It's just a week to go until GeekDinner July 2007 (Carnivorous Cantaloupe), happening on Thursday, 26 July 2007 from 18:30 until late at Krugman's Grill at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

It's great to see a whole bunch of names there of people haven't attended before, and that can provide new experience and insight to the growing Cape Town Geekdom.

I'm going to be giving a short talk (all the talks are intended to be about 5 minutes long) on Routes - a way to handle both handling incoming URLs and generating URLs internally in your web application.

Other currently-signed-up speakers include Dave Carman talking about wireless mesh networks (from his experience in Scarborough), Aslam Kahn on behaviour-driven development, A.J. Venter on Lazarus.  Oh, and then there's my favourite two former bosses: Alan Levin on the Cape Town peering situation, and Ian Gilfillan, probably with one of his now-famous interludes into things not entirely technical, but worth thinking about.

And, the wine sponsors for the May Geekdinner and this one, Getwine, are going to talk about the challenges involved in selling wine over the Internet in the local technology climate.

There's still plenty of room for new attendees, and still time to volunteer to talk on something.

Fearing I'd never actually getting around to making a neutral theme to put into my web log project, Gibe, I've now just bundled the BloggingPro theme by DesignDisease into the base release.

I've also bundled the tags plugin for an improved default experience.

And I've removed the custom Google search keyed to my domain.  You know, in case someone actually would like to use it on _their_ site and not mine...

Next release will have "pages" - just generic pages that aren't web log entries, so I can stop maintaining stuff in HTML manually.

And, hopefully, I'll be able to optionally support postmarkup for the editing of posts and pages.  Especially pages - custom postmarkup tags being defined in plugins would be very cool!

And then begins the descent into madness that is creating a from-scratch CMS system for Pylons (maybe using a TurboGears 2 template for Pylons), using the lessons learned from Gibe.  It is going to be called Mazarine (after the Mazarine Blue butterfly).