“Hemmingway”

Dunno about you, but I am liking this new theme. WordPress.com is finally getting enough themes to really start to differentiate all the blogs that abound, and while the theme set is still limited it’s far better than the opening days. Regulus especially is a great theme for its customisability, but I found this one to look especially nice =)
Will attempt to find some actual content for posting here at some point!

smartypress

Ok, so I’m totally a sucker for fancy new things, so when I see SmartyPress, I instantly go “Oh WordPress, won’t you please please please go over to Smarty Press?”, even though I want WordPress 1.6 as well.

Smarty is a templating library for PHP, and I still think we should have used it for our group project 3302 since it gives just enough power over the presentation that you get work done, but aren’t bogged down in catering for a templating system. “Enough power to shoot yourself in the foot with” is pretty much how it’s been put on the site itself. But yes, from Software Engineering standpoints, the seperation of things like these is vital. Imagine what it could do for WordPress themes. Very cool.

So SmartyPress 1.6 will definitely be something to look forward too, if it ever happens =) I’m going to go trial this on my local box and put it up for using on my site if it passes all the various simple stability tests.