CUBEsMIND

Learning Time

2014-11-04

Currently taking a SharePoint2013 Designer class. This is the second class that my company has me taking. The first one wasn't too bad, hopefully this one will be as good. So what's going on? Well the company I've been working at split so I've been busy learning new system and migrating systems. On the plus side I've been working on rebuilding one of the web applications, because a lot of the code was depricated. The plus side to this is that I decided to rebuild it in CodeIgnitor, so I'm happily getting to finally learn that. I would like to rebuild this site in it, but whether I decide to continue with CodeIgnitor or not after this project is done remains to be seen. Regardless I feel like learning this has already gave me a great understanding of Model View Control(MVC), which I had more of a hazy understanding of before. I feel much more clear on it now, and the more I play around with it the more I seem to be refining what is what. I mention sticking with CodeIgnitor and the only reason I say that is because my buddy Rob in CT told me about another framework called Gumby which I'm interested in taking a look at. Really comes down to time. Ah yes time! Always against me. There are several things I wanted to start on this year and life has interrupted me!! Trying to re-organize and focus. Want to play with CodeIgnitor, Gumby, SASS, Unity, and investing. I think I'm going to have to eliminate TV or VideoGames to accomplish this...maybe even both if I'm able. Oh it's going to suck! LOL

Happy Friday Indeed

2014-07-18

Well it has been a long a$$ while since...holy crow like 2 years since I just put a comment on here, let alone done any kind of work to it! That makes me depressed. Well I have learned a lot since then. Heck I've learned enough to the point where when I inadvertently tell someone I have a website, I don't want them to go to it because I don't feel like it is anywhere close to representing my site building abilities. On the plus side, I've met a lot of cool intelligent people at jobs, who I hope I can maintain as friends. Some are programmers, artists, entrepreneurs, etc. Just a lot of cool, intelligent, creative people! Who I hope that I can maintain communications and friendships with, which is going to be hard because a lot of them are scattered across the country and I'm terrible at keeping up with people if I don't have some kind of regular interaction.(If you are one of the cool people I have had the privilege of interacting with feel free to contact me whenever, doesn't matter if you haven't heard from me, if you just want random conversation or some chit-chat send me a message!) Anyways, I've been working with getting Bitbucket setup and reading/testing out GIT. I think it will be a smooth transition from SVN to GIT. Started to take some notes on CodeIgnitor, I'm still pretty curious about learning that one. Maybe it's just the name, I don't know but sounds cool to me for some reason. I believe I have a much better understanding of MVC, had to read a bunch of stuff and talk to like three people about it, because it just wasn't clicking for me. Now I've compiled that information into a simple model/drawing that I can understand, pretty sure it's right. At the very least it makes sense to me.lol One of those cool friends I met was talking to me about a couple of other technologies that his company uses, so I think I will start looking at those after I get more familiar with CodeIgnitor. So probably not this year but at some point I will start looking into AngularJS, Laravel, and ExpressionEngine. Sadly, this year has been slow. My current company is breaking up, half being sold and I will be owned by the new owners...that sounds weird when you think about it...it's kind of like I'm no different then a printer being changed hands.lol Anyways, hopefully that will work out for the best. For the past quarter of this year all my free time has been going to watching my brother's dog and trying to maintain his house as he was out of town training for a new job. He's back now, and I wish him the best on his new venture but at the same time the past 3 months have drained me(mentally and physically). On the plus side that's done now and I'm almost finished moving into a new apartment. I'm looking forward to having a place by myself for at least some of my life, hopefully not all of it though.lol It should be good though, not having to be concerned about roommates or just "other people interruptions". I know that sounds very anti-social, but I've always felt I needed to give it a shot and this may be the only chance in life I get to. If it works, then I can enjoy it and plan for some kind of "pool house business office" kind of thing when I eventually buy a house. If it doesn't, then at least I won't go through the rest of my life wondering about. See when you think about it that way it's much more positive! In general, no matter how negative the things I say may come across, I am actually a positive person. Well my 15 minute break is up so back to work! Hoping to start uploading some site changes before the end of next month.