Josh Kim dot Org

This is Josh Kim’s Brain. Not on C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, but just… high on life. I feel liberated and able to focus again. Not sure how long this burst is going to last, but let’s hope it keeps up this way for at least the last of the month when I bust out my monthly reviews.

These bullet points should really each be a post each, but seeing how things are getting quite crazy over here… I might have to just condense it into this smattering of blah.

• LLC/Corp: More research is needed. It’s not as simple as the three I’ve learned in school before (Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, or Corporation). Not only that there are more than the three, but the tax ramifications are quite great depending on where I choose to incorporate. (Sure, Delaware/Nevada is great, but if I have to pay for an agent yearly… hmm…)

Lots to ponder, but it looks like HanMeta, Inc. is the name I might be going with. At least I’ll have a company to start strategizing the service I’m going to be releasing.

No, JKorp will not be returning. Ever.

All in all, I’m leaning towards LLC, but this isn’t too good for the buyout from Google/Yahoo… Meh. When Max Levchin (Co-founder, CTO, PayPal) stopped by UIUC, I remember him specifically saying C Corp in Delaware is the best for any Internet-based startup… but what does he know? Doing some research… companies like Automattic and 37signals are LLC’s… Like these companies, I want to keep the company growing, and not start off gunning for an IPO/buyout exit strategy.

Alas, I’m still excited even thinking about the possibility that that might happen. Wow.

• Idea and Implementation: I’m almost set on the first project idea I’ve had in… oh… 5 years. I’m still trying to figure out the 15 second version of the sales pitch, but I’m working on that. Tonight, I’ll be meeting up with a potential “partner” (not sure how much he wants to be a part of the project…) of mine, Derek Remund. We’ll see how this meeting goes. I need more feedback, though… and I will be asking for them when I publish the partial business plan (or… even the full one…) online.

In terms of implementation, I’m looking at Ruby on Rails for the back-end scripting. I’ll be posting as to why I’m going to be choosing this over PHP or Python or… .NET.

This could be my first business expense (tax write-off, here I come!), but I might be looking to purchase about $200 in books… The Pragmatic Programmers (Hey look, they’re an LLC, too!) have some great books… From them, I’m thinking about purchasing these books. I really do want to get the pdf version, too… so I don’t have to look silly carrying around a thick stack of books wherever I go.

• Textmate: Text editor of choice for all Ruby programmers… but I wonder if there’s anything useful in this book. I hope to go to a bookstore and really see if it’s worth getting.

• Programming Ruby: The 1st edition is available here, but it seems like there’s quite a bit of change to the 2nd edition of the book. And heck, it’s a reference book… reference books are always nice to have around.

• Agile Web Development with Rails: This one’s probably a keeper, cuz it’s written by the guys that invented the thing.

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master: Looks like it could be a great book on software development in general. I think I have to pick this one up and Code Complete (but Derek has a copy… huzzah).

• Learn out to spell “received”: Received, received, received, received. Oh my goodness… I screwed every single time I typed that word out just now… ugh.

• Philippians: Only three full weeks left. I think I have about half of it left. It’s going well, and it’s helping me immensely. I think I’m going to tackle another book afterwards… But… maybe not like as a whole chunk… maybe chapter by chapter? Weekly? Hmm… lot’s to think about here.

• Work/Freelancing: Let me step you through what I have to do this week.

• Implement authentication in a custom CMS through Active Directory. In freaking Coldfusion. Shoot me now.

• Create new template for the new students at Human Resource Education Online. Kinda in Coldfusion, but mostly just dealing with CSS/xhtml. Meh, just shoot my toes.

• Fix bugs in an open source project, Moodle… and keep up with the Moodle development forums.

• Finalize subversion documentation for other developers at Office of Education Technology, Network Applications Group.

• Install Drupal and customize for jmbarrie.net

• Blog: I need to reorganize the categories. Tonight is the first and last night this week I’ll be able to even work on pimping out the blog. I’m going to go through some of the old posts and do some analysis on what the categories should be, and start optimizing the content to be accessible by the right people.

I’ve decided to keep JoshKim.org as a single entity, and not break it up into like… 8 blogs. I realized that I really do enjoy… too many things. If it isn’t Korean culture (heck, that could be split into three: music, dramas, and movies) or health tips (lifting, dieting, even cooking…) or Apple products or video games (actual games reviews and the industry commentary) or… blah blah blah. There are just too many things I want to cover, it seems… and to split them up into separate domains… would be kinda crazy.

Instead, I’m going to be looking for a visualization system in which each article would be a node in a pretty 2 dimensional graph. Or not… I’m still working on how this color wheel-esque category system will work: It’s only on paper, as of now.

In terms of a new design, I feel like I have to figure out the content before I move onto this abstract stage. I have a feeling I know what colors I want to use, at least… blue and red has always been my favorite, and greyscale is always fun.

Okay, I think that pretty much sums up what had been going on in my brain since 3 PM. Tonight, I’ll be… very very busy in trying to fix things up. I really hope Alex updates to 2.1.2…