So I’m near­ing the end of my first major project. Well alright I’ve had many projects in my life, but this was my first pro­fes­sional project. I was … many things in my project: Lead Devel­oper, Lead Archi­tect, Psudo-​Business Ana­lyst, Nego­tia­tor, Trainer, Medi­a­tor, Whip-​cracker. The list goes on.

As the project is finally wind­ing down, I feel it pru­dent that I write down some of the nuggets of infor­ma­tion that I have gleaned from the experience.

Follow along and learn with me as I half-​rant life tips.

If you actu­ally vis­ited the site to read this, you may have noticed that the site went through a bit of a ren­o­va­tion. I was get­ting sick of the old theme, as it seemed a bit over the top. I wanted to go with some­thing a little more in the ‘minimalist’ sec­tion. Took me way too long to cus­tomize it to all the things that I did to the former theme, andI’ve still got a couple things to do, but I’m liking it so far.

So as some of you may have noticed, I didn’t post at all last week. Quite simply, this is because I spent pretty much every waking hour at work. Hell I gave up sleep­ing hours to be there to. Wednes­day I was at work for 18 hours, got 4 hours of sleep, then went to work the next day for a fun-​filled 31-hour shift. A word to the wise, if you are ever installing ISA server into your topol­ogy, for the love of all that is sacred and pure make sure you put it onto a sep­a­rate server then the one hold­ing your web­site. Trust me on this. Unless you want to be awake at 3 am, 6 hours before your project is being pre­sented to 100 impor­tant people.

Another help­ful tidbit: if you are tired enough, you can actu­ally sleep on a cement floor! I proved this by pass­ing out in our con­fer­ence room for nearly two hours. I say passed out because it wasn’t sleep in any sense. I actu­ally felt worse when I was roused. Ah well, such is my work-​life.

Onto the random para­graphs that sum­ma­rize my life in the past little while!

I was once a stu­dent in col­lege. During one of my sum­mers I had a summer place­ment where I was put in charge with cre­at­ing an entire CMS-based web­site for a cer­tain not-​for-​profit com­pany. To that note, there was not CMS, so I was expected to create that too. This com­pany had many facets, most of which had their own way of doing things. I had four months to do this, and I was on my own. Did I men­tion that it also had to have a total multi-​tiered user-​management system thrown into it as well? Like I said, I was sup­posed to create a CMS-​powered website.

Suf­fice it to say, things didn’t go well.

I’m on a slight Sam & Max binge at the moment, so you will for­give my use of a quote from one of their many adventures.

I’ve been some­what busy over the past little while what with work and all. I’ve finally started my job at The Rev­o­lu­tion Night Club in Water­loo. I thought that my work­ing from 10 to 3 in the morn­ing would beat me up way more then it actu­ally has. As long as I get a nap in before going to work, I’m fine. Besides, It allows me to wake up at 12 in the after­noon, which is some sort of accom­plish­ment for me.

So if anyone at all still vainly checks this, you may or may not have noticed that seem to have fallen off the face of the planet. This is, of course, an igno­rant assump­tion because of grav­ity. It is impos­si­ble to fall off the planet, let alone its face.

I have how­ever been busy with life, being lazy with updat­ing this, and other lame excuses that I cannot fathom at the moment.

I’m not going to bother with all that because quite hon­estly I was just lazy and had no drive to update this site. No real reason, but I’m back to take another stab at it.