Firehed’s Blog

Yes, it’s been forever.  It’s inexcusable.  Well, not entirely - I figure it’s best not to waste everyone’s mental bandwidth with filler material, and I really haven’t had a whole lot to say, nor time to say it.  Work is just the day thing, and I avoid letting it spill into my time beyond that.  The freelance gigs, on the other hand, tend to suck up a lot of spare time.  I’m killing myself with scope creep (which is my own fault, not the client’s); more importantly, I’m very quickly coming up to speed on object-oriented programming in PHP (something I should have done a long time ago) and that makes my existing code very unhappy.

So, that’s that.  I’ll post up little tips, tricks, and code snippets from time to time, so that you can benefit from my code-fu.  Or whatever it may be - I do more than write code.  Photography mostly, but also reading up on more freelance ideas. The 4-hour Workweek has had my attention as of late (though in audiobook form if you’re like me), and at least has some good concepts if nothing else.

Basically, from here on out, expect much more sporadic updates, and hopefully ones that are more meaningful.  I’ve got another thing I’m working on where a lot of the code I’ll open-source (if not the entire thing), so find some snippets.  I’ve been hesitantly taking the “XML is like violence - if it’s not working, then you’re not using enough” approach; thankfully, it’s actually working quite well so far.  Then photography tips, ideas, and shots.  All that good stuff.  I’ll figure it out when I get there.