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No, I haven’t forgotten

My life has been pretty nuts lately.  I’ve been employed for almost 2 months with the new job and I still wake up in the morning excited to go to work.  I feel like they really appreciate me, and I keep getting to do new things.  Right now, I’m spending alot of our time reverse engineering the previous programmer’s work.  He wasn’t very good at keeping things organized.  There are no comments, and its like untangling a big mess of cords to figure out where things are.  Thus far I’ve been using the Zend Framework in favor of Cups or Code Igniter.  I made this decision based on a few things.  While I hate to say it, ZF is made by the creators of PHP.   Because of this, I expect the best support out of it as well as community.  Some parts of Code Igniter feel cryptic and the community around seems small.  Working with ZF and hanging out in the irc channel for it reminds me much of when I started learning PHP.  As far as where I’m at with our re-write at work, we’ve been doing a lot of planning on the show management side which will lead us into the call center manager’s portion of work nicely.  In a way it feels exactly where we should start so I think we get bonus points for that.

I’ve also written a search engine of sorts to search or data tables easily.  The existing setup is fairly clunky (which I’m sure is hard to  believe based on previous statements) so I rewrote it the way I think it should be done.  It’s not 100% but it’s definitely an improvement over our exisiting one.  I plan on posting the basics of the code here once I get a bit further along with it to share.

Beyond that, I purchased Bioshock today for Xbox 360.  It’s purely insane.  The graphics are unmatched and it’s the first game to scare me and make me jump in years.  Plus its a fun single player FPS.  It’s been a while since I’ve found that.    Anyways it’s near one oclock and I have another long day at work tomorrow so I’m crashing.