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GetGlue Website Update

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Today we pushed a huge update to GetGlue.com. I’ve been working on this update non-stop for the past two weeks and I’m hugely proud of the result. Of course this was a team effort to get the final product out the door but personally I feel very accomplished that my hard work is now viewable by all.

If you have some time today and want to try something new and fun I strongly suggest you sign up and enjoy the brand new website I helped create. :)

Update: Check out the official GetGlue blog update for a full run down of all the new features.

Living A Busy Life

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There’s gotta be something to write about.

I have some downtime, so I have time to relax and just write about what comes to my mind.

I find that’s what’s easiest. When I have nothing else to do but write. That’s when I get the most writing done and the best writing done.

Sadly that doesn’t happen as much as I’d like. Most of the time I’m busy. Busy at work, busy at home, busy with myself. Life can really ramp up unlike its ever done before.
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New Job At GetGlue

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In the land of Harry things have been mighty busy. He has been away from his lovely blog, out marauding for new land and fresh fruit. He has been searching high above the coastline, cupping his hand above his eyes to shield himself from the sun’s mighty gaze. He stood there atop the cliff, gazing out past everything that he has since come to call familiar. He stood and gazed west, straining his eyes from their sockets, hoping to perceive success just before it broached the horizon.

And how did the sun beat upon his brow! Each un-tamed beam piercing his skin to draw sweat from its pore, their outward push beginning along his perspiring brow. The sun beat – the sweat swam! No relent until dawn when the winds from the south picked up their weight and began their singing song.

Yet it wasn’t long into the month when Success – in all her wonderful fashion – made her triumphant appearance over the divide. She stepped into sight as daylight touched the earth, smiling into the future as sun-rays cascaded around. The last winds of the night picked themselves up and threw themselves into her hair, casting all follicles asunder. And as she looked down from her perception above her eyes locked with Harry’s and time stood still. Magical white nothingness crashed into existence, erasing Harry and Success, leaving behind nothing but a clean whiteness that bleach couldn’t hope to come close.

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It is with great joy that I can announce I have accepted a new job. Starting May 9th of this year I will begin work as Web Developer at GetGlue.com. The past seven months at dLife.com have proven tremendously rewarding however the lull of the future has proven too great to ignore. This next month will prove tremendously tumultuous due to all the changes occurring but please bear with me as I venture forward. Thank you – and thank you – for all of your support over the past couple of months. It would not have been the same without you.

Interests, Focuses & Accomplishments

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Computers, Words, Music, Movies

There are only so many things a person can accomplish during their life. Trying to do too many things can result in one of two outcomes: nothing gets done or nothing gets done well. Both of these options more or less terrify me which is why I take the weaker option of not getting anything done.

Sometimes I feel like I try to accomplish too many things at once, and that feeling overwhelms me. I get extremely flustered and apprehensive as I approach my mental mound of self-directed duties that I give off a slight jump and yelp as I then scurry off to cower in the unproductive shadows.

Yet it’d be far wiser to approach my inner tasks as I do my outer ones: breaking down the mountain that is the project I want accomplished into small goals and milestones. With the milestones I can then see my successes and be that much more proud and aware of my accomplishment. After only a few milestones the task is complete and all the previous feelings of anxiety simply fall to the wayside.

So I guess this means my first task is to put down my first milestone I need to meet. Fortunately for me I know just where that sucker belongs.

Little Chipmunk

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Saw this little guy on my way home after work last night. On an unrelated note, I love being able to declare something being “after work” and for it to still be light outside. Simply marvelous.

UPDATE!: I’ve been informed that is no chipmunk and is in fact a squirrel. Duly noted and taken note of! Squirrely thing!

Two Matters of The Mind

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The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Yet the wasting of one’s mind cannot always be prevented. There are only so many hours in a day and attempts to complete all desired tasks are unattainable. I won’t dare to state the impossibility of such feats for I am sure those of more unique positions are capable of fulfilling and living their dreams daily, however for myself the possibility of completing all that I wish on a daily basis is close to impossible and far from easy.

It seems that my mind daily rotates from topics of extreme rigidity such as programming and coding, to those of fanciful imaginings such as the poems that I write and sometimes post to this blog. Yet for me to enjoy each of these passions in one day is hard to obtain, for the time spent on each focus – and done well – detracts from the time allowed for the other (all this without concern for the time taken to switch between).

So what am I to do? What I have been doing: working on one topic to its completion and then journeying over to the other focus and resume or begin a work that is otherwise incompatible with the former. Coding and writing both make use of my fingers on the keyboard however the intent and focus of each are at odds. The former requires precision whereas the latter demands freedom. To write a line in a program and then a line in a poem is a feat I have yet to perform nor seen done with seamless integration.

And so I will go forward, as only one can, completing tasks as I am able, learning from all my persuasions and incorporating them while remaining stable.

At Work: Redesign of dLife.com

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Redesigning a website is never a light task. Depending on the size and breadth of the existing website it can sometimes be a horribly arduous undertaking. Yet usually redesigns are for the better. Without the pain of change there can be no joy from progress.

For the past couple of months I’ve been living this process. When I first began work at dlife.com I was quickly thrown into the middle of a 100%-top-to-bottom-bottom-to-top website redesign. This redesign was not just a visual overhaul but also an architectural one. Every aspect of the dlife.com website was to be touched, leaving no page un-modified.

Some two weeks ago the redesigned dLife was finally ready to go live. So on February 16th my co-workers and I hunkered down at dLife HQ till the early hours of the morning and launched dLife 2.0.

Take a look at the attached screen-shots to see how dLife looked before and after the redesign. And please – visit dLife.com and enjoy a premier online diabetic resource.

Working In Overdrive

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You may be wondering why I haven’t been so active here recently (recently being the past two months, which I suppose should more appropriately be described as ‘lately’).

Work, the 9-5 gig that keeps me warm, has been placed firmly into overdrive the past two months. This involves long and rigorous days that leave me me thoroughly exhausted when I get home.

The reason for all this extreme activity? Well, it will be revealed tomorrow. And I cannot wait to tell you about it then. =)

A Busy December Is A Lovely December

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For a variety of reasons I have been exceptionally busy the past couple of days, resulting in no new posts or explanation. This is the beginning of an explanation, but before I jump into detail let me derail my train of thought:

Until this year, every December I’ve experienced during my formative years was spent in school, studying and working on mid-terms and projects. This left every December stressful and busy, flying past without concern for my need to sleep, leaving me winded, dizzy, and stumbling into January on shaky legs.

I haven’t known any other way to operate. December was the month of long essays and complex projects. December was the month of stress-riddled sleep that was overwhelmingly delivered in short supply. Along with the unbearable cold and schizophrenic New England weather, December has always been a darkly depressing month.

For the first time in my life I am not spending my December studying for finals and mid-terms. And you know what? It’s glorious.

Sure, work is reaching a fever pitch of activity and workload, but it’s work that I love. As the year expires project deadlines loom, pushing all of to start the New Year on the right foot. It’s to be expected, it’s fun to finally experience, and it’s leaving me without any extra free time to write these posts.

But then how is this one being written? As the clock struck midnight I began to type, and so here you see the result. Forgive any sloppiness, the day has been long and my mind is going mad while I stall going to bed.

And I shall stall no more.