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Where you been?
Posted by Technocrat | Posted in Technocrat | Posted on 25-01-2010
Well that’s been a complicated question lately.
First I would like to apologize to anyone that hasn’t been able to get a hold of me. Though I have been around and try to answer all the questions and messages I get, I have been told I haven’t been really reachable. To anyone that feels that way I am truly sorry about that.
Both my personal and professional life has been more hectic than usual.
Personal
Late in 2008 my wife became pregnant with our first child. The initial happiness was short lived as 13 weeks into it she had a miscarriage. Obviously this was devastating to both of us. It took a lot of time to work it out and get through it as I am sure you can imagine.
Then in the middle of last year she became pregnant again. If you are reading this and have a child you know what the pregnancy is like, especially the first one. Lots of appointments, classes, talking, reading, etc. Most of my time when I am home has been taken up by that.
We are now in the final days of the count down. She (it’s a girl) is due in February. As I have been told and read in books my life for the next few months is going to be pretty full taking care of our new baby. *gulp!*
So my time at home is limited and soon to be much worse.
Professional
I was promoted a few years back at my day job. When I originally started I was given little jobs. As my company soon found out I was a wiz at figuring out things (go figure). Soon they started calling me the rabbit man, because they would give me vague things they wanted to do and want me to pull a rabbit out of a hat (I prefer to say my ass). In the last two years the rabbits have been huge. I have saved them probably close to a million dollars now in in-house development and projects.
But the bottom line is that my day job has been really busy as well. This is where in the past I would spent much of my day working on the many side projects.
BUT!?
Some of you are on my steam and xbox account and have said I see you playing. Well (don’t tell steam) I let my brother play on my steam account. He is lots of time the one playing.
What about?
Nuke-Evolution? As I have said a number of times I am not going to continue to work on this. Someone pointed out a while ago that it is probably time to start closing the site down and farming people to the people that are going to continue to carry on the project. That has always been my intention and I think that time for that has come.
phpBB-Evolution? That’s a bit more complicated. I am going to address that on the site it’s self.
phpInputValidator? I am still working on this project. It’s moving forward. v2 is almost complete. I am very excited about this new release. It will launch with it’s own website. I am not sure when but very soon.
End
I would like to end by thanking everyone that has worked on, helped with, or used anything I have had the privilege of being a part of.
Hey Tec,
a child is a wonderful thing …
I got divorced in 1996 when my boy was 3 years old. The next years until he came to school, he was more time with me than with his mother.
With coming to school, there was a timing problem between my business and his holidays. More – his mother found a new boy friend who wasn’t happy with me (understandable as they have to leave my house when I lost my company and this house where they lived in without any costs).
Last week I saw my soon again after 5 years without direct contact to him. He’s now 16ten.
So let’s say from a father who has some experience with troubleshooting: Take as much time as you can for your daughter and your wife.
As you wrote about closing down Nuke-Evolution – this statement now is 2 month old – and there is no contact.
Xtreme and we are waiting you come back for a while to clear up the things you laid down.
Wish you all the best – and be shure, I will integrate the validator into Evo 2.2.0 !!
Greetings
Reo
Posted on: 23/Mar/2010@12:12 pm