Archive for August, 2008
A List Apart Survey 2008
If you are a professional web developer and you haven’t yet taken the 2008 ALA Survey you may want to consider doing so. It provides some interesting insight on the career landscape for people of our expertise and trade. I for one like to see what the world marketplace is like for my chosen career path. In my opinion the ALA Survey has proven its worth in that regard. ALA publishes some nice graphics depicting major points that are shown by the data set provided by people from around the world who have chosen to take the survey.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
I upgraded WordPress from 2.2 to 2.6. It told me it needed to upgrade the database. OK, sure. So when I get things working again, I noticed that there were many corrupted characters and stuff.
I call upon the WP team to do a bit more testing in the future. Hell maybe I will help with the next upgrade scripts… Yeah, we will see if I ever find the time to donate to projects like WordPress.
Now that I’ve lost my categories, it is nice to see more effective use of AJAX in the admin user interface. It speeds up the adding of tags to my posts. I like tags better than categories anyway.
More on WordPress 2.6 after I have had time to play with it more. Oh, have I mentioned that I am posting this from the wordpress iPhone App? Outstanding!
No Time for Games
For quite some time I have been thinking about how I don’t play games anymore. I often drift back to my 10 day trial period of World of Warcraft®. I really do want to play it. I know I would enjoy it. Unfortunately for my inner gamer, I am a family man now. I have a wife and two children and they need me to be there for them. I could totally lose myself for an entire weekend playing WoW®. I’m wondering how Diablo® III might affect me.
I can’t afford to spend too much time away from my work and my family. Within the past few years the only games I have allowed myself to play are short and quick flash games. Recently my friend Kevin purchased a Chicago Gaming Company arcarde system that features many Atari titles as well as many Taito titles. I have been playing many of the classic Atari® games on it. Many of which for the first time. I find I enjoy the ability to start and stop easily and without losing anything. My favorite is Skydiver. I’ve gotten a high score of 4900! ;P Yeah, I know it is somewhat weak.
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