Yep, I haven't posted much lately. Been pretty busy with a few things.

Firstly and most importantly, I've been moving and getting settled into a new house with my fiancee  kaboukie - We got a great new place that's HUGE and designer and in a great community with low crime and a lot of hi-tech neighbors. So I've been doing a lot of woodworking to build new furniture and desks for us to work on, built a new 7-panel flat panel harness and MAN it looks great with the panels on it! The moving and settling in are still a work in progress, but it's beginning to settle down a little now.

What my focus and attention are moving to now is a rewrite of the current StickyPaws project updating it to Mojolicious - the new Perl-based web framework that the new portions of FurBuy are written in. Since Mojo has much better separation for MVC, moving StickyPaws (and later FurBuy, I'll get to that) to it means that Kam can work on the presentation while I work on improving and adding back-end functionality. Or vice-versa as necessary. Good news is that I have login and the image gallery viewing pretty much done now, I just have all of the other, more trivial views and interaction to convert still, along with adding some new features that will be much simpler with the move to Mojo. I'm guessing that StickyPaws will remain the priority for the next few months.

Where's the FurBuy refresh/refactor then? Well, it was put on hold for a few months due to some miscommunications with various members of our team. And with school starting up again soon, we're not certain how much bandwidth Kam will have for working on a new UI. If we're lucky, she can work it into her classes as part of her class work and kill two birds with one stone. The jist is that the current Beta UI is not going to be what we move forward with - Kam will be redesigning the look and feel again from the ground up. And new pieces of functionality may be added to FurBuy using Mojo and the current look/feel in the interim. We expect more major work to get done on FurBuy around the Winter Break later this year.

For logistical reasons, we're placing the StickyPaws Beta at a higher priority than the refresh on FurBuy. We want to roll out StickyPaws (final name QED - we have some ideas and are considering coming up with more still) to start getting eyeballs and interest generated there first, which will help drive business and interest to FurBuy since the two will be integrated. This is an important step for us because we intend to show off a lot of modern web features that we hope will help guide the furry community into the next era of online connectivity and cloud networking. How exciting! =)