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New carolinecblaker.com is in development

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

The design and implementation of this website has served me well for over 3 years, but let's face it. Standards have changed, expectations have risen, and my skills have skyrocketed. Time for the design to reflect the best of what I have to offer.

This website is my first website. As someone who builds websites every day in a high-demand environment, I have a fondness for this one that supercedes my love for my work (which I LOVE a LOT.) In the past, it has been the canvas for my development skills. If you have been visiting for more than a few years, undoubtedly you remember it being riddled with bugs, impossible to use, or just having one of those “what was she thinking?“ moments. As it turns out this problem is systemic for artists, but I’m not just an artist. I’m a professional web developer AND artist. I have the time, the

What? This is a Twitterscape?

In: Anecdotes, Career management, My Career

Did you know that the process of developing Twitterscapes yielded images that don't look like Twitterscapes? Neither did my printer, apparently.

Yesterday I sent 9 of the preliminary “Twitterscapes” off for printing for the upcoming exhibit. My printer called me three times out of what he called “confusion,“ though I read in it disbelief. My art printer (one of the best fine art printers in New Mexico,) who spends days at a time immersed in fine art, could not fathom why I wanted to print these, nor could he tell if I had sent him the correct images, or if I had just gone crazy. He may have thought he got a set of images that were corrupted.

Of course, the images I sent him don’t look like Twitterscapes, or fine art. They look

Marketing, newsletters, projects. Oh, my!

In: Career management, My Career, Self Reflection

2010 was terrific, but 2011 already has a distinction all its own.

And suddenly, as Eric Meyer eloquently put it on New Years Eve, we have passed yet another “arbitrary gregorian boundary condition.” Out with 2010, in with 2011. While I’m glad it’s over, 2010 was a revolutionary year; marriage, career independence, all in the span of two months and continuing now and into the future. God Almighty, I’m free at last.

And since 2011 is here, I shall declare that this year will not be about improvement, yearning, or gaining freedom as last year and years past have been. This year is about engagement. It’s about full-throttling on connecting with

ExpressionEngine and how I ranted for 1 hour about it

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

I am not always a superb public speaker or anxious to give away my "professional secrets," but ExpressionEngine deserves an exception. It deserves an introduction, an explanation, and time for questions like so:

On September 1, 2010 I gave a Webuquerque Presentation extolling the virtues of the content management systems I use, religiously, for client sites, ExpressionEngine. Using ExpressionEngine, I've never been able to say no to a client feature for any lack of the system's capability to handle the request, as it has enough built-in that its easy to add functionality on as a PHP programmer. Turns out I was giving a presentation to a group of hungry webbies who had been fed up with Content Management Systems of all walks mainly due to their 1) high barriers to entry and 2) their lack of support

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