Whats New?

December already and Christmas just round the corner. Sadly I dont feel like I have achieved a great deal this year. I dont think there is much happening over the few weeks to change that…
… BUT I shall reflect on the year later as it is still a little premature to do so.

This is the latest since my last blog:

MySpace - now over 5K friends, but slowing down as I’ve not been on it much since I recieved an email saying I was to have some privilages taken away. Not sure why, but someone else said they had the same thing, so hopefully it will be back to normal soon.
New Sites
Site 1 - Despite haveing a launch date of over a week ago, minor changes are yet to be made before can go live on my whacky site idea.
Site 2 - I have two admin areas to go through for the site I have been commissioning since April last year! This is the third set of developers working on it and they started scratch. The site is diverging further from my original spec - especially with regards to being well coded and modular. Even the basic key requirements seem to be beyond the programmers grasp, I am constantly going backward and forwards trying to get them to produce something true to the spec. The result is a mish mash of badly structured pages and database, I dread to think what the back end code is like.
As ever it seems impossible to keep to any sort of timescales that THEY set, or even just to get developers capable of understanding my requirements. Had I built the site myself I would be finished by now - instead I took the decision to employ “professionals” - and this is the result!!
Quite frankly it makes me fucking sick! I will NOT be using devlopers next year for anything other than very simple tasks. For a change I might pay myself a healthy salary.
Other News - I have spent this last week working and in meetings regarding the formation of a new company. I will say no more about it at this stage, but it is a very exciting opportunity. I am partnering with some individuals who are hugely successfull and are looking to add to it with this new company. I am in the process of putting together a business plan and provitional figures.

Company - My company had another good month, in fact the best month to date. This will show in January’s accounts. In contrast my personal balance sheet seems to have gone down since last month and I have not started buying Christmas gifts yet!

So, despite my web development woes business is still picking up - plenty to be optimistic about as the year starts to come to a close.