Yes, I am Indeed Alive and Well
March 17, 2008
Being a one-man show has its drawbacks. I simply don’t have a lot of time to get to things that aren’t billable – like writing anything here that might be considered “news”. Or eating and sleeping. I do, however, have a bit of info on some upcoming things for Masuga Design.
First, April 1, 2008 will be my second anniversary of “the solo gig” and what better way to celebrate that then moving to a new office. This new place is bigger, less expensive, and closer to my home. How can I lose?
Second, I was at SXSW this year and had the pleasure of meeting the EllisLab team – the folks responsible for the crazy-powerful ExpressionEngine CMS that I know so well – among other very cool people. I’m thinking I should probably get out more.
Third, I almost have the development site for Masuga Design off the ground and ready to take over this old hunk’o WordPress. What else would the dev site be on? ExpressionEngine, of course. I need to eat my own dogfood, as it were.
The new site will be much easier for me to update and will bring with it portfolio updates as well as forums for the AJAX Star Rating script for which so many of you have visited this site. Instead of a bloated demo page with over 300 comments (and instead of everyone filling my inbox with questions and comments) I decided to install EE’s own forum module so that people using the script can get help from other people using the script. Everyone wins that way.
The goal is to be in the new office and have the EE-powered masugadesign.com up in April. Which, if I’m anything like Apple when they announce releases, means the very end of that month, not the beginning.
One last thing: I’d like to say thanks to everyone who has kept me so incredibly busy since the last time I wrote anything here back in September 2007. Those months were incredibly busy but I learned a lot (jQuery, anyone?, added a lot of web development skills to my ninja-belt, and threw some new things into my bag of tricks. All of that hard work even allowed me to take a much needed two-week vacation to Hawaii in February of this year. Thanks again – and now, back to work for me.
