Looking Back
Remember when I said that October was a tumultuous month?
Well, that was certainly true.
But, O what a span of a single month can do to the world! November was definitely much more exciting and troublesome, at the same time, than October.
The US and global economies fell even further, staggering on the precipice of complete and utter collapse.
The US presidential election finally came– and went. And along with it were the hopes and expectations and promises made to the American people. Now, reality is setting in, and people have begun to ask the real questions about the new President-Elect. How well he comports himself and gets himself out of all of the entanglements that he’s currently in will definitely test his mettle and his deal-making skills. And where’s all of the “change” that we all can believe in? What happened to getting started with all of the wonderful improvements to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness immediately after Election Day? Hmm…
And speaking of change: Back here at Javamancy, we’ve had more than our fair share of “change”. For starters, a bunch of significant third party software upgrades, including some scary security bugs that were fortunately identified and addressed. And the UI changed (hopefully much more to your taste)! Lots of fun with new graphics and styles; but not to be outdone, our posts have kept on comin’ in. After all, there’s plenty of news that’s been comin’ down the road to Javamancy… 
… Now about that ‘road: A couple more bumps in the road for mobile phone competitors, and RIM [RIMM] is finally getting back at Apple [AAPL] and Google [GOOG] for beating it at its own game… with yet another BlackBerry. But is it any good? We reviewed the current state of affairs, with a brief nod to the last sanity check we had a few months prior.
Last, but definitely not least, the New Xbox Experience tops the list of the large-scale network rollouts this month, and while the results have not rocked the worlds of every Xbox gamer, it definitely kept the Xbox 360 console and the LIVE service in the minds of gamers, young and old, wicked and noob alike.
Looking Forward
So, there was plenty of excitement in November.
But what about this month?
There are a lot of things we are, or should be, looking forward to– in December.
The long-awaited (and announced) release of WordPress 2.7 didn’t happen in mid-November. It didn’t happen at the end of the month, either. While there has been progress made in the pre-release versions of the software, it seems that it has gotten delayed. We’re all waiting for this to arrive, and the current expectations are now before the end of the year. That means that, once WP 2.7 is released, we’re gonna be very busy working on the enterprise upgrade.
I wonder if they need the services of someone such as myself to monitor and manage their release and change management cycles? Or just configuration management, hmm? If they asked nicely, I’d certainly give it plenty of serious consideration.
There are still plenty of new improvements and modifications on tap for Javamancy. More on these as they pop up (or even a bit more they’re released into the wild).
Even scarier is the notion that more than just Javamancy will be getting further renovations here. Say, a new commerce deal blog/site? Or a dev tech info site?
You’ll just have to wait and see. 
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