I believe it is the side projects that help keep me balanced as far as creativity and assurance that my skills in different areas don’t go stale.  I’ve been helping my brother with his sites, which I am in the process of working on a revamp of his kids site that will be running on MindTouch.

One other project that I just started last week is a mini php script to monitor my websites and alert me when they are down.  There are many Web Site monitoring services out there like Pingdom,  but typically they charge if you want to have it ping faster than every 30 min and I wanted to have a service that I could run that would ping at any frequency along with helping to improve my PHP chops.  When I’m done I’m going to open source it and allow others to benefit from it.

Other than that I have some other ideas I need to follow through on, Support Awards is doing great.  Voting is nearing the end (next week).  I’m excited to watch it grow and to implement some new features.

Been really busy this week with a release of MindTouch coming out tomorrow.  We are ramping up some more at MindTouch and will be looking to bring on some more people to do technical documentation.  If you are someone that would be interested in working for MindTouch doing technical documentation, shoot me an email at coreyg ]at[ mindtouch ]dot[ com