[wiki] Fantastic Work

Remillard · 2010-01-01 01:06:16

For various reasons, I found myself remembering some of the effort with Textpattern long ago and visited the wiki site. It really looks fantastic and I just thought I’d congratulate all those who worked so hard on it. I even found my (very) old tutorial Textpattern 101. I don’t know how close it matches the current implementation of TXP, but for prose it still holds up pretty well I think :-).

Anyhow, just thought I’d stick my head in, say hello, and wish everyone a Happy New Year.

maniqui · 2010-01-01 03:45:15

Oh, the great Remillard is here! Once, mdn_if_section was my favourite plugin. Shame it was made obsolete by txp:if_section ;)
Are you still using Textpattern? It’s still a very fun thing!
And have you visited the new Textpattern website?

And while here, I also would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Remillard · 2010-01-01 04:04:27

All the better if some of that basic functionality we had to write plugins for was brought into the baseline. IMHO plugins ought to be for exotic things. But those were heady pioneering days and TXP is fully mature from what i can tell. (And I’m not that great :-)).

I haven’t done much web development at all, but what I fiddle with these days is tinkering with Ruby and Rails. I find it fascinating that so many ideas that were in TXP are also in Rails in some fashion (full on templates, partial templates, etc.) That might be why I was thinking about TXP — reading about the partial templates and thinking “you know hey that was just like the article forms where you could customize small atomic pieces of content.”

I’ve been unemployed for awhile — the economy hit the Oregon area very hard and my usual engineering shtick has been hard to find a home for. I never did enough web development to really build a portfolio either. I just tinkered and unfortunately that doesn’t lend itself to finding work in that vein either.

Anyhow, enough of that business. :-)

Remillard · 2011-10-13 14:23:58

Yes, thank you. I’m once again gainfully employed as of March, 2010. You have to understand though, that I was never employed as a web developer. That was always just sort of a side interest. I’m an electrical engineer specializing in hardware design languages, and programmable gate arrays. I did, sadly, end up having to move out of the Oregon area though.

As far as requesting Textpattern, I can’t say I have seen anything either, but then I haven’t been looking. My best guess for making oneself highly employable in web development would be to develop a foundation in several platforms and languages and fine tune the graphical skills. That will probably enable one to cast the widest net. It might help to specialize in something particular, but I’d go for breadth over depth myself.

Note, I could be entirely wrong about the way to go about it. See the part about being a EE :-). Anyhow, good luck with your own job hunting!

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