I’ve managed to spend a little time on some projects, working on AJAX stuff and a hex map editor mostly of late, the latter using the free download of the Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition. It’s not bad for free, and there’s plenty of freedom to do as you please with a finished application, even for commercial use. I’m still not convinced by the C++/Visual Basic dumbed down hybrid that is C#, it’s too Microsoft specific for my liking, even with Mono bringing .Net to Linux. What’s wrong with C/C++? Nothing, that’s what :)

Drupal has been sucking up a good chunk of my time too, as I’ve been tinkering with a gaming resources website idea. Drupal is pretty good, when you finally discover how things are done, but getting it to work just right is a real art form. It’s probably the same with most CMS software, they can’t make it absolutely configurable to satisfy everyone’s needs. But I’m certainly having more fun with it than I was with Joomla, that just seemed to waste my time. I’m not saying it’s no good for anyone, just that I couldn’t get my head round it.