The Mind of Matty G

So I recently got a new job at the “Innovation Centre” at my school (a fancy name for the department that trains teachers on technology used in teaching, creates training materials, etc. Come to think of it, I guess it’s a good name. It’s short.)

My first job was to rebuild a site that touches on ESL teaching techniques. Based on the need, I decided to develop it using Wordpress. The page system is very nice, and the whole page parent/child relationship is nice, and I found a little bit of code that allows for the parent’s page title and menu of child pages to display on both the parent and child pages.

I also got an email from my old employer that they want a new website. Completely custom and coded in PHP with a MySQL database, with custom back-end for editing, and custom client pages with a login/password access. I’m giving them a deal on it, because I want it for my portfolio. The work I did for my PHP/MySQL class was a lot of copying from the teacher’s code. I want to do this thing from scratch.

I’m actually having fun at work. Who’da thunk it.

I found out (thanks to the handy dashboard news feed) that there is a WordCamp happening in the T-dot. It’s only about a 30 minute drive for me, so I figured why not. I like developing on Wordpress (even though I still have a lot to learn) I like to blog (even though that may be on and off) and I wouldn’t mind having the community aspect of it (since I haven’t really had it since not too long after Gnomedex 2 (whichever year that was, I can’t remember). I can’t wait. October??? Well, happy birthday to me.