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Everything Else, Ideas and Sorts

Things on my mind

OK, so I am a little late in posting something for the New Year. Now that college football season is over, there is less distractions for me on the TV. In my last post, I mentioned that my only New Year’s resolution was to take down the Christmas Tree. Well, I have done that, so this year is a success.

Now for some of the code stuff going on, more applications appear to be on the horizon. Some are big for a project, others are a couple of things that should be able to be completed fairly quickly. Some will have newer, “flashy” things on them, more integrated AJAX and what not.

But the real excitement is the new MacBook Pro 17″. I was hoping they would do that one soon, and now that they have, I think I want to get it. I just need to convince my wife that it is the right investment to do. Maybe I need to take on a few different projects here and there to help me out to get that new MBP. Then again, I really do not need any new hardware really. I just like getting hardware, especially when it comes with a possible 8G of RAM.

One hope of mine is to return to the UK with my family, possibly moving there. My kids are still younger, so the impact on them would not be as bad as it would be had they been teenagers. Yeah I know it sounds odd for me to want to immigrate to the UK, but that is what I feel would be best for my family. I can not really explain it, just a feeling I have.

So much for the musings and ramblings I have done. Next post will be about some code stuff. Most likely going again in the vein of CakePHP.

Everything Else

Ghost Town

I did not post on Monday, which I really wanted to do. I am studying for the Zend Certification, but may have to put it off based on work load, and family obligations. Do I think I can just take the exam and pass it? Well, I am not that conceited, but I am sure I may be able to pass it on a good day. However, test taking is not one of my strengths, so even if I knew everything on the test, I may still fail the test. So studying really helps me go through the exam work, and then helps me to get through the anxiety of tests.

And there is also new work things I am doing on the side. Most involve CakePHP, some involve just doing some very basic PHP work. So I am doing those and having less time to actually blog. And let’s not forget football season is now in full swing, so I spend a good portion of my Saturday afternoons watching college football and doing some studying.

Hopefully next week I can make a couple of posts, and hopefully I will make a couple of posts per week.

The next post will probably deal with more of the CakePHP work I am doing. (Working on a “social” calendar, like there isn’t already 2000 of them already).

Everything Else, Ideas and Sorts

New Theme for this site

I redid the theme for the site, and moved it to 2.6.1. I am not going to even remotely claim that this is a visually pleasing site, nor will I ever claim it will win for the best site design. However, what made me change it was that I was not exactly enamored by any of the themes, and decided to do one myself. I looked for how to do this, as I have messed around with Photoshop before, and have become brilliant at hacking things around in Photoshop. But I took a few tutorials on how to do some stuff. This design is based from those tutorials. For those who would like to know, I went to these sites:

That was just some of them. I may do more, but I am also teaching myself Objective-C/Cocoafor the Apple/iPod/iPhone. But if there are any good links out there for Apple tutorials, let me know, because I may just be Googling the wrong phrases.

Applications, Everything Else, Ideas and Sorts, PHP

Finally back up

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After a few years of deliberating and going thru different iterations of site code, I have returned to the WordPress world and will write at the very least, the weekly entry in the blog. This will definitely have some issues as I see, as I am still deciding on the correct theme. But that will all be settled some time soon.

I have set up a few categories as of right now, and may add some more, but may not have to add any at all.

Current projects I am working on includes my full time job working with Fox Entertainment building online applications in PHP. Working with other side projects that include CakePHP for a local non profit organization, developing applications for the iPhone/iPod and another project to develop the plugin applications for those mobile apps on the Mac.

If there are any questions, then let me know.