Now that the Quizilla site has officially launched, I can point you at the video interview I did in the Netherlands as part of the Dutch Joomla Day event there last month.
I had a blast there, and really enjoyed the energy and enthusiasm. Joomla has had a pretty rough existence, and it was a pleasure to be around such optimistic people 
It was only a matter of time before the new look was chosen, and we’re sticking with our pick of the Aurora template from the JoomlaJunkie Template Club. The guys have always been nice and helpful, with some pretty promising design.
We chose Aurora because we can make it look how we want easily, and can also port it to make the blog, which happens to be powered by Wordpress, also look consistent to the Joomla powered main site.
We’re hoping to get the integration and setup done this week, so we can spend next week with focus on the new mitchitized site.
We got some pretty interesting announcements and articles coming soon as well, so this blog should be a consistently interesting read for a while, now that the vacation is over…
The SML Blog, formerly known as “Spacemonkey(b)labs”, has met a most unseemly and gruesome demise. First neglected, then ridiculed, and finally destroyed with both incessant software updates and errant (and somewhat clumsy) SQL experiments.
Although we loved the blog, and still love the engine that powered it (Typo), a decision has been made to use PHP tools for all of the SML websites exclusively from this point forward.
The Rails stuff will be used exclusively for all of the upcoming mitchitized sites, as well as several additional projects that have not been announced.
(We haven’t announced them yet, as we’ve been too busy blowing up the SML Blog.)
Rest assured the content and comments from the blog have been saved (thank you Postgresql!) and will resurface when we decide what the new PHP-based blog engine will be, and how it will be implemented.
As there are a ton of side projects coming up, we’re going to be very un-web-developer-like and resist the temptation to write a whole new blogging engine from scratch. Other than a decent layout this should be rather quick.
Again, apologies for the downtime (Mom seems to be the only person that has noticed so we don’t think it should be too big of a deal) and feel free to check back later.
Um, that is all.
