Day 1 End

So today I completed all of my goals.  

The goals tomorrow are simple:  

Read 40 pages in Linux.  
Program the client onboarding button's UI.
Remove all the unnecessary alerts out of the Courier Onboarding Button.


I did all of these and man am I freaking tired.  Whew.  


Now what will I do tomorrow.


Tomorrow I am going to do the following:


1.  Read another thirty pages out of Linux.
2.  Program the client onboarding front end to take in all the data.
3.  Edit 20 pages of my book.  I've got to tie up this loose end.
4. Write the SQL uptake statement.
5.  Test the front end UI just to be sure it works as well as it did before I removed all of those alerts.
6. Make sure I check for quote marks in all of the free text fields I've got in the first button.


Long day tomorrow.

Maybe a beer?  I deserve it.

Day 1

So I received a call from a recruiter this morning.  It was a good call but he wanted to immediately shoe horn me into a shitty position doing exactly what I was doing previously.  I informed him I didn't want to do that and he said okay and we hung up the phone.  Now what I want to do is to go to work.  So I'm going to have a cup of coffee (I have a friend named Joe, a cup of Joe feels not awesome) and read the Linux book.  

I'll keep you posted. 

I'm still reeling a bit to be honest.  My former boss emailed me today.  I'm sure 'they' are making plans right now to smooth the move out the door.  She wants to talk sometime.  I really don't know what about.  She hit me with a bus.  Now she wants to have a beer.  I'm not really sure how to take that.  I 'm not even sure that I want to take that.  I'm not sure about the entire situation with her.  But I do know that today I have to put one foot in front of the other.  So that's what I'm going to do right now.

GFM - Part 2

Yo.  So here's where we're at.  The Courier Onboarding Button is done for the most part.  Now I have to build out the Client Onboarding Button.

Here's some other things I have to do:

1.  Read the Linux Book.
2.  Read the Grep Book
3.  Read the Apache Book
4.  Read the Bash Book
5.  Read the Sendmail Book
6.  Get the mail sent.

The goals tomorrow are simple:  

Read 40 pages in Linux.  
Program the client onboarding button's UI.
Remove all the unnecessary alerts out of the Courier Onboarding Button.


2.  Client Onboarding Button
3.  Courier Login Button
4.  Client Login Button and Order Placement
5.  the iPhone App
6.  the Android App


Other Parts:


1.  The Apache Server 
2.  The CGI scripts that process the responses to the website/apps
3.  Email sending

David Cohen Email

At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I read this quote from Corey Booker.  Just now I received an email from David Cohen of Tech stars.  This is where I am supposed to be.  Good.  It has to be.  Thank you God.

 

GFM

GFM is the subject of this blog for probably the foreseeable future.  GFM is doing okay right now.  I have some SQL to write and some PHP to debug but after that I'll have completed a significant portion of GFM from a technical perspective.  I'll have finished 1/6th of the user facing interface.  Namely I'll have finished the Courier Onboarding Button which is the most complex.  

What's next:

2.  Client Onboarding Button
3.  Courier Login Button
4.  Client Login Button and Order Placement
5.  the iPhone App
6.  the Android App


Other Parts:


1.  The Apache Server 
2.  The CGI scripts that process the responses to the website/apps
3.  Email sending


Skills I know now:


1. mySQL
2. PHP
3. Twilio
4. Apache - a little

How I feel about GFM:

Promising but a little down. I didn't expect what hit me today.  See the previous post.

Fired

I'm about to get fired.  I can feel it in the air.  Today I got rolled off of a project and I know that it was the last straw.  I'm about to get shit canned.  This is not a good feeling but for me to bury it would be doubly dangerous.  So I am here to 'talk' about it.  Talking about somethings with people is brutal but talking about it here is okay.  

I don't feel like I deserve it. But I knew it was coming.  I could just feel it.  Not because of people mind you but just kind of spiritually.  Like I had taken all I was going to learn here and now it was time for me to move on.  So I'm moving on.  

I feel strange but free.  I'm a bit worried but not too much.  I believe in spiritual signs.  As soon as I got to the train station I knew I would be okay.  I checked my Gmail and the first thing I saw was an email for PHP programmers with one year of experience.   I was really excited about that.  I saw it as a sign.  I think it is.  Right after I write this I'll send out my resume.  

As for GFM I have some SQL to write tonight, some code to debug.  I think what I'm going to do is hit my boss up for an investment of 20K.  If he says yes then I'll be able to work on GFM for the next 6 months non-stop.  If he says no (and I suspect he will) I'll end up working at this PHP shop sharpening my skills until I can launch GFM.  I think GFM is going to be a huge monster success.  I think I'll be able to help alot of people.  I'll be able to tell a lot of people I told you so.  But until then I'd better just get to work.  

I'm still reeling a little bit but it's to be expected.  Now it's on to the next project.  It doesn't feel good but this is a necessary step.  I have to launch GFM.  It's a part of my destiny.

Crazy Bitch

So last night I was sitting in my bedroom programming a website when someone calls me and asks me if I'm a programmer.  I say yes as I'm programming as they call.  This person says that if she tells me an idea that I have to promise not to share it with anyone or tell anyone else about it.  I say that's fine.  She tells me about an idea that I've all ready had and all ready blogged about.  

She then loses her shit and starts freaking out about it.  The worst part is she's my sister.  She just goes ballistic.  She severs all ties with me and I believe that when anyone severs ties with another human being it's hurtful.  But she severs those ties and that's fine.  The worst part is though that she accuses me of stealing her ideas.  That's nuts!

I blogged about it three months ago, told my co-workers about it last week, and ordered books in support of learning the proper technologies in order to implement it last week.  My house looks like a freaking library/laboratory (he he he :D >D ... technology is power and it's magic.  It's just so cool!)  Nonetheless I am hurt.  But more so I am sad.  My sister is becoming crazy.  She's in show business and she's becoming a crazy person, money hungry, just nuts.

I was trying to think what brought this on.  She had never programmed before.  She had never done a software project before.  Why now?  Then I thought about it.  Facebook.  Facebook had it's IPO or filed for it's IPO today.  Now it's all over the news.  She read about it and now wants to get paid from something like it.  It took Mark Zuckerberg fifteen years+ for that to come to fruition including his learning curve in high school.  It's amazing that people think it's somehow over night.  It is overnight.  It took him and his crew many nights in that lab to get there.  Yet people somehow think it's over night.  

That's the difference between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.  Silicon Valley values innovation, building things of lasting value with your own hands, and changing the world, changing the way the world operates for the better, democratizing as a principle, money as a bi-product.  And money only as a tool used to make the world a better place for a lot of people.  At the end of the day it's about people.  

Hollywood believes in fame for fame's sake, money as power over others, and just a way of existance that I don't believe in.  There are exceptions to the rule:  Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Charles, who just have something cool and meaningful to say.   But others.  Blech!  

Nonetheless this is pain.  Elon Musk described running Tesla as eating a glass sandwich everyday.  Well, this is just a glass shard.  I'll have to get used to it.  I should change this blog post to be titled, "My First Piece of Glass."