Nathan Levesque

I got a little email in my inbox the other day that frankly, surprised, irked, and amused me simultaneously. The email was from CSSFlash telling me that my site had been added successfully to their gallery. This puzzled me for a few minutes until after looking at their site I was able to vaguely remember submitting this site about 3 months ago! Now, I can understand that for a site that updates every 90 minutes with new CSS sites that they have to be about as loaded down with add requests as can be. So I figure OK, they were very busy, didn’t have until now to get to me.

Not quite true. Apparently CSSFlash simply took a screenshot of this site 2-3 months ago, queued it up, and it took until now for it to appear on the front page. I’m happy I was accepted to a CSS design site. But I redesigned this site back in November! And frankly, the design back then wasn’t that great. So now my opportunity for some free traffic is for nil.

But wait! The email they sent me said I should simply email them back if there were any problems! So I did. I even gave them the courtesy of taking a screenshot myself for them to use. No response. Thumbnail on their site hasn’t changed either. Much annoyance on my end.

I would have just hoped, that for a site like that they would be serious enough about it to have some quality control over what comes out. All it would have taken would be to click on the link to see something wasn’t right…

Update: As of 2/23/08, I have received no response nor has the image been updated. Seems the owners of CSSFlash have all but abandoned any responsiveness to their emails.

So it almost the New Year again (already is for some). I figure I should make a list on things I want to do this year as a programmer/developer. This last year I’ve accomplished very much as far as learning new technologies, programming languages and stuff. I didn’t have a list last year though, so here’s a list for this year in order of how much I want to do them (I think of this as more of a “could-do list”):

• Find a full time job in web development, right now I’m thinking in Flex development (I’m presently a student)
• Start, and hopefully accomplish a great deal of work on developing a long term Flex 3 project
• Learn Visual Basic .NET
• Become proficient in Java
• Learn ColdFusion
• Learn Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• Learn more JavaScript
• Do a Python port of PureMVC

I figure if I do at least 60% of this I can be happy with myself. Leave a link to your own Developer’s Resolution I’d love to read through others. Don’t forget, 2008 is a leap year so you have a whole full extra day to get stuff done!

Today I added an About section that is basically a description of myself. Coming later this weekend I will be removing the Portfolio section in favor of a Projects section which will contain code examples, information on applications I’m currently working on, and other such material. This is a move on my part to add more substance to this site as presently most of the content is in the form of my blog posts.

Keep and eye out for this stuff over the next few days.

I have added a polling feature and a post rating feature to the website. You can now vote on polls which I will be posting monthly and give posts rating so I can tell whether you like them or not without visitors having to go through the hassle of adding a comment (although I would greatly appreciate more comments too).