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I have deleted my LinkedIn account of 16 years. I hadn't even touched it in several years and I'm not sure I've ever really gotten much value out of it. I had been considering leaving for a while, and a new terms of service pushed me over the edge, not because of anything in it (I didn't even read it) but because the cost of reading it seemed higher than the continued value from keeping the service.

I made it through the first week of working from home during this virus-caused lockdown. Continue reading post "#2746"

Friday was the last day working at the Cogneato offices until this coronavirus blows over. Continue reading post "Cogneato to work from home due to COVID-19"

I was at work a couple hours later than usual today. Continue reading post "#2387"

Weird day today. Off work early because of a power outage. Continue reading post "#2212"

I work tomorrow, but it still kind of feels like a four day weekend, because I h…

Kind of a late night working getting a messed up newsletter send back on track. Continue reading post "#2031"

Today was not a great day at work: I discovered that my work laptop was stolen over the weekend. Continue reading post "Work theft"

Went to look at Cogneato's new offices. The company is moving downtown (still Akron) catty-corner to Summit Artspace. Continue reading post "#1499"

Almost 7 years later and I still occasionally have dreams about working at the Winking Lizard. I just awoke from one where I had gone back, first day. Continue reading post "#1318"

Wednesday evening, as an addition to my regularly scheduled shift, I got to play…

I've now been at Cogneato for a little over three months. It is definitely long term now. I am still liking it, especially since I've been branching out into other areas even more. I've been doing more programming in PHP and Javascript to set sites up and add functionality, and have even gotten to work a little with SQL again.

For example, on one site, called Pink Rave, I had to add blog functionality, which isn't quite built right in like with Wordpress. For the standard "archive" box, I had to make a bit to spin through all posts and chunk them based on date, then output the represented dates in the box. For the search functionality, Cogneato's CMS has nothing built in, so I had to do custom queries. They are using the BLOB data type, so I couldn't use the FULLTEXT searching, instead having to build concatenated LIKE statements. Luckily, the CMS can easily put the results of custom queries into its result objects, so it is easy to then work with them like I otherwise would. In fact, for this blog, I handle all multiple item listings with the same output script that just fills the object array with different data depending on the type of page.

In addition to my front-end development at Cogneato, I've begun doing site SEO.…

Well, it seems like my job at Cogneato is likely to end up long term. Cogneato…

Yay! I finally found a job. After six months of no income, I needed it. I'm doing front-end development for Cogneato, a small web development firm in Akron. They've done quite a few sites over the past decade, and have their own CMS/CRM they've built over that period. It's pretty neat, allowing for some complicated things to be done with data and interesting features for managing customer information. It has many fancy AJAX features in the administrator interface. There have been seven people working there, and another one is coming soon. I only get to work on the front-end though.

Cogneato is only a 20 or so minute drive from my house. The atmosphere is very casual (hoodies instead of ties) and relaxed, very comfortable to work at. The owner and all the employees have been very nice.

School

I'm done with school. The semester is over, finished on Wednesday.  I also happened to have finished the last classes for my degree.  For all intents and purposes, I have graduated.  I'm not sure when it is official or what not.  In fact, I've received almost no information on graduation, the ceremony, anything.  As I recall at Kent, they were sure to tell us not only about the upcoming graduation but about the cap and gown we needed to purchase, etc.  I was much more aware of what was going on.  At Tri-C, I've only recently come to the conclusion that the ceremony is most likely only done once a year, in May.  Not sure if I get my degree before then or what.

So now I have little to do.  I have no job and no school, two of the more time consuming parts of my life thus far.  I am considering taking another web-based class or two next semester.  That could be nice if they aren't too hard.  If they are, it might be hard to enter into a full-time job (hopefully), work some freelance projects (hopefully), etc, and still do alright.  If they are too easy, I might as well just get books and use online resources instead, and be able to learn exactly what I want at my own pace.  I'm still thinking on this.

Jobs

As my monetary reserves drain, I am in the process of looking for a job, and will look much harder now than I had while still in school.

I did have promising possibilities come up at a recent Tri-C IT event.

Angela Berlingeri, my instructor for my Web II class, forwarded me an email abo…

I am very excited about this. Last week I asked Nadia, a girl from my Web II cl…

This is a little late perhaps, but I am now unemployed. My internship at RPM h…

It looks like I've got an internship for the eBusiness Managment program I've r…