Another Infrequent Blog Post
I got an e-mail from a recruiter looking for a Software Engineer. The recruiter was looking for someone with open source software experience, multiple language experience etc etc and someone who has an active blog. I’m not really interested in the position the recruiter was seeking to fill but the bit about someone who has an active blog did precipitate a twinge of guilt about being so delinquent when it comes to posting to my blog. To all you hordes of internet users who have been waiting for a blog post from me… I’m sorry, I’ll do better in the future… maybe. Part of the reason I haven’t posted is that there is so much going on is that in true ADD fashion, I can’t really settle on anything to write about. I start thinking about writing something and then something else comes along, I get distracted, and pretty soon I forget that I was going to write something in the first place. By the way, the article I linked to about ADD is really interesting, at least the first paragraph or two and the bit in the middle is, I never made it all the way through…. where was I?
I’m doing a bit of web development. I’m surprised at how easy it is compared to the stuff I normally do for my day job. Web development seems formulaic. All the original thought seems to go into the work that the designer does in terms of user experience and ascetics. Translating the designer’s ideas into executable code and html is pretty trivail IMHO. I’m not very experienced in web development so I encounter things I’ve never done before all the time. When this happens I spend a few minutes digging around on the net or on #rubyonrails and I have my answer usually with accompanying source code. The biggest challenge for me is not to over optimize. I don’t think anybody really wants to pay you to spend the days squeezing a few microseconds out of some code that generates a web page. It is really satisfying writing a few lines of code and immediately seeing the results pop up on a browser. If I keep doing this I’m going to dig into the ascetic side of things. My first major in college was art and I’ve always loved creating visual stuff. I’m just clueless about contemporary computer graphics tools.
