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July 03, 2004
Day 2 of Work
Working at Matterform Media is definitely an interesting experience. On the first day, I was mostly doing some routine image touchups and discussing XML. On the second day, I was designing a database and writing XSLT. I expect (and hope) that it continues to be this varied.
I took some code home and I expect I'll be studying it and possibly implementing it in a couple different languages shortly. I'm eager to implement in the Cocoa framework, but it seems to be hair-raising to learn on one's own. Nothing at Matterform is implemented in Cocoa at this point in time; everything is done in PHP or REALbasic. Still, Michael seems to be content with whatever works; they have C code laying around, they have ancient stuff that was originally in HyperCard. Michael doesn't really seem to care what the implementation language is, so long as the product works and can be sold. In fact, every internal-use program we write, we are expected to consider making a commercial product.
This level of commercialism is really quite new to me, but I find that it is acceptable. I would rather be developing handy, interesting Mac programs than developing dull satelite imaging programs. I wanted to be an application developer, and here I am, that's what I do. :)
I'm trying to think of a product I could write in my spare time that we could sell, so that I could have my job title changed and make some pretty serious money. That seems a long way off right now though, what with the move and whatnot.
We still haven't heard from Kent about our new apartment. I have agreed to hire Tim and a friend of his to do the moving for us, at half the cost of the UHaul and with movers carrying stuff for me rather than having to do all of the carrying. They were happy about the money side of things too so I think it will be pretty good, hopefully a less horrible move than the first one, though I'm still going to be stressed about it.
Bill and I (mostly Bill) managed the migration of storytotell to this server, so now all of these pages are going to becoming from the same machine. There seems to be some lingering issues with email, but we're going to have them sorted out pretty soon.
Posted by FusionGyro at July 3, 2004 06:21 PM