Not a whole lot to say this week.
It feels like winter is finally here. Heather has worked hard to fight off any sign of cabin fever by inviting people over at every opportunity.
She entertained a group of women from her office, and then the next night we had a group over from church.
I had hoped to be able to post the updated build of the heatherandjordan.com front page, but I discovered again that CSS hacking is not my calling. I say hacking because my attempts at starting from scratch quickly reminded me that I don’t really have an eye for that kind of design. After having drop[ed back through plan ‘B’ and on to ‘C’ I have managed to hack up a template into something I like. There are just a few more touches I would like to incorporate before it goes live.
In somewhat related news I have had the chance to be part of a team conducting technical interviews at work. I wouldn’t say I am great at it, but it’s nice to feel like I can provide some guidance as to who might be joining my team. At the very least this gets me thinking about my own skill-set. It would appear that I have a very solid technical understanding of my little corner of the IT world. On the other hand, I am painfully aware that I haven’t really done anything interesting for a while.
In theory I can and should be doing a little bit of hobby programming just to keep learning new things, but it takes time and energy that I don’t always want to devote to the task. I think I start to understand why people work on open-source projects though, it lets you poke at problems wildly different than the ones at work.
This kind of loops back around to the web site overhaul, as the hold up is trying to something interesting with an image loading script project, but I spent way too much time in the CSS weeds over the weekend. Hopefully with that done I can dive back into java script and PHP to pound out the rest of this arguably simple feature.
If you have any great ideas for a little programming project that wouldn’t require a thousand hours of developer I might be interested… most of my project ideas suffer death from scope-creep before I have the first line of code saved. 🙂
-Jordan
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