If you've been reading any of my blogs you know how rough of a time I've been having the last 2 years. All this time I've been dreaming of what I would do for a professional online portfolio if I ever had the chance to make one. Well here it is, I've finally *started* to work on it. I'm really proud of it so far and its just starting to come together. The site itself is up to about 200mb and I've got about 3gigs planned for it, maybe more. So there will be scads of example work and projects that I've been involved with, plus gords of personal photos stories, adventures, and other pieces of history from my life.

You can watch it take shape over the months here:

http://SethEden.com

I'm working to switch servers and hopefully soon I'll have the site at a stronger level. There is LOTS of stuff to post! And plenty of new graphics to develop for the site. So it may look simple now but please just be patient, it all takes time.

On a more pressing note, I did finally get the major initial portions of my FabLab project done at FabCon today! I've been making so much progress lately that I'm having a hard time getting my boss to keep up with my requests for meetings, and development support. I finally had to just ask for a digital camera so I could go out and take photos of some of the panels for texture mapping on the virtual wall panel objects. We have a sample wall out by the parking lot. So I'll probably go take photos of that tomarrow, and work to build a larger library of materials in my application.

My program also needs a great deal of testing, I've done all the testing I can do within a normal development life cycle. At this point it needs to be tested by someone else who didn't develop it. As far as I can tell it's running perfectly, but this is the most complex piece of software that I've ever made in my life by a long shot! And I don't know what it's going to do when different people start using it, or if those people are going to have problems learning the program.

I suppose I'll need to write up some documentation and help files at some point. That will be fun. I'm going to ask my boss if I can take screen shots of the application and post them on my web site. I may also ask if I can post some snippets of code.

I know the program itself has some pretty bad execution level ineffeciences, but my main concern is that it functions. Going back and weeding out the ineffecient code would take a lot longer! I'll only do it if they need it to run faster...which they may in certain circumstances.

I may also need to develop a progress bar for some of the places where the program is running slow so the user will know that something is happening.

Anyways just waiting for my parents to get back from Africa now. I hope they are safe!

Cheers & Enjoy the new site.

Seth