Hello World!
My first post! I've been working on putting this site together for a couple of weeks with only a few bumps along the way. The biggest was just having the time to work on it as I can no longer code into the wee hours of the night. I get why my father used to go to bed every night at 10 o'clock - being a dad can be exhausting! But with a few hours here and there, mostly while my daughter was napping, I was able to get things working.
Now that I have the site up, I am going to start adding projects to my portfolio. I've looked back at some of the early ones I did as a consultant and I can see a real difference with those that came after I was brought in house. As a consultant, I had to get things done quick and dirty with constantly shifting specs. Once I was hired full time, I could get a feel for the environment and make a argument for getting our infrastructure in order.
It is pretty cool to see how things build on each other, starting with writing a tool to convert from QuickMail to Address Book so many years ago all the way to maintaining an up to date Office List and showing office locations, plus everything in between. That was a ton of work! But getting things in order allowed me to take on even greater challenges and it is rewarding to hear our users like what we have done.
When I add a project to the site, I am going to mark the date for the post the same as the day I released the 1.0 version. This seems like a pretty reasonable way to show my projects on some sort of timeline. However, I will be using screenshots and describing the features of the most recent versions. In the future, I will probably make a post for each new version, but we will see.
