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June 25, 2004
Busy Busy Busy
Yes, posts have been a bit infrequent the past few weeks. I do have an excuse - I am redesigning a web site for a small wine delivery company. After I had won the guy's confidence and he asked me to submit a quote for the job, I had to frantically go away and research the best package to use and become an expert in it over the course of a weekend. And write up contracts, proposed deadlines, design a logo for my as-of-yet-nonexistent company....
Anyway I found the package. And I don't know if I could be classed as an expert yet, but I am hacking the bejeezus out of it to add the functionality that he needs. And even though it's looking like a can of worms and that the minimal amount I told him it would cost (and he signed off on) and the time frame I gave him are looking scarily unrealistic, I am powering away at it, pulling late night after late night to have the best shot I can at pulling it off.
It just might happen yet.
But in the mean time this blog might get a bit neglected. Don't worry, it won't be for more than a few weeks. And when I come back to it I will have plenty to say.
I promise.
Posted by mattymcg at June 25, 2004 03:40 PMJust as long as I got pizza, warm slippers and a beer waiting for me when I get home. Savvy?
Posted by: Kinki at June 25, 2004 03:46 PMGet stuck in, and get a reputation for yourself. Make the reputation compensate for underestimating your first bid, and use it for experience.
Posted by: Andrew at June 25, 2004 07:03 PMi'd love to hear what solution you're using for the website when you come back. is it a content management system, ecommerce? i'm always looking for new things to become a master at. currently, i've descended upon Gallery and am in the middle of the holiest of holy hacks on it. i think that i've changed almost every single PHP file there is in the app!
Posted by: gleek at June 26, 2004 01:20 AMHi gleek. The package I am using is called osCommerce, and is amazing as it is basically amazon in a box, for free, and is a breeze to set up. The problem is my client wants some specific features that I need to add on to it, so I am hacking the bejeezus out of it. Oh for a decent PHP development environment so I could really work out what was going on, rather than flying by the seat of my pants...
Posted by: mattymcg at June 28, 2004 10:35 PMHmm, I just realized that I already used the phrase "hacking the bejeezus" in that post, I can't believe I used it again. Must come up with new phrase to mean "wittling away aimlessly at the keyboard as a substitute for knowing what I am doing..."
Posted by: mattymcg at June 29, 2004 02:31 PM