It’s good to have a goal I suppose. For me, I’ve found a couple of bright ideas I believe are worthy of turning into goals and having more than a wee bit of fun with. The first is a book idea. Before you go groaning yet again dear reader, I do believe one of my book ideas will see print some day. As most of you are aware, I’m a fan of cricket and spend some time following the events of the international tours. It hit me the other day, with the rules being applied to Irish cricketers so they can compete for England, what would happen if you had an American who had been good enough to play for England, the Windies, or any other Test nation? Instead of taking this on as a building of the career, I looked at it from the opposite light. Looking at the twilight of the career and casting backward glances across the spectrum to see what it looked like. I think I will blog some of the pieces as I am trying to write them, just because I want to see how it sounds.
The other bright idea combines my love of programming with a challenge to improve it. I’ve been messing around with WP themes. Why not? This is a WordPress blog. I have seen several parent themes and other really interesting themes which have been written over time. Each tutorial I see references things just a little differently in order to change the complexity level. Some make them basic and easy in order to ensure people will get the code. There are some which are highly detailed and complex hoping to extend the reader’s skills into new directions. Well, I, for one, am intrigued about the possibilities and would like to create, deliver, and eventually deploy the most complete, read complex, WP theme. I don’t think it would be that hard; especially considering most of the themes out there can have 10 to 15 pages, I can do that with my eyes closed.
Right now, I’m trying to write MVC code and work it into something which will be useful for the district in a web app. I haven’t done a lot of .NET work and that makes me more concerned since I have to do this in a .NET frame of some type. I am also going to start coding a desktop app in VB.NET just to see if I can learn it well enough to create something. The funny part will be when I get it done.
Well, enough of that for now. I have other entries to write and other sacred cattle to slay.
