Tales of a Designer

Re-adjusting Things

So the holiday season is always a busy time of the year. And since this is the first holiday season for this blog, I realized that things slowed down a tad bit, so I’m trying to get back in the swing of things. Being out of down puts a nice cramp into blogging, but family comes first.

I also just started a new job this week as a User Interface Engineer, so my work schedule is a little different. Blogging at work might not be so easy because of the amount of work that I’ll have, so I will have to force myself to stay in the zone when I get home to write here. But I’m not worried about that.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been getting used to using BBEdit for my coding platform. Before hand, I was “born and raised” on Dreamweaver ever since I started learning how to code. Now I didn’t necessarily rely on the “design” view much at all, but never the less, it’s still a WYSIWYG. It did, however, make me a little nervous when I knew that the new job wasn’t going to be using those. Why nervous? No idea.

When it came time for me to man up and use a pure text editor, I felt right at home. I didn’t miss using Dreamweaver at all. With that realization, I noticed it’s really nice knowing the code, and not leaning on something to do the work for me. I think that while using Dreamweaver, that maybe I underestimated my skill level, so it made me happy to see I didn’t need a “just in case” app for knowing the code. You either know it or you don’t!

So I am getting back in the swing of things, and re-adjusting my schedule to accommodate the new job, but I have to say….I love this stuff!