What Should I Write About Next?

I’m sorry about the lack of updates these past few days. I’ve been very, very busy wrapping up a few things in my personal life. I should have a significantly greater amount of time next week. I have a few ideas for some other coding related posts to address in the coming weeks. Whenever I get ideas, I write them down. Here is what I have so far:

• How to create a two column interface that mimics the appearance of two list boxes next to each other that can have their elements dragged between them. This would be an advanced tutorial on Scriptaculous and CSS. As always, no markup would be placed in the source.
• A database abstraction library written in PHP. I have two parts to this idea. One is a simple abstraction layer that you’ve seen in many places. I would explain why they are designed the way they are. The second part would be a new library that most of you have probably never seen that allows for database agnostic querying. I’ve written this class for usage in one of my side projects, but I never finished some of the more advanced functionality.
• Finish CleanCSS according to the planned features listed on its page
• Originally I was planning on writing a menu system that mimicked the Mac taskbar. However, I didn’t want to stall the launch of this site to get that working so I ultimately abandoned the idea. I would write this library and explain how it works. I did some preliminary planning, and I noticed it’s a rather complicated idea to implement.
• dropAJAX is the name of the other JS library I plan to write. I want to create a Prototype extension library (sort of like CleanCSS) that makes adding simple (key word here) AJAX functionality into a site as easy as dropping this file into the site. Obviously AJAX requires a limited amount of server side scripting, and I would walk you through the bare minimum requirements needed to get it working. In fact, the AJAX that swaps pages on this site is about 40 lines of PHP and Javascript combined. It is not as hard as you think!

Now you know what is to come. I have very few, if any, readers since I have not published this site very much (feel free to spread it around though). However, if I get requests for a particular article to be given priority, I will definitely try to honor it. If you have ideas, I’m listening.

Some of these articles require a significant amount of planning and coding before I can present a real tutorial, so please be patient. I’ll try to update this blog as often as I can, but not every post can be super extensive and educational. =) I’ll try to keep things interesting though.