A change in direction
This site used to be largely to present myself as a web and database programmer. Although I still work with some long-standing clients, I no longer depend on consulting to pay the mortgage. I now have a regular job, first as a staff web programmer and now as a DBA (notice I didn’t say 9-5 job). This site will transform into a sort of half-baked blog. It won’t be a true blog with tagging and all that, if that was my intention I would just install WordPress. Rather I’ll blather on about things that capture my attention, show off new tricks I’ve either created myself or stolen from someone else.
A change in technology
For most of my professional IT life I have been a web developer writing Classic ASP and ASP.Net web applications. I am now working full time as a DBA, doing all the things you think of when you think DBA, plus a lot of ETL and SSIS stuff for a large data warehouse project.
This site too is not in the middle of being re-written from ASP.Net to PHP. I am pretty agnostic when it comes to server side web technology. I love (really, I do) ASP.Net and PHP equally. From what little I’ve seen of Ruby on Rails, it looks really cool. About the only thing I have no use for is Cold Fusion, but that’s probably due the personalities with Cold Fusion developers I’ve had to work with in the past.
What are your thoughts?
