I’d like to get some discussion going here. Is the web design/development industry booming, a bit stagnant, or hurting? Are you fellow web professionals doing well for yourself, managing to get by, or perhaps hurting a bit, especially with these tough economic times?
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Michael is a seasoned developer who loves helping build stuff for the internet. He brings over a decade of varied experiences working with both front and back end developer stacks.
His primary focus has been WordPress and PHP and all the components that go along with them. During the day, he is a Backend Engineer with WebDevStudios, helping clients get the best that they can out of their own websites.
I make stuff for the internet…revisited.
This is a follow up post to the one I made last spring, located here I am not going to go into much recap for where I was at seven months ago. If you want to see details, please go read the post. In short, I was let go by the company I worked for Read More…
Getting Social with Postscript5
Warning, long post The introduction If you have ever seen my twitter interaction with then you know that we are pretty endearing to each other as friends and colleagues in the world of freelance. Over the past few years that we’ve known of each other, we have grown to trust each other and rely on Read More…
A request for WordPress plugin ideas
As a front-end web developer, I am regularly working with clients and fellow freelancers, to create a wonderful looking, well working website that fits the client’s needs. With that, I am working in the browser and utilizing tools and technologies to achieve these goals. When needs are greater than my knowledge allows or budget/time restraints Read More…
The customary “Blogs I follow” post
Here is a list of the Developer/Designer blogs in my RSS list in no particular order. Feel free to suggest more if you want! instantShift http://www.instantshift.com Adactio: Journal http://adactio.com/journal/ For A Beautiful Web http://forabeautifulweb.com/ The Mozilla Blog http://blog.mozilla.com Gadgetopia http://gadgetopia.com/ HTML5 Doctor http://html5doctor.com Yoast & The WordPress Podcast http://yoast.com/ iDesign Studios http://www.idesignstudios.com camen design http://camendesign.com/ Read More…
Constructing an ideal job
This was originally drafted in spring/summer 2010. I just never got around to posting it. The job mentioned is two employers ago. Constructing an ideal cubicle life with things taken for granted It is a guarantee that the majority of society will work at least one job, in their lifetime, that is far from ideal. Read More…