It’s been a long time…
It’s been a very long time since my last post, due to my being so busy with my new work duties. In the coming few months I hope to accomplish a few things.
I plan on a return to Nevada to accompany my friend on his Bighorn Sheep hunt. I have two weeks of vacation scheduled in November for the event. Although I was unable to attend, the crew has already been on two scouting trips. The outlook is promising. You can view some pics of the second scouting trip here (smugmug is pretty slick stuff).
I would also like to finish reading PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra. I just started this book, and so far it is very good. This may be the material that pushes my thinking through the old procedural mindset barrier. I have, however, found that it’s quite difficult for me to ‘sharpen the saw’ relative to OOP when I don’t get time to bury myself in the reading then put the concepts to work in the form of code.
When I started my new job, I built a new website for my department. It works, but it is an excellent example of a code base that would benefit from refactoring. Given (or taking if I don’t sleep) adequate time to read through Matt’s book, I expect I can greatly improve my OOP knowledge as well as the code base in question.