In another life, I\u2019d be working developing web applications.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s something about web application that gets my blood going \u2013 but in a good way. Is it the fact that I get instant feedback on whether I\u2019m doing something right or wrong? The fact that I\u2019m developing on such a short cycle for a platform that is so universal?<\/p>\n
I think it simultaneously scratches two urges that I don\u2019t really get to scratch otherwise.<\/p>\n
1. Programming<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve gotten pretty rusty in that whole software engineering department. Sure, I can still think through algorithms and I know how to use for loops properly, but I think I\u2019d have a hard time passing a senior level college CS class right now. Putting a webapp together in PHP is a bit like proving to myself that I\u2019ve still got it, even if \u201cit\u201d isn\u2019t quite what it used to be.<\/p>\n
Still, the merging of PHP, mySql, and HTML into some union of files that does what I tell it to do feels good. (I\u2019ve written about this before, too, on Day 138.)<\/p>\n
2. Website Design<\/p>\n
This indulges my artistic side in a really geeky way. I like to think that I have relatively good taste, at least when it comes to the aesthetic layout of images and text. I\u2019ve always been interested in graphic and communications design and even did a good bit of it in my first job out of college.<\/p>\n
Messing with CSS and the way webpages present themselves is a part of this ongoing training. As I continue to do it, I think I begin to find the kinds of layouts and designs that look best to me<\/em>. This is a bit self-indulgent, but I think it also speaks to finding my own style. The more I learn about what that is, the more I can accurately apply it to other areas of my life and job in a way that makes sense and makes me a better designer in general.<\/p>\n One last thing that really feels good about webapp development: results. Within a day, I can see actual results from my work. Within a week, the original vision of the site begins to form. It feels so fast and gratifying.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you have a webapp idea but want someone else to take a crack at it, I may be your man, depending on my mood and how busy I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In another life, I\u2019d be working developing web applications. There\u2019s something about web application that gets my blood going \u2013 but in a good way. Is it the fact that I get instant feedback on whether I\u2019m doing something right or wrong? The fact that I\u2019m developing on such a short cycle for a platform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[282,194,195],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-design","tag-programming","tag-website","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}