Changes and LessConf
Hello to all of my new visitors from LessConf and BarCampJax. I had an absolutely amazing time there talking to everyone.
For those that don’t know, LessConf was a conference put on this past weekend in Jacksonville, with a variety of talks for Entrepreneurs and Developers. It was definitely a great time, and I’m proud of Allan and Steve for their hard work putting this together. A complete success, and I’m excited for the next time they have it. Every one of the talks were great.
Every time I go to a conference, I always get that spark of motivation to work on my own projects, or just just feel so much better with the network connections. This time around, with all the talk on brands and what not, and Gary Vee’s very inspirational talk about brand equity and the amount of self-confidence he has really got me going about my brand, and I’m anxious to work on my own brand and side projects more.
There hasn’t been any new updates here as I have been very busy with moving into my new place, as well as out on the job search. So basically my hiatus that I figured was going to come, actually happened a little later than I thought.
I’m finally taking the time out this week to work on a couple things. Blackened Sun will have some changes being made to it, in terms of setting up my about page, as well as a portfolio/resume. So please excuse the mess if you see one.
Also, I’m working on an exciting new project that I have been putting off for far too long. When I am finished enough to have people try it out, I will be announcing it here on my blog. A lot of the LessConf’ers as well as friends of mine already know bits and pieces of what I am hoping to develop and I plan to have something to show off by the end of this week. I think I can do it!
I believe my blog will be changing direction. I’m constantly torn on if this blog should discuss personal things, be a place for me to rant, or keep things professional and only discuss things related to my field of Web Development. I always felt like the blog should stay “professional” but I notice time and time again that I end up going out on a tangent and discussing my life, and other random thoughts I may have about things that happen around me. What are your thoughts on this? Do you like the blog posts I have so far, would you prefer a change?
I am going to promise at least one new blog post a week, though, regardless. I really want to make sure I keep this updated!
Temporary Hiatus
As I have been packing, painting, and cleaning for the move to my new place, I simply haven’t had the mindset (or the ideas) for new blog posts. I have been working and fixing up the place every day for the past 5 days, and it’s not slowing down yet. I am exhausted, but it must get done. Therefore, it may be a little while until I update this again.
I set out for the goal of updating this twice a week, but I always struggle to come up with things to talk about, especially considering that I want to avoid directly talking about my personal life (well, perhaps at the most keeping it vague).
So perhaps this “hiatus” may simply mean less frequency with my blog posting. *shrug* It certainly didn’t help that my blog went down for that week I was on vacation, and it still hasn’t fully recovered (you might notice that the earlier blog posts are still missing images)… It’s frustrating when your code goes down and there’s nothing you can do about it. Watch, as soon as this post is made, it won’t actually mean anything and I’ll find random stuff to rant about and post on here.
Be forewarned, my blog posting may have less frequency. Though this post gave me the idea for another entry, which will be up later this week 
Learning Something New: Jocularity
I just thought this was amusing. I honestly didn’t know the definition of jocularity before today. My program manager was using it in a conversation to the bulk of us in the office. And he used the word multiple times, so I was honest and said “what’s Jocularity?” and thankfully I wasn’t the only one that didn’t know, hahahaha…
So, another one of those “learn something new” days.
For those that don’t know:
jocularity – a feeling facetious merriment [source]
Now go out and use the word! I’ll probably forget it in a week. hah.