Still Exciting
The Web is still exciting. I’m involved at the core of an e-commerce company, and love every second of it. There are still a ton of places that can be leveraged and built upon. Hell, I still love coding some things myself, and have yet to even touch my first e-commerce application. But, I can say this: it’s coming. I feel the urge stronger more each day to develop something that deals with electronic commerce, users, and all of that really fun and exciting stuff.
There are a ton of technologies that are very, very cool and have yet to be used in a ton of areas. One such example includes Windows Forms. I wish I was more of a Microsoft guy than a PHP guy just for this stuff alone. However, there are a ton of things that Google is doing with AJAX that really gets me going. I’ve explored this before with PHP / JavaScript / XML, but have yet to get really deeply into it.
Away from my full-time job, I’m working on a ticket-based support app that I’m calling 24×7. It’s going to be pretty simple in its first iteration, just e-mail pulls, customer recognition, tying e-mail responses to a single ticket, etc… Nothing too serious. However, I hope that I get to use these technologies that I find really awesome more and more.
Plus, I know that I’ll be able to track things more effectively for nothing. Congrats, Google. You’ve done it again with Analytics — free, enterprise-grade analytics based on the coolness that is Urchin. Wow. I continue to love this stuff more and more each day.
