A blog about work?

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I do feel slightly blessed to have my job. It's something I take for granted alot and it's slowly but surely I'm realising that I get paid to do what I enjoy, from the comfort of my own home with my family around me.

Are the long hours of staring at a monitor a plus? Not really, but you can factor in the fact that if I like the weather in my back garden (like I have in the last few days) then I can up and leave this desk and go and sunbath and then catch up on my hours during the colder night hours.

Does that mean I can laze around and do no real work? Not at all. I have projects set with a certain time-frame and a definite urgency and quality needed. :o

Infact, I have my own quality and standard I set myself to, they are: PHP 5, Error reporting set to E_ALL (not strict mind), CSS fluid design, Object Orientated, MVC set-out and modular.

So bearing that in mind, my work requires far more attention that most programmers? For you see all of the above give out are a high bar to reach but once they've been met they knit together and provide an App thats easy to understand, update and work with.

One thing I'm particulary proud of today is Tags and "Events".

[b][u]Tags[/u][/b]
Tags are there own object, they are an id, title, number and views. Mathetically speaking number and views are added together to provide the important and use of the tag. From there we have a table called Tag_Blog. When a user adds a tag while creating a blog all sorts of double checks are made to make sure the tag is created and then linked to the blog. Why make such a robust system? Well sooner rather than later I have to impliment products, stores and product categories. Each of those needs to be taggable. So by not making tags a character field on Blog, I have unleashed the system.

[b][u]Events[/u][/b]
One particular aspect of the project I'm working on (The Wuggawoo codebase will be used) is the ability to have a facebook-esque like notifaction panel. Did your favourite user make a topic? How about an email alert, or the option to not recieve an email about it, but to view it on your update wall. Now Wuggawoo isn't a great advocate of something like this, as there are so few posts. However when you get together thousands of bargain hunters who want to share deals and product information - this is a vital piece of the puzzle. The system is robust and template based to, with extremely well planned emails sent out so the server doesn't get bogged down.

That's all for now, no replies...I mean comments, I bet ;)