I am roughly half done my vacation already for this nice little winter break. Went in with no solid plans and so far it’s really shown. I haven’t done much and now the guilt starts to set in around not doing anything with my time. Spent most of the first couple of days napping, catching […]
The year continues to be cruel to Erin and I. We already lost one of our dogs back in August when we lost Sam and tonight we lost our other dog Bella. We’re both big softies so this is extremely hard for us. It’s never an easy decision to have to let your pet go. […]
Every year I take a couple of weeks off over Christmas time. it allows me to recharge and I often try to use it to learn something, develop something, or sometimes, waste it away literally doing nothing. As of this evening that time off has officially begun! While I’m excited to get some rest, I […]
There hasn’t been much on the go this week. I’ve been focused on getting a few things sorted out for work before my vacation arrives. I have a few tasks coming up including a couple of surprise ones I need to squeeze in before I leave for my vacation time. Most of my learning has […]
I have been searching for a project to hop into for what feels like a few years now. Never sure of what to do, what kind of software to write, despite knowing I want to do something and knowing I have plenty of time. Well, there might be something coming up I can dive into! […]
After having a few weeks of really digging into some new stuff, I kind of tapered off as of late. Work got busy so focused on that for a few evenings and just need to get myself back into things. I have some Symfony to keep going with and I was checking out a web […]
For someone that just likes food, losing weight sucks. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve tried to lose weight but I’m gearing up for yet another attempt. I HATE having my picture taken. I have very few pictures of myself as I just hate seeing myself in them. I see them and think […]
For those that don’t know, Erin is my wife. She is not a programmer at all but I’d love for her to be if she wanted to. To see if she has any interest she register for a course called Introduction to C# Programming from the University of Waterloo and their professional development courses. While […]
My next course I took was how to create a WordPress template which is something I always just bought from a template site. The themes now have all kinds of extra crap and plugins i didn’t want so figured this course on creating a theme from scratch would be a good start. Being my first […]
As I dive into some learning I had to pick a few things I wanted to look at. Something I’ve neglected over the years is keeping up with some of the latest changes to the programming I use on a daily basis since my current placement doesn’t require any of the new stuff. Time for […]