I've spent most of the last two weeks with my head burried in code. After spending much of the last year mulling over how to improve OpenThought, what to do finally hit me, and I've been inspired enough to spend days on end not doing much else but coding.

The result is what I consider to be some pretty cool stuff, and what will soon be called "OpenThought 2". Details of the new version can be found on the openthought.net website. You can download OpenThought-1.99_03.tar.gz here.

The architecture is about where I want it, my primary concentration at the moment is now bug fixes, writing tests, and cleaning up the installer. I'm sure some new features will work their way in, but for the most part it's where I want it for the next release.

Part of whats been done is to clean up the JavaScript, to make it easier to have varying frontends. Currently, it's written in Perl, but it'd be great to have it available in additional languages. If you think you might like to help port the frontend to another language, let me know, I'll try and lend you as much support as you need to do that. There's only 17 functions, many are only 5 lines, and one of those 17 is the constructor :-) Any language is helpful.

I'm really pleased to see where this has led, and I'm eager to get the next release out the door.