Archive for December, 2009

Tiny Projects, Tiny Timesheets

Its quite late, but I thought I would put a quick post together.

For the past, what 6 years?, I have been developing software with friends.  BaseX which was a desktop application for architects and what we found out too late was liked by quite a few clients.  However we didn’t like it.  It caused us too much work with updates to the software and database as we didn’t have much infrastructure in place.

After BaseX came projecttime.  It was a lesser in functionality version of BaseX but this time we aimed it at everyone.  We stripped back the stuff that was Architects only, and then made some stuff generic.  However the world got the better of us, and recession hit hard.  We went our seperate ways.

Well being the only programmer in that team, also having an awesome job with Frame , and lots of free time seeing as am single (at time of writing ;) ), I decided to play with the ideas in projecttime.  tiny.projecttime was born.

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New endings, old beginings

2009 is ending, with only 6 days to go.  At New Year, millions of people around the world will give the same old resolutions, and break them instantly.  I have done it many times before – “I’ll get fit”, “I’ll save money”, “I’ll do this”, “I’ll do that” – blah muther fucking blah!  However this time I have a reason to do all this.  A few reasons in fact.

In 2009 I fell ill, again, but this time I grabbed the illness by the balls and instead of doing what everyone else in the world seems to do, and go on drugs from your doctor to try and get over it, I went the alternative route.  I have family members that have fallen into the drugs trap and their lives become shit.  I don’t want to be that way.  I choose life.  I found yoga, I found meditation but I can’t seem to do it, and I found out that I don’t need to drink all the time to have fun.

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