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Going Forth
Well, it’s been a while since I made an update around here. Sorry about that to anyone who still comes by, or has a brown line in their feed reader (hopefully it’s not brown anymore!). As always, I continually hope to post more around here, and I think now I may be able to change that, for, today begins a journey into self-employed-dom. I’ll be leaving my post at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in about a month or so and will be making a full-time effort of things over at RHM Interactive.
This certainly isn’t something that I’m doing on a whim. Ask any previous full-time employer that I’ve had and they’ll all tell you that during evaluations and exit interviews, the one theme that’s been a constant, has been my drive toward someday running my own web design/development business. I’ve gained a lot of experience and insight working for those people, and now it’s time to put that experience to use. I’m very excited that what was once just a dream, a plan, an idea, is now becoming a reality and I’m looking forward to being able to work on a host of interesting projects.
What kind of projects will I be doing do you say? Well, my 9-5 focus over the last three-and-a-half years has been client-side code: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I expect I’ll still be doing a bunch of that going forward, but I also plan on doing some other fun stuff like UI design and back-end coding. I hope to venture out into Objective-C/CocoaTouch land to develop some iPhone application ideas that have been rolling around in my head, and I plan to move this site over to a new platform to force myself to learn a new CMS.
That said, I’m looking to post more here about my adventures as a self-employed HTML Jockey, so keep an eye on your feed reader or Twitter as things progress. Obviously, when the time comes, I’ll be kicking up more dust over at RHM Interactive, and that Twitter account, as well.
Now, where’d I put my parachute?
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NY Giants 2009 Schedule
Here it is, this year’s iCal formatted Giants scheudle:
webcal://robmaurizi.com/extra/giants_schedule.php
As with past seasons, NBC owns the right to move games around during the second half of the season to suit their prime time viewing needs. These games typically aren’t updated on the Giants ghetto downloadable schedule, so they won’t be updated here. Check local listings to be sure you’re watching the right games at the right time.
Go Blue!
New Digs
OMG, A BLOG POST! OMG A BLOG POST! OMG A BLOG POST!
Sort of, anyway. But yes, this in fact a blog post and not an automated collection of yesterday’s links from Delicious. Just dropping a note to say that a) there’s a redesign in the house and b) there’s an actual real post in the works featuring CSS and Javascript goodness.
The redesign was prompted by an upgrade to Wordpress 2.7.1 which somehow threw my blog into a tizzy when clicking on “Blog” in the nav would bring you to this post about blogging with Textmate. More of a back-side reorganization than a full-blown redesign, but you wouldn’t know it by looking!
The forthcoming post (I promise, it’s on its way. There’s even an outline on a pad on my desk!) will be about doing up custom form elements with CSS and jQuery and was prompted by a project I had for a client recently.
Okay, poke around, see what’s different and what’s not and I’ll be back after some ice cream.
Get Out the Vote!
Nope, not that one…
The Lights Out made it to the finals in Harpoon UFO’s Best Unfiltered Band Search and if they win, they’ll get all sorts of great promo opportunities. That in a time when good indie bands are hard to come by thanks to mega labels cranking out superb wankery that seems to jive with American CrapholeIdol.
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Giants iCal Feed Updated
I’ve updated my NY Giants iCal feed for the 2008 season:
http://robmaurizi.com/extra/giants_schedule.php
You can either copy the link and subscribe to it in an iCal-capable calendar application, or just click on it to save the .ics file and load it into your calendar. The latter is required if you’re using MobileMe and want the schedule on your iPhone (like me).
Renovation Complete
Well, well, here we are. Welcome to the newly re-designed robmaurizi.com. What do you think?
As you can see, I’ve opted for the static homepage as opposed to the blog-flavored listing of recent posts. All of the photos on the home and contact pages are fed from Flickr. The about page has been given a slight makeover in the last.fm feed and the addition of Rob Miller’s cool Now Reading plugin. And regular readers may have noticed an uptick in their RSS spam with the new addition of the del.icio.us daily links posting.
So, feel free to bounce around, check things out, and let me know what you think. The old favorites like the story about Olive eating the bunny and the piece about creating a tabbed interface with DLs using CSS and jQuery haven’t moved.
I hope (I know I say this all the time) to add more here more frequently, but you all know how hard it is to do that.
Fare Thee Well
Today was Rob Maurizi’s last day at Fry. He wishes you well in your future endeavors.
Should you need to schedule lunch or drinks or discuss the merits of web standards and all things Apple, please email him at xxx@xxx.xxx or call xxx-xxx-xxxx.
See y’all at Blaggards.
WTH? Where am I?
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything, but I’ve been CRAZY busy.
Renovation, baby, holidays, moving, launch, development, two kids in a new house.
If you really want to know what’s happening, check out the twitter block on the right, or just follow me on twitter.
Did I Miss a F*n Memo?
I’m pissed. What the hell happened to my TV? I don’t mean the actual box, but the institution known as television.
The Christmas season is one of my favorite times of year for many reasons, but primarily because it’s Christmas. If you can’t understand that then that’s your problem.