As I mentioned in February, I've had a blog and site overhaul underway for awhile. Like a lot of developers, I always find it hard to take the time to work on my own site.

With the aid of the excellent Matt Brett, I've got a new theme in place for this site. I can't thank Matt enough -- he's been a pleasure to work with, and I highly recommend him.

I've scrambled a bit this evening to get this in place as part of the May 1 CSS Reboot event. Not sure if I'll have time to crank out the new Pearified.com design by the evening of May 1, but I'll do what I can. If I can't get to it, I'll certainly roll it out before the end of the week.

Please let me know if you find any issues or errors with the new site -- any that you find are my fault, not Matt's.

Along with colleagues and good friends Oren Michels and James Gross, one of the days in April was my last as a Feedster employee.

My time at Feedster, while brief at eight months, was tremendously valuable and I am grateful for the opportunity to have been part of such a great team. It has been a particularly enriching experience both personally and professionally.

I sincerely believe that with Feedster's revamped PHP 5 code base, they're in a fantastic position to continue building and scaling toward all their future holds. I look forward to following each chapter of their upcoming successes.

Most of all, I'm thankful for the many friends I've made along the way. Looking forward to working with you guys again in the future -- it's a small valley, after all.

I've switched to WordPress from Serendipity for a variety of reasons. Those of you who get my feed via Planet PHP, sorry about the double-posting if that's what winds up happening. Heads up to those wanting to switch to WordPress from s9y via "import from RSS" functionality: WordPress will not follow the links in your s9y-exported RSS.

So, I'll be importing comments made to old posts as time permits.

This blog theme is also temporary -- I'm in the midst of a complete site makeover with the aid of the talented Matt Brett. So stay tuned for the next incarnation; this is just a design intermission to make the site more readable in the interim. Meanwhile, bbbrrrrryyyy brrrreeeport and all that.

Time to toss my hat into the fray. I've always been just One Geek Typing ... but now I'm typing into a blog engine. Oooo.