the end user who wants to be able to find a plugin easily and isn’t necessarily interested in the code behind the plugin. On the flipside, e107forge.org is all about the code and the developers, SVN and CVS access is available while providing a fully featured, easy-to-manage project page and allowing coders to collaborate together to work on a plugin. Rather than one developer writing a plugin and then another user making code changes and re-submitting the plugin, we can have collaborative developers drawn together by a particular plugin.

If you’re a developer wanting to get your code or project online but need some help along the way e107forge.org is here to help. If you’re a theme developer who’s keen to have a versioning system take care of the headaches of making minute changes here and there, e107forge.org is for you. We can provide SVN and CVS versioning control as well as bug trackers / issues / feature requests etc. It really is up to you when it comes to which features you want to use.

Well, today (Monday) I embark on a new chapter in my life – Red Hat certification. I have never been on an I.T. course before in my life (apart from humanities computing at uni). So it’s kinda weird considering it’s my profession. So tomorrow at 10am I’ll be in a classroom in Manchester taking a crash-course in linux system administration. I’ve been booked on the course for a few weeks now, so I’ve been trying to prepare myself as best I can for it. In truth the past four years that I’ve been using Fedora Core and CentOS have carved out a sense of trouble-shooting in me which I’m very confident with.

I remember the first time I was confronted with being forced to use the command line to administer a remote server. I was shitting my pants. I’d heard all the horror stories of people doing an rm -rf * in the wrong directory and losing everything on the box. So, looking back at all that and I realise now how far I’ve come since that day. I can now quite happily setup and break a system (on purpose) and try to fix it confidently on a live system.

To tell the truth I’m nervous and excited at the same time about this course. I really have no idea what the exam on Friday will entail and probably won’t have a full appreciation of it until the day itself. Wish me luck (even though I don’t really need it! hehe)