I recently had the opportunity to work on a small freelance project. My client wanted to put together a system that would allow people to digitally hand sign legal documents. It turned out to be a fun, little project. Due to confidentiality, I am unable to name my client or to show off any of the code base. However, I can describe the project in general terms.
How much power can a windmill generate if a windmill could generate power? I endeavor to find out how..
People sometimes talk about the odd ways they come up with ideas. Such as hitting their head on the bathroom sink to think of the flux capacitor. Recently, for me it was a dream. The details escape me, but it had to do with coming up with a way to calculate how much could be earned from energy produced by a windmill. I woke up thinking that may be a neat thing to put together in my play pen. So I did it.
For more than a month now I have been working in my new playpen with the Laravel PHP framework. I figured this would be a good time to take a moment to discuss my initial impressions of it, particularly in comparison to Codeigniter, the other framework I have experience with.
Just as I was complaining that I lacked ideas for a project to work on to prove my development skills an idea hit me. One drawback that I see in starting the development of any project is getting things setup. Especially since I haven't done a lot of in-depth programming lately. This post describes what I chose to work with (Laravel, Eclipse, GitHub, and an Ubuntu server in a VM) and hurdles faces in just getting setup to do the actual dev work.
If you visited this site during a three day period in the middle of July you would have found it to consist of a single page supporting the liberation of Iraq. I am not a terribly political guy, especially not with foreign politics, so the single page message was not me. Hackers (or script kiddies perhaps) had managed to gain access to my CMS and defaced my blog. Why this site, one that gets two visitors on a good day, I am still unsure. When I noticed I quickly put things back right and figured the events would equate to a source of blog posting material for me.
A friend recently asked me my opinions on where he should focus on in terms of getting into the tech industry. He’s wanting to self-teach while he prepares to go to school to earn his paper degree. I wrote up my thoughts on what the current market demands are and what he can focus on. I figured, it served as a good summary to post here.
