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So, I currently have 3 active projects that I am working on:

• Generic Plugin Engine
• About-Time - Time tracking for projects
• Truches CMS - not open, will roll into Taos Community once it is complete enough for actual use

• Hedwig - waiting for Plugin Engine to reach a usable state
• Taos Community - waiting to finish Truches and Plugin Engine to gain maturity

GPE seems to be finally rolling along, I need to work on writing tests for it, possibly this weekend. Looking forward to using it in Taos and Hedwig.

About-Time will be part of a larger project management tool. I am working with Kate on this. She has most of the db schema done and I am working on a Struts/Velocity front-end to it. I started the Hibernate mapping and she is working on finishing that while I do the front-end.

Truches is slowly rolling along, I have the page transformation basically working. It currently takes a url like whatever.com/index.html, looks up the corresponding xml file, parses it, places certain items into the VelocityContext and then calls the appropriate Velocity template to transform it. This then gets relayed back to the client as an html page. Very slick! I got this idea from Erik Hatcher and what he did with Blogscene. Next step is to nail down the xml format using an existing site (in this case TucsonUnderground and to start to templatize it, transform and work out those kinks. Once that's complete then I will be working on the db->xml transformation so that we understand exactly what data we will need to pull. A fair amount of work will need to go into generating the pages (we are going to be using a ContentBlock methodology along with Metadata), and I want the client-side to be fast! Joe will be helping me as soon as he gets back from Santa Fe. He's already done a fair amount on the db schema, so I will be looking forward to his help at that point.