Revival
November 5th, 2009It had been quite a while since I last posted something here; most times I even bother to log in it’s for deleting spam comments filtered out by Akismet. Spammers seem to be the only visitors not te be deterred in any way, shape or form by the complete and utter lack of activity in here.
Since the last post I have been pretty much tied up by work to do anything more than eat, sleep and, well, work. Not much going on besides that, and not much of interest to write about.
My previous assignment however ended at the end of august and I’ve been on the availability list ever since. Requests from clients do happen and some of them fit my profile well but none of them heve been honoured sofar, so I spend my days studying, checking the request database, keeping an eye on my mailbox, and brushing up on some of the things I haven’t been paying much attention to for quite a while (whenever did HTML5 become part of the W3C?! Sheesh…).
So: about time the dust off this space and write a bit about what’s going on nowadays.
Coincidentally, I was talking to a friend of mine over the phone last evening during which he asked me if I could do some minor revisions to the site of the shop he works at. I’ve done some work to it years ago, sprucing up the look a bit and rearranging some of the content and maintenance pages. Since this was sort of a hand-rolled CMS in PHP and MySQL it was an interesting excercise doing work on an actual working site instead messing about with tryouts.
Because it has been quite a while since I last worked on the site it’ll take me some time to get acquainted with its internal structure and database layout again, but it should be good fun.
Sort of makes me wonder all over again if I should consider another line of work…