Between home (getting this place into shape and looking forward to my personal site redesign), freelance (helping out with Tom’s blog once again) and work (three separate, concurrent, WP projects) I think I’m going to a bit mental with WordPress. Good mental. Hacker mental. But mental nonetheless.

Why mental? It’s rare for me to do so much server side coding. I’ve always done it- in moderation. This is absolute gluttony. All kinds of custom features, complicated, multi-template themes, etc. It’s all there. All I’m missing is a plugin and I’ll be working the full WordPress experience.

Which isn’t to say it’s all PHP all the time for me. As anyone who’s worked with WordPress knows, it’s a serious mix between server side code and good-old HTML + CSS and JavaScript, so I’m still able to push some boundaries with my core competencies- even while I’m stretching my brain with some semi-serious PHP.

Now if I could just work some Python into the mix, I’d be all set

I’m dying to share some of the work I’m doing. I’m super happy with the results so far.

Anyone out there doing any similar cross-training? I find it helps keep things interesting and ends up making me a better programmer when I get back to my home turf.

You?