ccady's Journal: First day of "freedom"

We released the latest framework last night, on the one-year anniversary of the first release (for this client--we've been working on this for years). And that's where their patronage ends.

Now is the time for self-promotion and selling ourselves once again. I'd like to get a testimonial from our former CEO on how essential the code was in making the company successful, or even possible.

I have several major goals in my life. One is to pursue acting and the other is to pursue coding. In terms of acting, I need to build a better web site to show off my talents. I'd like to add some voice clips to the site. In terms of coding, I want to 1) get my LPIC certification, 2) badger phpwebhosting to get the latest version of PHP installed, so I can convert my site from ASP/Access to PHP/MySQL, and 3) get another good client/patron or become involved in a startup with potential. I'm most partial to the startup idea. I'm young enough to tolerate a reasonable risk.

I repurposed the "junk" machine that my step-father threw away, and made a headless Linux box that I can get to from the net. I've just got it running commandline stuff, and some test services, such as apache2. I'm thrilled. I realized that the only hard parts of Linux are in the GUI. The command line is simple and powerful. I should reorganize my life to need a GUI less.