What’s Been Doing?

Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted pretty much anything on my pages of wisdom here. Which pretty much indicates that I’ve been busy. Very busy, and loving it. I’ve been buried in books and code. My previous employer got me back off the job market and has been prepared to take me on for a full time position as a web developer. If you’ve been following the story on twitter then you will know that I got picked up for a CakePHP developer role through my blog here. That unfortunately fell through because of the demand for work delivered by the company. Which was kind of depressing.

But nevertheless they got back to me, and I’m doing just as I was before and more. I’m in a really excellent position. My co-worker is miles ahead of me in terms of experience with web programming and he understands my position and in turn delegates jobs that are just a little outside of my comfort zone, non-stop. So I’m constantly learning and developing more advanced apps. So yes, I’m always digging through documentation and buying books. I pretty much get up early in the morning, arrive up to an hour early at work, study some bit with coffee. Work all day, drive home, and study my books!

Otherwise we’ve been taking it easy. My partner, who is on a working holiday visa here in Australia is finding it very tough to get any sort of job. We started out trying to get her on track with a her desired career path but none of the companies wanted to hear about it, simply because she was not an Australian resident. With that, we have been striving for just about any work, retail, receptionist, office work and even cleaning. She’s got a degree, a ton of experience, well mannered and presented and just has the best attitude to make things happen, and yet still no luck. If you want to help her out, or know of anyone that could give her a chance that she deserves, so she can stop handing out hundreds of resumés check her out at www.lizzyinbrizzy.com.

What I’m currently looking into now is source code versioning with Git and setting up git repos and access control via Gitosis. Also learning all the PHP functions i can and understanding how to extend CakePHP methods to be more DRY and MVC endorsed. Also this Lithium by Nate Abele, I do want to check this out sometime soon, however had a quick look at the documentation, and didn’t really see much there yet. But alas, the weekend is coming up haha

And with that expect a lot more code snippets and reviews of books coming in the near future! As always if you have any questions or comments please let me know, I’m always up for helping.