Cleaning House

Published in Fiftyfoureleven on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Just a short post to keep the peeps out there informed on the goings on back here!

The API series, published every Wednesday, will not be published for the next two weeks (November 30th, December 7th).

After publishing the tag articles, I need to finish integrating tags into the CMS, and with over 350 links waiting to be published in the resources, there is a bit of work that I want to do behind the scenes before I roll out any more API articles. I also need to get some of the resource categories cleaned up, but that's another story.

Anyway, that's it for now!

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