So as some of you may know, I’ve been looking for a new job. If anyone knows of any job openings just let me know.
So far I’ve applied to a few but due to the holiday season only a couple have gotten back to me in a timely manner. I hope to get some word back come the new year, otherwise I’ll be posting from a much more homeless place.
NetRiver is officially using Joomla as a CMS solution. Because of this I’m working on a way to automate installation and templating from our development team. Currently it takes me about 3 hours of modification to successfully template a Joomla install.
I’m working on a way to automate most of the process and basically get those 3 hours of my time back to put towards other things.
So far I’ve made a base SVN trunk for our Joomla installs. The trunk has a default basic template and a set of our “supported” modules. We currently have a similar setup for our Chambergate product and I’m going to be maintaining our joomla base install. Hopefully the way I’m doing it will make it easier to roll out mass updates for people and also allow us to document a set of static features.
You can check out my default install here
I was recently contracted to do work for a fellow goon over at the something awful forums, so far it’s going pretty great.
The project is called “I Heart Chinese“, it’s a really neat idea. Teaching Chinese with online flash animations, it’s online learning but in a fun and easy way. So far I’ve been working on the base system, the base system is built around my own database abstraction layer working with ADODB. It’s also using the smarty template engine, no particular reason other than it helps keep the code managable.
I’ll be updating as I write more, but so far it’s hard to show any recognizable progress.
Recently I’ve started a new marketing idea for NetRiver, we moved into our new facility and I’m tired of it being mostly empty so I’ve taken it upon myself to help fill it up. I have connections all over so it shouldn’t be too hard to bring clients the only hassle is going to be the countless hours it is taking me to fill the content and design the website.
If you want to track my progress (anybody actually read this?) check out http://netriver.nr-dev.com.
