Unexpected power outage this morning from just after 6 until about nine o’clock, strange one as there isn’t any storm or wind happening outside so guessing it was a transformer along the line somewhere borked itself. No problem for me, just went back to bed when it appeared nothing was going to be fixed soon and woke up again when the lights came back on.

Meanwhile on the sun deck, one of the local Blue Herons has decided that the railing is going to be the day time perch for at least a little while. When Norma goes outside to feed the sea gulls it doesn’t freak out and fly away, just watches the other birds getting fed and stands around regally. With all the tourists around in the summer it is familiar with cameras and flash bulbs and allowed her to take pictures, no fear at all. It is a big bird though, with it’s prehistoric beak and eerie screech for a call not too many people would attempt to upset the thing.

Next Monday hopefully everything is working correctly and on time, especially transit as I’ve a job interview to go to on Monday! The job title is “HTML Artisan” and the description matches me really well, as do some others on the Tech Vibe web site that was discovered from a link through Craig’s List. They don’t have new listings often, but the ones that are there are higher quality imho and glad the web site was discovered as it’s already producing results for me.

This week I’ve been delving into MVC frameworks again. A good number of listings are looking for php-Smarty experience and it’s a more of a template engine than a framework, that works for me as far as my aversion to bloat is concerned. The total core files add up to less than 350KB making it a winner for smaller web sites that just need the odd dynamic functionality, while still having the majority of same functions available that larger more cumbersome MVC’s like Ruby or Eclipse have.

Like any other software suite for this sort of thing, syntax is important and you have to learn their own special function names and what they do compared to what you would think the name has them do. Except for the core files, you can pretty much make the directory structure of the application however you want and it was encouraging to be able to easily obfuscate the directory names into something not easily guessable. So far I’ve only done the home page of the hosting web site, seems fairly straight forward though like the others you have to do your own home work to get proficient at it.