Written by John Wednesday, 06 August 2008 13:02
The tightness of my schedule is finally catching up with me. L., bless her, knocked out my business card in about 5 minutes. This is particularly heroic because I had planned to do it myself and was grumpy about her asking me questions and putting it together herself instead. It's a temporary thing, with a slogan I doubt I'll keep, but it's still a couple steps above a completely generic templated business card, for which I'm thankful. I had two other things to do yesterday, and I only got one down. Granted, it was a biggie – the site has been moved to a new Joomla template, and customized so that it has my business name, menus, etc.. These newer, fancier templates are definitely cool-looking, but they require a good bit more work than the free and simple ones.
That means that I have one major item for today – the review system. It is a complicated piece of software written by someone for whom English is not a native language. I have nothing against him, and the software itself is a pretty slick piece of work, but the help files are sparse and his comments on message boards are a bit tricky to digest sometimes. As of 7 PM on Wednesday I have activated the software and done some preliminary testing, but it is nowhere near to doing what I want it to do yet. That's unfortunate, because I help at my kickboxing school on Wednesdays and I'm keeping a firm 10PM bedtime this week so I'm rested for the weekend (normally I catch up on my sleep on the weekends). Even worse than usual, one of our students tonight is a police officer here in the middle of a split shift, so his firearm is secured in the office under lock and key, meaning I can't get in there and get online. So, despite plenty of quiet time when I could be doing dev work, instead all I can do is blog. So, hi!
Written by John Tuesday, 05 August 2008 13:01
So yesterday's action items were to get all of the generic content off of this site (check I think, gotta search around to make sure), get this blog (check!), the commenting system (check!), and the message boards (check!) functioning, and continue my correspondence with my interview possibilities (silence, alas). The message boards are giving me a little bit of a fit with presenting sub-boards alphabetically (and it's exactly as exciting to work on as it sounds) but they're up and not embarrassing. This blog is, obviously, functioning, although no one is reading it yet. Ask anyone who has started a blog, though; you're not insane talking to people who aren't there, you're just building momentum. Or something.