Missed Feb…and March

Well seems two whole months have gone by without any updates to this blog. So let’s see if I can recap things.

Worked first part of Jan on the Mindshare site redesign. Take a look www.mindshare.net. This would turn out to be my 6th WordPress site. Using WordPress is so easy. It’s pretty much PHP functions underneath. No special template tags to work with.

Been working a lot of hours these last few weeks on a client project. Can’t say here who the client is. But they’ve seems to really been booking my time lately. It’s been all custom PHP work. This client uses a system I build back in August 2005. There are no less than 26 forms in use on this site. No add an online survey as well.

Just this past weekend I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2 from 1.5.2 which was the version I initially loaded here back during Thanksgiving. Thanks again Matt for a great product. PhotoMatt

Have been playing around with DOMScripting these last few months also. I don’t refer to it as AJAX. I’m just funny that way. Maybe because many of my co workers and peers are all on the AJAX bandwagon. Getting me back into JavaScript development. Though I have been working on development of a file viewer with tree-view. The inspiration came from a DHTML book I was reading from SitePoint.com. I’ve added more functionality but have not had tome to get back to it. I do want to release version 0.01 soon.

Attended SXSW this March 2006. I do enjoy the 4 days of fellow geeks being huddled together to converse and get our geek on. Good times. Met many more people and old friends from last year. I pretty much attended a trac of sessions on Accessibility and Web Standards.

Spoke to a good friend Armando from Houston a few weeks back. He and I worked together at SYSCO Foods. Great guy, and great programmer. I miss just being in his shadow.

Look for more posts early this week. I’ve got some comments and question in my head I need to get out on paper.

About Paul Menard

Mis-placed Texas Geek now living on North Carolina. Lover of all things coding especially WordPress, Node.js, Objective-C and Swift. Love to work on interesting projects and come away with some new knowledge. Trying to keep my head on while I try to staying abreast of all the latest technologies. Lover of books and cats.