First draw
After a few weeks of planning, I finally got the chance to put up my own technical blog. I have a very rough schedule lately since I have just started my new job here in one of the companies in SBMA. I am working as a Project Lead for Revacomm, a Hawaii-based IT company that specializes in web development for SME's and Large Enterprise. Currently, we use several technologies to deliver these products. We have LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl) as our primary platform for our products. This is a very cost –effective platform for SME’s. We also have Microsoft technologies like ASP / COM and Microsoft .NET. Right now, I am not handling any Microsoft Technology based project. Product customization is one of our areas. Open-source products like Mambo CMS (Content Management System) and, OSCommerce Shopping Cart are customized to fit customer’s needs. This will be fully-integrated to their website. These products are well-modularized so integration can be clean, though not necessarily be easy. These products are highly scalable when it comes to performance. Also, they come under the open-source bandwagon so the tag price is off.
I intend to direct my blog on high-level aspect of web development rather delving into the nuts-and-bolts of it. I have two reasons for this: First, my job calls for it. As a Project Lead I should try to avoid going in details when it comes to development. I believe that Project Lead needs to be concerned on decisions rather then development itself. Though technical knowhow is a must, deciding how to approach things, looking for methodologies and directing developers in coherent methods is much more important to me. This should not be true in all cases though. QC for example, which is also part of my job, requires attention in details. But since technical knowhow is a must, this should not be a big issue. Second, I am a Microsoft developer by heart. If I will go to that level of details, I would love to do it the Microsoft way. They have provided developers with an easy, stable and robust framework that’s why it’s very inviting.
So that would be my first draw. I am targeting a 4-5 technical blogs a month (hey, easy on me. I have a job and another blog). I hope I can keep that up. Thanks and stay safe everyone!