Posts Tagged ‘pretty’

I’m on a mon­ster self-improvement kick, starting with learning Ruby on Rails, the hot new (old) web devel­op­ment lan­guage that may (or may not) be posed to turn the world of web applic­a­tions on its head. Either way, I plan to be pre­pared, and hope to be building things on Rails for cli­ents soon — once I’ve figured out how it all works, of course! For now, everything is still PHP-based, but it’s impressive to see how eleg­antly Ruby can handle some things that, in PHP, required awk­ward work­arounds and lines upon lines of code.

Now, for new work! I plan on posting a lot of this when time per­mits, but I’ve been pretty busy for some time now, and client work of course comes first. The pro­vin­cial elec­tion came & went, and I worked for Rick Wels­ford and Kirk Cox, both pro­jects which presented chal­lenges to the pro­grammer in me. I fin­ished a revamp of the Hal­ifax Cran­berry Com­pany‘s web­site, recre­ating the ori­ginal Flash design in HTML, and cre­ating a German ver­sion to run side-by-side with the Eng­lish. I’ve done some busi­ness cards and bro­chures for Kisserup, and a resume web­site for Kim Stacey, soon to be trans­formed to a full Flash site. My most recent pro­ject was a new web­site for the startup Word­smith Com­mu­nic­a­tions. Cur­rently, I’ve got a few more pro­jects on the go and hope to have loads of updates in the near future once things hit a bit of a lull, though I’m hoping that doesn’t happen any time soon.

I’m only just now get­ting the hang of writing 2005 instead of 2004.

I’m working a security job, which means I spend twelve hours a night playing with my pen­cils in an empty building in Eastern Pas­sage. If I only had a laptop, I would be the world’s most pro­ductive moonlighter.

I’m cur­rently nego­ti­ating what could end up being a fairly large freel­ance pro­ject — and it’s coming with the promise of dis­tri­bu­tion in impressive-looking num­bers like “50,000″. I get excited enough seeing 100 repro­duc­tions of some­thing I’ve done. If I have to pick up 50,000 at the print shop, I may end up trying to wall­paper my apart­ment with them! (more…)