Well, I learned a few new things over the past few days. Advanced and handy things. Things that will help this media blog be a lot more efficient.

There's still a long process of cleaning up some things and making the blog even faster. However, some of the new techniques that I'll be able to employ will work out very well.

The bad part is that it took me longer than I'd like to iron out some authentication issues. The new provisions also setup the ground work for a more advanced access control system. Though with all likeliness, the basic authentication system within CakePHP will work out just fine. I'm not really sure how many levels of access and restrictions a blog needs.

The other nice thing will be a more efficient system for handling files. This is very important and will speed up the application considerably.

So, moving forward with a stronger system is very exciting and though I'm now slightly behind schedule, I'm happy to keep moving with all this. 

The other interesting news is that I'll be implementing the Blueprint CSS framework. This will help standardize things and allow new themes to be created very quickly and easily for the blog.