UCSB: day 1
comments | Posted in ucsb on Tuesday, August 21 2007 04:46:00 GMT
Today was my first day at my new position at UCSB. I was introduced to an awesome department with many talented individuals. I hope to add my talent into the melting pot and bring their user experience to a new level.
I had many thoughts throughout the day, it went something like this:
- Shiny iMac
- specs: 2.16 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, ~250GB HHD, 24inch monitor (i think ... or 20?), Geforce 7300 MX w/256Ram
- evil Apple Key of Doom ... why do you spite me!??!
- why does my mouse scroll so sloooww!?!
- why does Ctrl+Home/End not goto the EOL in Camino/FF navigation bar. what gives??
- Ctrl+F5 does not refresh Firefox ... it spawns Stephen Hawkin's evil twin brother to tell me what menu item I just selected in the open application ... Ctrl+F5 returns the twin to heck :D
- BBEdit is notsogreat and Emacs in all blue is kind of an eyesore. TextMate is ok and I may slowly switch from jEdit to TextMate.
- Camino (?) may be nice, but nothing can beat Firefox+Firebug for web program debugging.
- walking to the Parking Services department was a "bad idea". On the upside I met the friendly people at the Public Safety building on the faaarr faaaarr end of the campus, and also the Transportation Office. Why is the Parking Services office building hidden from all angles of view?? ... That was not a fun ~1 hour of walking :'(
- initial fiddlings with MooTools today. Useful so far :D
- I am familiar with many tools and technologies for the position atm: Navicat, MySQL, PHP, Drupal.
- must brush up on CSS since I dont claim to be a designer but rather a programmer. But with a bit of effort I'm sure I can become proficient in designing (hopefully with web 2.0 Div goodness)
I'm sure tommorow will be really fun and I'm gonna jump into my new CSS books asap!