Congratulations Steve! It's always nice to finish a project and realize how much you've learned along the way. I only glanced at the site, but your description sounds like you really jumpstarted your client's interaction with the web.
Regardless of any technical stuff we might discuss, the most important thing is that you've made your client happy, more efficient, and hopefully more successful. /alex On 10/9/07, Steve Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow, I feel like I just gave birth. > > So there's certainly some bugs left which I'm tweaking out, but I've > finally delivered not only my first web application -- but also a > jQuery powered one (using the lovely Code Igniter as my backend)! > > A little background and some words of inspiration. On resume, I'm a > systems administrator / network engineer. I was recently approached by > an individual I went to highschool with that just remembers me being a > typical computer geek and asked me if I can program. I told him I'm up > for any challenge and alas the following was born: > > http://www.f1autoimports.com > > I've always had a background in programming with my CS education and > ofcourse, writing automated scripts in any systems/network environment > I've been thrown at, mostly perl/bash based. > > Let me tell you, never have I had more fun before, despite all the > cross browser frustrations when writing front-end code, than doing web > development. I'm slowly switching my career to doing development full > time and hoping I have the opportunity to code more sites. The design > here has been mostly put together by a colleague of mine -- I did all > of the javascript/PHP/database design, he did 90% of the CSS/HTML, I > did the other 10%. > > Most of the "juice" for this site is in the administrative lounge. For > obvious reasons I can't deliver f1auto's, but I do have a > demonstration site up anyone can login to and have fun with at: > > http://devel.phpgeek.org/console > login: admin > pass: f1auto > > There's a mixture of jQuery+ExtJS objects floating around the site. > This thing also pushes all of this companies inventory AUTOMAGICALLY > every morning through a cron job to autotrader.com and cars.com. They > no longer have to put in their inventory manually! > > I plan on writing an eBay extension soon as well using their API. > > Wow, there's still a lot of room for improvement. But I'm excited as > hell. Nothing like getting paid to do what you love. I can't wait to > be doing this full time. > > Leave some love! :-) If you've got hate, leave it also, it'll give me > more inspiration to work harder on bug fixes and my next project. :-) > > -- Steve Finkelstein > zuez on EFnet / FreeNode IRC >
