Various ramblings
New job on the horizon, back to coding and hands on tech stuff
Aug 10th
As I’ve been working as a self-employed small contractor for 4 years out of the last 6, I can say that I’ve learned alot.
I’ve learned alot about business. I’ve learned alot about money… I’ve learned alot about ColdFusion, PHP, ColdBox, Model-Glue, Kohana, Wordpress, Drupal…. servers….. contracts….. etc… etc.. etc….
Most importantly though, I’ve learned alot about myself.
Through these years I’ve also gone through several changes in my life. Some changes directly impacted by work and some directly impacting my work.
I’ve got a wonderful little girl that gets me to think about just how fortunate I am to have such a wonderful little person in my life. Not only is it my responsibility to be an example for her and to teach her… but she also teaches me quite frequently.
I had taken a 14 week contract with a local company earlier in the year, back in mid-may.
Today I received a formal job offer by a company that I’m quite familiar with. I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to become part of this small business in an attempt to help them grow while I focus my time doing the things that I feel much more passionate about. That being getting my eyes back in code, the odd server and other technology related work.
I’ve learned this about myself….. that while I do love learning new coding skills, tech skills…. when coupled administration, marketing, sales…. contract negotiation…. contract drafting….. being a 1 man show burns me out. In fact, after these years of trying on my own…. being totally on my own…. it tires me just to think about it.
So with that, I look forward to putting my efforts back into the technology and less in all the other administrative tasks. I believe I’ve learned that this is where I belong!
Very long list of PHP frameworks
May 13th
Here’s a quick little rant before I post the link to the long list of frameworks…
Just a few months ago I was looking at frameworks. I had thrown myself in the fire of a PHP project and it’s really something that I’d never done from start to finish.
I thought using a framework would help me out a bit since this was to be my first “start to finish” PHP app. After looking at a few frameworks on really stuck out to me.
I’d been a bit familiar with MVC type frameworks from using Model-Glue in ColdFusion development and after using it in a couple of different projects I generally liked using an MVC framework.
So today, I’m just reading through me RSS reader and I found this blog post which was linked… this is a list of 79 PHP frameworks. I certainly would not have looked at all the options on that list….. and I still wouldn’t consider going through so many.
To link that long list with the few paragraphs above…. for that PHP project that I mention… well I had settled on number 7 on that list. Kohana.
Welcome to the new blog
Feb 6th
Over the last several years, I’ve run 2 different blog programs. BlogCFM and BlogCFC.
I wrote articles on anything that would come to mind on this domain… technology, sports… various ramblings… whatever.
In the last year, I started a couple of other blogs that were much more targeted to some of my interests. One such blog is where I write about my favorite hockey team…. another one that I started and admittedly haven’t written enough… is a blog on drumming.
I’ve spent the last 9 years working in technology. Working as a web application developer using primarily ColdFusion along side MySQL and/or MS SQL server.
I’ve also spent alot of time working with other technologies… Linux servers, Windows servers… PCs, Macs, Linux desktops….
So I thought I’d kick start this blog again and write stuff that has to do with my day to day activities.
Lately, I’ve been working with PHP quite a bit on a couple of projects. Some of the things I may write about are (simple) things that I learn using different technologies….. Lord knows what I’ll come up with. But it be related to what I work with or have interest in…. in technology.
So if you’ve stumbled onto to this brand new blog…. WELCOME!