Falling in love again
Posted on September 13th, 2007 in Geek Stuff, MySQL, PHP, Web Development
It has been a while since I have had a chance to translate the Simple Factory method and the Factory Pattern from the Head First Design Patterns book. I have wanted to, but I have been so buried in development that I have really not had time to spend with my now second favorite book.
Of course, I am not complaining. I actually have developed an entirely new fondness for web development in recent weeks. I have been nose deep in framework development at work. As I have mentioned before, my company is very technology oriented for not being a tech company. As a result, I get to develop applications for all the newest technologies every day. I use Linux (RHES or Fedora Core 6), Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5. And I am loving it.
In fact, I have reviewed some PHP 4 code recently and thought that it so needed to be spruced up into some cool PHP5 objects. And then it hit me. I am a spoiled technobrat. I get to work in an environment most devheads would dream of being able to play in. I get to do things locally, in dev and in test that many never get a chance to do at all. And I have a team of experienced IT professionals working with me to guide me and help me learn how to get things up and running and keep them that way. I work a team of network specialists, several data masters (and one super database guru) and a guy who knows computers inside and out. I also have an associate web developer that I get to collaborate with and that gets to work with me in unison as we develop the framework that will drive all of the company’s web applications in the future. I am spoiled rotten.
But the thing I like most about the environment that I code in is that it is as close to the cutting edge of stable technology as it gets. Whenever we need a new site, we roll out an entire machine for it. We set it up from the go with our own choice of OS (Linux at the moment) and we get to set up our server software, database software, our code management software (if needed on the machine) and everything we want, the way we want it. And if we don’t like it, we get to start over the way we want. It is just plain awesome.
And it has made me fall in love developing again. I didn’t realize it until a few days ago, but I am truly enjoying developing now more than I have in the past. And not just server side development. I am talking about the whole enchilada. Client side, UI, Ajax, markup, CSS… oh baby I am getting sweaty palms just writing about it.
Anyway, try to not hate me because I am spoiled. You can me because I am beautiful, but not because I am spoiled.
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