What's It All For point Three?

I've spent a lot of the free time I have when I'm not being an IT Professional being an IT amateur and upgrading my website to a new version of PHP and my underlying web framework. I didn't expect this to take me a weekend, but I also didn't expect it to take me over a month. Things would have gone a lot faster if I upgraded it regularly as new versions came out - like I do when I'm being an IT Professional - and not waiting four years to upgrade. I don't know why I did this.

Things would also have gone a lot faster if windows clipboard didn't capture a space and put that into a filename on Sunday that took me three hours of debugging bootstraps and autoloading to realise why I had a missing Event class.

The end, at least, is in sight. I think I've come to the point that I can stop refactoring code so that things work exactly the same (but without deprecation warnings). And then I can start creating fun, new features. Like... Friendlier URLs. Automatic image upload resizing? Being able to see all entries across the years for a specific day/month on a single page? Auto loading new entries? Who knows. Surely there are some blog features that don't exist out there that justify me not just using WordPress... I have some ideas!

Based on the progress so far, there are some features I need to add to justify the extra effort I spent refactoring them. That includes: Building an API now that I have images, articles and even weathers associated with journal entries. Uploading more images. I need to post way more rollover images after I overhauled the backend to make it easier to post and maintain those.

Technically I also think my code is telling me to write more books.