Things to come in 2008

2007 is now over, and what a poor year it's been for athena, big year for Windows Live, but 2008 promises even more

In Feb 2008 Athena will be released, shortly followed by Athena 2008 for Community Server 2008.

When athena finally get's released, it'll signify the last of my big themes for a while.  Athena's the big one tho.

Caching will be prominent in Athena, along with a new control panel interface to help manage the Athena Config file.

The CP interface will actually run in side the theme configuration page, and will launch in a pop up off of that.  Should be interesting programming.

Also in Athena will be Styles, customisable chunks of code.

Variants have been dropped as no one uses them, styles will mostly take over the use of Variants, just with not so much customisation.

Also making an appearance in 2008 will be The Migrator Project's First release.  I'm expecting this to be released in March, with the main core of the program ready by Feb, just before Athena.

Making it's second release, 1st in 2008, will be CSLive.  Complete with a Windows Live Search Provider, to take over from the default inbuilt one.  This will be a great addon for large sites who can't afford to spend all that money on the enterprise search, as well as people who have customized their site (like me) with custom URL's.

Along with the WLSP will be translator modules, Silverlight registered BB tags in all applications, not limited to blogs.

A very cool Control Panel addon to manage all of these features, with it's own page editor, so you don't even have to load up visual studio to install some of the addons.  Now I know you'll be blown away by that.

Concepts of the Control Panel's editor should be going up on Codeplex in Jan time.

Hopefully you'll really like what I do with CS Live, it's going to be interesting none the less.

Now if you think I've been concentrating on the Q1 2008, you'd be right, as I yet don't know what Q2-Q4 will hold in store for me, but you can count on CS Live being expanded apon, along with The Migrator Project.

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