Web development.. the wrong way
For most of my career as a web developer, I have been re-writing web systems that already exist for various companies.
Most of those web systems have some sort of in-company processes assigned to them, such as order processing, despatching, etc…
I like to view re-developing existing systems as a point of change for the better, where existing processes within a company can be analysed and optimised. That way the company can save some money, and everyone can be a little bit happier in there job.
However I always find that other staff within companies are reluctant to change, they know how they currently work and they want to stick to that, even when the current processes within the company are slow, laborious and in places just plain wrong.
I don’t understand why other people find it so hard to step back, look at what they’re doing, and see where they can save time and stress with just a few changes!
This is the most frustrating part of my life, I find it very hard to motivate myself to model web applications around company processes that I can see are wrong.
In order to save myself from a heart-attack mid way through my 30′s I’m not sure if I need to find a way to stop caring about improving the companies I work at, or whether I should try to migrate my job away from writing apps into some kind of business processes analyst?
For now I’ll stick to drinking JD every night until I stop caring 
Creating a wordpress theme from scratch
I’ve been meaning to get around to making a wordpress theme from scratch for ages.. but I never seem to have the time and always just find one thats near enough so just bastardise that for my own blog
But one thing I did notice is that the documentation around wordpress isn’t brilliant and there is a serious lack of guides for creating your own themes
Today I stumbled upon this guide which I’ve had a read through and it’s brilliant
Goes right through from designing a layout, slicing it up and eventually coding the individual pages
If you are half decent at html/css you should be able to make a theme from scratch using this guide, big thumbs up from me to the original author!
I've moved to the light side!!!
Finally after what seems like an eternity of being jealous of Rick’s mac, I went out last week and bought myself a nice mac mini.
2.0ghz dual core with 2gb of ram
I’ve taken both my 320gb drives out my PC, reformatted them and put them in USB caddies on my mac
Only had it for a week, but god its nice..
Last night I was sat converting a few of my movie rips to MP4′s ready for itunes, chatting to a few mates on msn, watching a tv show in quicktime, doing a bit of work in photoshop and browsing around in coda, and it never skipped a beat
Compared to vista x64 ultimate which blue screened on average 6 times a day, I’m in heaven
I’ll stand by Rick’s comments here… if you use your computer professionally for either coding or graphic design, you NEED a mac!
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