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Monday, April 7, 2008
The Geek Garage
I come from a background in videogame development; I started out as a line-level programmer and, over the course of a dozen years, worked my way up to engineering management and then president of my own company. That means I have a lot of technical knowledge under my belt, so much when Eminence has technology needs to be addressed I’m usually the first--and often the last--stop.
For the course of the last month or two, our big technological need was a new version of the website. I’d thrown the current version together fairly quickly, and it wasn’t really competitive or up to snuff. It’s hard to add content or adjust the fleet, and it just plain doesn’t look all that great; it certainly doesn’t give off the “luxury service” aura that a company like Eminence Luxury Services deserves.
According to the original plan the new version of the website should have been ready to launch over the weekend, but things have been very busy around the office, and as a former game developer I’m not particularly conversant with the concept of “being on time”, so I’m running way behind. My plan for today’s post had been to talk about some of the great new stuff we’ve got on the site, but as the site’s not yet live this seems a bit premature. Instead, I’ve decided to write up a few “behind the scenes” notes on my experiences developing the site.
Let me pause here and be very clear: of my vast regular readership--hi mom!--this entry will be of interest to exactly none of you. I’d highly recommend that you stop reading now. I’m sure that Jalopnik has some interesting recent car news, or if you really insist on doing something Eminence related perhaps you might check out the Eminence Luxury Services MySpace page. What follows is, at best, of interest only to nerds like myself, and by that I mean probably only the subset who work in videogame development and are interested in the differences encountered in web work.
Anyone still with me? No? Excellent! Now then, a quick list of thoughts, recommendations, and commentary, in no particular order:
[Update: Upon further reflection, I've decided that the people reading this blog really don't care much about website development. I also realized that I can--and, given the chance, likely will--go on at length about nerd stuff. To make things more pleasant all around, I've decided to start a second blog and relocate the long, rambling content of this post over there. If you want to continue reading, please click through to the original post, in all of it's glory, here.]
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