Personal hackathlon accomplished
These 3-4 days I have been coding day and night testing my limits which I used to do all the time. I thought I was getting rusty, but I am happy to see I can still focus after 27 hours of nonstop coding (3 hours break and another 13 hours). To be honest this hackathlon cost me a lot healthwise. To stay awake and focused smoked too many cigarettes while working. Now I am trying to chillout a bit.
I wrote a small scalable custom search module for a heavy loaded site using sphinx / mysql / php / memcached. That was really fun and challenging: discovering the awesome changes in the new version of sphinx and try to apply it to the search module. Hopefully it would be live soon.
A new start
I just deleted my old wordpress instance and installed a new one. Hopefully new starts would give me a chance to have a regular blog at last. (I am keeping my hopes pretty high)