1 week to go
Posted: 12th September 2009
Only one week to go and I can barely contain myself!
I suspect its going to be strange being out of employment for a year but that will be overcome by the excitement I have for this course. Apparently it is clearly visible that I start bouncing up and down whenever I start talking about it.
Work has been eventful as I helped conduct several interviews for my replacement (I led the technical part) and it was surprising to say the least. A lot of the candidates did not seem to have the technical nouse to cope with questions which, had I been asked, I would have jumped for joy. They were certainly not difficult and I found myself in disbelief that people in the South Yorkshire area are not adept at web development. Eventually however we did find someone and I am encouraged by his determination and technical mind. Perhaps a little inexperienced but definitely one to look out for in the future.
In the meantime I have launched two new sites: the Sheffield Business Awards 2009 site and a revamped site for Spectrum Leisure Training both of which feature my first uses of JQuery which I have to say is an exceptionally good toolkit. It really seems that web development is really maturing as a bona fide software development practice and not a bunch of script kiddies hacking bits of code together.
I also took part in the Great Yorkshire Run in Sheffield which features (in my opinion) a quite gruelling course, including a 200m finish up a 30 degree hill. I managed to clock in at 45 minutes dead which I was pleased with given the total lack of training save about 6 sessions on a treadmill using a Nike+ workout.