I'm just finishing up the last few items on some "day-job" projects. It's been countless all-nighters and the "spare time" that I had hoped to spend on my pet projects had shrunk to zero. Unfortuntely this often happens when daily life totally takes over with deadlines and task lists and meetings and conference calls and everything else that comes development projects.

And as project delays and unforeseen other problems pile on, the first thing that is affected is, of course, one's spare time. But, I guess that's life. There is no real solution to this, except maybe to win the lottery. What a nice thought: financial independence and plenty of spare time to spend on pet projects!

Well, in the meantime, back here on planet Earth, I'm again looking at my various OSS projects it's time to pick up the pieces and dust off the code. So much work and so little time. But at least it's fun work as opposed to "must-do-work-or-we-can't-pay-the-bills" work.

The thing is that when you run your own OSS project(s), no matter how small, you really start to appreciate all the effort that other people have put into theirs. I often browse Drupal.org site and it's just amazing how much effort the community has put into not just Drupal itself, but also into all the related projects, support, documentation, design, and a million other things.

I think it's a real inspiration to see what what other people have contributed, and I feel it's now time to bring all my own projects up to production level so that they can be used. So, here we go: let's dust off some code and let's get this thing going again.

-martin.