The She Geek

So I haven’t posted here in a while. I wasn’t posting in anticipation of the move to the new server / hosting package… But unfortunately that was delayed because PayPal apparently hates me and I ended up having to close my PayPal account and open a new one. Then I bought a hosting package from the new company and decided that I wanted to get a different one, so I’m currently waiting to hear back from Holdfire about how/what I can do about upgrading to the different package. Hopefully they’ll just be able to upgrade me and I can pay the difference between the two accounts.

In the meantime, I’m working on a layout for this place that is my own. I’m just working on a comp of it right now since I’m using an illustration from iStockPhoto , and I haven’t 100% decided if I’m going to buy/download it yet. If I decide not to, then it’ll be back to the drawing board layout wise. I found a couple other illustrations over there that I love, but they’re just so expensive and I’m just so broke. But I still like to look at them all. Sometimes they do provide some inspiration, and luckily you can download comps to work with before you decide to buy.

Honestly, sometimes this is EXACTLY how I feel…

Code code code code code. That’s all I ever do Monday-Friday. Sometimes it is enough to drive me absolutely bonkers. But then I get my paycheck, and it makes me fell all warm and fuzzy on the inside. So it’s not so bad. And the funny thing is, way up on the IT ladder, one of the big bosses / my general adviser is named Rob. But he’s anything but boring.

I’ve always loved this Johnathan Coulton song.. Well, to tell the truth, I love almost all of his songs. Especially the song that pretty much nobody knows he wrote because he didn’t sing it: “Still Alive” from the end of Portal. This song and that one would have to be my two favorites.

I’ve been dabbling a bit in freelance web development lately - both front-end and back-end. It’s something that I really love to do, but I don’t have time to do it all that often. But this past semester at school, something happened to make me appreciate all of the nice clients that I’ve met out there.

For one of my classes we ended up doing a project with a local business, and part of that project was web development. I ended up having to do pretty much that entire portion of our project virtually alone. It was a lot bigger than any class project should be, and I ended up coding them an entirely customized php/mysql back-end.

I’ve done back-ends for other clients before, and they ranged anywhere from $200-$500 for JUST the back-end (no front-end content except for integration codes). And I just gave these people their back-end for FREE. And I want to cry now.

You might be able to expect a little downtime / a wordpress reinstall coming up here in the near future. I’m thinking about investing in a reseller hosting plan so that I can manage all of my domains from their own CPanel. I’m currently looking into which company I should go with since my current hosting company charges a little more than I would like to pay.

Once I get the reseller plan, I’m going to be switching things around on my domain, and re-purposing some of the names. PyroWinter is going to be a portfolio, while my new domain that I’m getting is going to be my new personal blog. Hopefully I’ll be able to get all of this done fairly quickly and I won’t have any problems. But I still need to figure out what company I’m going to be going with.

I always said that I would bring this blog back some day when I had more time to write, and now I do. So there’s really no time like the present.

It’s the same old drill though. I’m going to be sharing my geeky thoughts and ideas here, and my personal blog PyroWinter will continue to be used for my everyday ramblings.

Stay tuned, because the geekiness has just begun!