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[exatron]

The final presentation for my project was today, and it went well.

I'll have a bit of downtime while the contract for the next phase (refining some of the criteria a bit more, creating a release plan, and building the production version) is negotiated, but my company definitely wants to leverage my knowledge. In the meantime, I'm going to try improving my web development skills a bit more. The prototype I built was hand-coded because I don't trust most of the editors out there to produce standards-compliant code, and I need to work a bit more with dynamically generated code.

This also means I have time to turn to other creative activities since I won't be driving an hour each way for work. Now that I think about it, I may have to move closer to the client if the project is scheduled to last for a while.

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[nekura-ca.livejournal.com]

Congrats, it's good that they liked your work so much that they want you back.

Having a job that has definite starts and finishes to projects, rather then just continually editing, and maintaining the code must be really nice. Downtime's always good.

I never trust HTML editor programs. When it produces files that are six times as long ones I enter manually. When a single line has three lines of intro font information, and three more lines of trailing font info, it's a bit excessive, I don't want to know how they'd bloat real scripting code.

Creativity time's good, I really need to find more of it myself. Have fun.

Speaking of creativity, I was wondering if you could recommend some good/free imaging software. I've got an idea I want to try animating. I usually make a bunch of .BMP's, and then cram them into a .GIF, but that gets tedious at times. Plus the program I use to make the .GIF's is a demo, so it randomly puts water marks in. Thanks.

[exatron.livejournal.com]

Thanks. They also want me back because I was the only developer for the prototype and it's pointless to reinvent the wheel for a lot of this stuff.

In a way, that's an advantage to being a contractor. I'm scheduled to be on a project for a certain amount of time and then I move on.

That's exactly what I hate about most HTML editors, along with they way a lot of them don't produce valid HTML.

It should be fun once I spend a day or two just letting the stress drain out of me.

I use the GIMP for animating. It requires a bit of extra setup on Windows, but it's pretty nice. I also use Inkscape, a vector graphics program, for making stuff like most of my icons.