The I.T. Life

Finally started working on my new portfolio, its WordPress based, and has a good bit of content in it migrated from the old site. It has a LONG way to go, but I think it will work out in the long run. The sad thing is I just spent my whole Saturday getting a head start on this new site, when I spend 5 days a week coding WordPress anyways.

Whos with me here? Ever since my time at NSCC, they have pushed the “portfilio” concept. I have seen its use, and lack there of. Yes, a portfolio is a great idea, espically in IT, and web, where we can put all our stuff in one location to show to a potential employer or a contract. Company portfolios are extreemly powerfull, to be able to give a presentation to a client and quickly show what you have down. On the other side, as a IT worker, to beable to show what you have in a very slick way can be just as powerfull. Now, I have never been asked for a portfolio in a interview, however I have been asked for work examples. My idea is for a very quick way to do this. I want basically a purpose driven CMS. I want to develop a product that has a uber slick install like wordpress, has a great backend, has a very customizable front end. I want it to be Ajax driven, PHP/MySQL, I want to use a solid open soruce framework, and I want it to be popular. But will it be? If you had this, would you care? Would the kicker for you be that you have a very powerfull back end, and a front that is so customizable you can create a flash template instantly? or a flex site for that matter? I’d like to hear from some guys in the community right now, users, and developers. What do you want, what do you need? What can make this something that you want to use? So, whos with me?

So,this morning I made some big changes to this site. I added a tag cloud, social networking links at the bottom of each post, google ads, and some more suttle things. There is a much larger ajax prescense now, and your posts are automatically checked for spam than approved. Also, I am tracking statictics. Just how many people view the site, and what pages they went to. Nothing personal. I am using a plugin for wordpress that records statistics from the blog.

Also, here is my current flickr stats

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Im heading to my second job in a few minutes. I just finished some more changes on the blog, specfically the background, now its cool. I was amazed how better it looks with that little change. I need to make a few more updates really. I want to add a flikr pool on teh sidebar, as well as one of these maps that shows where my readers are. With wordpress all thats really simple. Im also thinking of adding a amazon wishlist, but, we will see about that. Im gonna eventually give the option for you guys to choose what theme you want to look at, but, not today. Im planning on going downtown saturday, jon is planning on coming, and hes bringing friendes. So, right now we dont have a plan, however, why dont we say 9:30 at the ale house this saturday. I think it would be pretty damn cool if a few random people show up because tehy read this post. If ya dont know where the ale house is, its teh one right infront of the citidal, and the town clock. Anyways, I should get going now, I hope ya like the changes on the site, if ya got any more ideas, let me know. I am also planning on adding a photo gallery, not part of word press, but, on the site. It will be done using litebox that way its super cool, im gonna be trying alot of new featurs like that as time progresses. So, i hope that keeps ya comming back!