New year, same old….
Sometimes work is good. Sometimes it’s interesting and exciting and all the other good words that you can think of. Sometimes though it’s not so good, and today definitely falls under that category.
The frustrating thing is that I cant really talk about whats going on (not publicly at least) but suffice to say it’s looking like i’m gonna have to make some tough decisions pretty quickly and, unless something changes in the next couple of weeks, whichever decision I make there’s going to be some pretty negative outcomes for me. There’s also a whole load of politics involved too which makes it even more messy and difficult to deal with.
Anyway mini-rant over for now……on to some other stuff thats been going through my head recently…..
I’ve been giving some serious thought to contracting, web development and freelance stuff over the past few weeks (unrelated to mini-rant above but may ened up being pertinent…who knows) so i’ve decided to do a couple of things just to re-learn some skills that i’ve lost in the mix -
- Most of my work recently has been exclusively Perl based so i’m more than a bit rusty PHP wise. As such i’ve been tinkering with some bits of code to get my head back into it. Specifically i’ve been going through some of the OO features added with PHP 5 which i’m finding quite familiar
- Following on from this i’ve got 2 little projects in mind to build using PHP (dependent on free time obviously) :
- First i’ve got a little project to write a tool for my EQ2 guild to replace the current dkp manager and augment it with some flashy new bits. This would be the first time i’d written a full project from start to finish in PHP for around 4 or 5 years so it should hopefully be a good way of getting me back up to speed and end up being a useful tool with the features we need.
- Secondly, this site. I’ve used it as a testing ground for lots of little bits here and there and have only periodically played around with the front end of things thats available to the general public (thats you!
) so it’s probably time I spent some time to give this site some TLC too. This is particularly important if I do end up going down the freelance type route as the last thing any prospective client needs to see is broken/buggy stuff going on regardless of whether i’m just toying with stuff or not.
So thats all for now…..if and when i find the time to start some of this stuff you may see some updates and stuff posted on here…so expect the next update in 6 months time saying i’ve been too busy lol! 
Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
