Seasons change - Flickr account

It's fall. Yeah, it's that time of year... when the season changes, daylight saving time ends, and I often reflect on my life.

I see it's been a while since I blogged. Life's busy and I'm sure we can all make excuses. I want to make better use of my blog and I think what was troubling me, was the scope of it. I had a narrow topic, and I think if I change that, I can see where this goes.

I love spending time behind the camera, capturing what I see. I recently joined Flickr. Here's a link to my account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/106380613@N05/

This photo was taken at the Parry Sound Marina. This bridge was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1908. This trestle spans 1695 feet long and is 105 feet in height. It is one of the oldest and longest trestles in Canada. We were down at the marina, checking things out when this train came by. It was great to capture it.

my first PHP website

For the past four weeks, I've been learning PHP. This week, I've been working on designing a website that pulls its content from a database and builds the page. At this time, I have a catalogue of my photocards built and I have plans on expanding it into a full site. Should be fun!

Each person in my class is working on something unique. We are presenting our designs to the class on Thursday. I can't wait to see what everyone has been up to!

Hello Java

I wrote my first Java program today--Hello World! Looking forward to the next 4 weeks of Java.

Learning database design

We've been taking database design for the past six weeks and I've found it very interesting. Who knew that Notepad++ can be used for creating databases, creating tables, filling with content, and running queries?? Very cool!

graphic design inspiration blog

I love this blog:

http://visualgraphic.tumblr.com/archive

HTML and CSS - a continuation

We've been working on applying our base knowledge of html and css this week. I'm very excited to have built and posted a webpage.

http://www.mgardiner.x10.mx/portfolio/

I'm working on rebuilding a portfolio site and I will post that when it's ready.

The amazing power of LinkedIn

I think I've been on LinkedIn for about two years now.

This week, I was very excited to reconnect with an elementary school classmate who moved away--around Grade 5, if I remember correctly. After all these years, I thought it was pretty cool to reconnect. More importantly, I was able to hook him up with someone I know who can offer assistance to his new company that he's starting up.

That's the amazing power of LinkedIn!!

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A while ago, I put an add-on from Behance on my LinkedIn profile which I think is a great feature. It's a handy on-line portfolio for creatives.

I've posted a new project:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Calendar-2012/3107703

More to follow!