Twelve Black Code Monkeys

Well, it’s been yet another year or so since the last time I posted here.  One of the odd things that Twitter does to you is to take away motivation to post much of anything in a longer format.  Since you can get everything out in short bursts, as the thought hits you, why instead take the hour or more to carefully craft your thoughts into a coherent essay?

Ok, so there’s the benefit of actually processing the swimming bits of thoughts roaming in your head and realizing that some of them aren’t relevant, and then putting them together to find that the conclusion wasn’t actually what you had in mind in the first place.  Oh, yeah, and then there’s the ability to wax poetic when given the space, etc., etc.

Given my overall sense of lack of time (probably in part due to the compulsion to keep up to date in the my Twitter and Facebook feeds), the idea of sitting down to write something in long form was a bit daunting, and yet here I am.  (hint – it’s probably due to my procrastinating on doing something else I need to do!)

So, let’s see, some quick highlights:

• After two years on the webOS (Palm, now HP) bandwagon, it looks like I’m finally moving on, at least in terms of phones and for the time being.  More on this in hopefully a soonish future post.
• Professionally, I’ve been doing a variety of things in the last couple of years.  Almost a year ago I switched companies and started doing web development (e-Learning) on a government contract.  Along the way I finally started using jQuery, which is a great tool that I’m hoping to keep working with.  The contract ended recently but I continue to work for the company (which by the way has a great SaaS offering for e-Learning providers) doing both web and application development and am just finishing up my first .Net (C#) application that I developed from scratch.  I still have a lot to learn in this area, but it’s great to know that I can build something from scratch that functions at a somewhat complex level.
• I’ve also been busy helping a friend of mine with his start-up mobile web app, but so far just with work on their website.

There’s probably a lot more I could write about, but I’m going to stop there for fear that I give myself the impression that I have to write the massive entries that I used to so many times in the past!  Perhaps a medium-sized entry like this one, without a dozen links and images (not to mention pages and pages of long-winded text!), will go a long way in getting this blog back up to something approaching regularity!

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