Software Developer, Media Nut, and Proud Father of Two

The time has come for me to depart from AssignByWeb. While I leave the comfort and security of a job that I have invested so much in, I am moving on to bigger and better things. I'm thankful for what they have done for me, but the grass finally looks greener elsewhere and thanks to my good friend Tim, I have the chance I have been looking for for quite some time now. Next week is my last day, and nothing personal, but I hope it will be the last time I have to work for them. While there are plenty of negative things I could say, I won't. They have done plenty of good for me, and while there is a lot of history between us, it is finally coming to an end. I will not be burning any bridges since I'm too nice of a guy to do such a thing, almost, arguably, to a fault.

After receiving some great feedback, I have finally worked my way into updating Autotab with some key fixes and handy new features. Before I release this as a final version, I'd like additional testing and critiques to be done to make v1.1 final and release it to the masses, so please download, test, and critique! Detailed descriptions can be found in the source file.

Several of my client's sites, as well as my own, have been moved to my new VPS with Slicehost.com, which I think has provided me with the best bang for my buck. I appreciate the service that Dreamhost has offered in the last 18 months, but enough is enough. Performance and reliability have become an issue with disks failures, random MySQL downtimes, and utter slowness. This is to be expected when you're on shared hosting... or is it? I can't help but sense that Dreamhost has started over-hosting, taking in more and more sites that have affected how well my sites run. I've been developing on CakePHP for the last few months, and even a barebone install has yielded in slower than desired results. I may be more sympathetic to the slowness if the site were running a CMS that had a large number of modules, but a fresh install of CakePHP? This isn't a diss on CMS' though, because some are well optimized, such as this site running Drupal.

I'm a weebit late on this, but here goes: Introducing Anna Marie Miller!

More photos can be seen at my Flickr account.