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2009 round up and 2010 goals
2009 has been a pretty intense year for me, I started out the year as an in-house designer and ended it working as a front end developer on a pretty awesome project, so you could say 2009 has been a pretty good year, albeit with all the ups and downs and the recession making things hard, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Last year saw me making my first move into freelance work and starting work on a number of personal projects which are due for release over the next few months. If all goes to plan (and I can actually stick to the plan), I should have these new sites live in the next few months, I want them to look perfect, so time and planning is very important.
I have spent the last year moving from office to office and on my travels and with each move, has seen me encounter new things and new programs with which to work with as well as the learning curve of legacy coding and even picking up some experience with new and exciting CMSs. I feel I have achieved better confidence with CSS and Jquery and now understand how I can use them to best enhance user experience, which I shall be using to move my site forward in the new year, Meincken.com has long sat in a state of disrepair due to other projects that have required my attention although this is something I wish to remedy in 2010, with a nice new shiny coat for my own work.
SO with the exception of meincken.com which needs to have a serious overhaul I have 2 other projects requiring my attention, one is the currently ignored but in need of work Sugar Coated Design, which has a design but awaiting time in which I can work on it, and may serve mainly as a portfolio site for my design and development work, moving much of my portfolio out of meincken.com and into SCD. I had planned to use it as a blogging tool, but I rarely have time to blog as it is so will probably keep it as portfolio site. Also I have a secret project, the name shall remain a secret until I have finalized the designs and started building the platform with which it shall sit, but I have a few little helpers with this project and wish to make it a community project in the future, I am very excited about it and it’s a subject I am hugely keen on.
I am not sure what else I can currently talk about, so may leave it here, I don’t make new years resolutions as I have a tendency to break them or forget about them. I think the only thing I need to work on is getting the balance right in explaining technical details to people. I have spent fair to long working on the tech side of things that I forget that people don’t know the same things as me!
I wish everyone a very happy new year have an awesome one.
January
3rd
2010
Written by Meincken
Tags 2009, 2010, Me, retrospective, Web Design
Posted in Site News, Web Design
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Test from android.
Just testing out Wordpress on my mobile. Little bit of playing to style the post specific hence the test.
An update… Kind of
I have been super busy the last month and with the run up to Christmas this is no bad thing. My main project is shrouded in deep secrets but it has been great fun working on it and it has given me a great reason to use the 960.gs and jQuery UI which has made prototyping sites so much easier.
I have also had a full month playing with my Netbook and my HTC Hero, both are awesome and the power of my toys is truly great.
The Hero is a true work horse and the Android Market makes the app store seem amateur. Instalation of apps is painless and removing them is even easier. Keeping in touch is great as well, I have all my social media at my finger tips and syncing with my Gmail is great, it took seconds to set up and auto synced my contacts on my phone. Now it took a bit of messing around to sort out my contacts as it stored my phone contacts, Sim and gmail, but after a little sorting it is now all synced up.
My little Netbook has also taken the abuse of a months ownership and has been great, no lag as such and with the exception of Windows 7 Starter being a bit rubbish the whole thing is great, gonna take the plunge and upgrade to home or pro! Some of the programs I run suffer from the small screen size but it’s good for just checking and great for coding quick snippets and posting the odd update, still prefer my big Asus for the proper work.
I also got a Wave account… Not worked out why I should use it, but I got one! Not convinced yet!
I have also backed the Rage Against the Machine for Xmas Number One. I would go onto a rant about points made on Twitter here but can’t really be bothered, and even if I did, it still wouldn’t sink in!
December
17th
2009
Written by Meincken
Tags Android, HTC Hero, netbooks, Site News, Web Design
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