Karen accuses me of being a faddy person, which I can only half deny. She claims mountain biking is a fad of mine, despite me having been in to it for more than half my life. Ok, so maybe the photography thing was a fad, but I learnt to use a camera properly and still like to. It's just that it's always hard to find the time to fit everything in. If only there really were that proverbial extra hour in the day.

You guys might have noticed my mind wanders from time to time as well. Remember SVG? Remember Puakma? Remember PHP? Remember Rails? And, most recently, what about DExt?

Yeah, what about DExt Jake!? I hear you say.

Well, for now I try to keep up with the what's going on with Ext — now in Beta, rather than Alpha stage and with a new website that gives an idea what the future holds. However, I decided to take a step back and get to grips with the level of JavaScript needed to really do it justice. Not only that but I want to make DExt independent of both Ext and other base libraries such as YUI or Mootools.

As with everything I do I want to make it actually of use to the largest number of you as possible. I like to think my solutions are "real world" and realistic. My plan for DExt is to make it a simple set of useful JavaScript addons for the average Domino developer. Things like session awareness, form validation, name pickers, date picker etc. All things I've done before, but all brought together in one easy to manage package.

That said, there are plans afoot for a team effort on an Ext-based Domino library, which sounds very interesting. As with anything I have no idea what will come of it or how long it will take. You'll just have to stick around to find out. Rest assured though, you've not heard the last of this.