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First Week at The Digital Ranch

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My first week here at “The Ranch” (as I will refer to it from now on) has been a good one. I’m excited to be working with ASP.Net again, but I won’t soon be forgetting my deep roots in PHP.

I’ve been working all week on a re-skin of the back-end on one of our products called “Site Manager”. As you couldn’t probably guess by the name, Site Manager is a CMS system. I’ve enjoyed working on the re-skinning project because it’s given me a chance to learn the in’s and out’s of Site Manager.

Just to get you, my readers, a little more familiar with where I work I’ll give you a quick list of the tools I use here:

  • Visual Studio 2010, Ultimate Edition
  • Visual Source Safe / Team Foundation Server (a mix of both)
  • Microsoft Office (of course)
  • Notepad++ (yep, still using it for quick edits, javascript, and other little things)
  • Chrome / IE (browsers)

And here’s my desk:My Desk

Well, that’s about it for today. Be looking forward to more programming-related (don’t worry, I’m still going to do PHP) articles!

New Job!

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I’ve been keeping this one under my hat until after my background check passed (not that I was worried, just didn’t want to jinx it), but I got a new job!

Some of you might be asking yourselves “But Aaron! I thought you had a great job with Ivinex?”. Well the answer is this: I do, but the time just came for me to move on. Ivinex is awesome and I will always cherish the time I spent here, not to mention the things I learned. But, I can’t stay at one job forever…or could I? No, no I can’t.

Well, my new job is for a company called “The Digital Ranch“. They do Web Design / Development, as well as hosting / co-location. I’ll be doing a lot of ASP.Net (C#) stuff again, which I’m looking forward to. I kinda missed that world.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to be leaving PHP / MySQL behind. I’m going to always be building stuff and chances are (if it’s for myself) it will be in PHP.