4 days ‘til Christmas
Mon, December 21, 2009 · 10:21 PM
I’m almost two weeks into my to-do list, and I’m making some headway (as well as accruing some minor setbacks). Here’s where I’m at
Help my wife with her finals- I can’t take much credit for this as should did the hard work. But I will brag on her
Help Tanya launch her new site- I’ve still got figure out how the tabs will work, but that’s it- Finish the official launch on Canyon Creek Online v3.0 - Minor setback: This won’t happen until after I get home from Indonesia. The team and myself are just too busy
- Launch The Gas Gurus with my good friend Sam - On the list for Wednesday
Possible jump on board with fightpastor.com- I chose not to get involved as the ‘web guy’.- Plan out a few personal projects I’m dreaming of (WebApps) - Still in work
Here’s a little more info:
Tanya’s site looks great. She did a fantastic job designing it, and I must say the back-end ExpressionEngine integration is top-notch. This was a fun project to implement. I got to do it from beginning to end and Tanya was super easy to work with. My two favorite sections are the blog and portfolio. They both turned out great especially the typography and user interface, respectively.
I’ve been reading 24 Ways - “an advent calendar for web geeks” - and have enjoyed some great articles. One in particular related to my last list item - “Plan out a few personal projects”.
Elliot Jay Stocks, wrote about pet projects. Elliot talks about 7 reasons why have a pet project (or multiple pet projects) is a good idea. I felt like I could relate to most of them, but two of them really stood out for me: (1) to fullfill your own needs and (2) to raise your profile.
I want to start pet project that I can use. Moreover, I hope that the project is so useful for me, that others might find it useful. I believe and Elliot talks about this being a natural flow into raising your online profile.
Being a relatively new to this field/industry, I feel it’s important to find ways to get involved and get my name out in the web design community. I hope that my upcoming projects help take me there.
Ultimately I think Elliot left off one major point. Self-Development.
I don’t want to mention my new projects yet (I will as I develop a better scope), but I’m doing them to learn new technologies. There are two in particular. I want to build a fully JavaScript (with the use of jQuery) application that feels as natural as Mint. And I want to build something using CodeIgniter to help with future ExpressionEngine Projects.
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