Tag Archive for 'management'

Josh Kim dot Org: A New Direction

Published
by
Josh Kim
on January 29, 2008
in Site News
. Comments

I don’t know if you’ve visited the site in the last week or so (which is perfectly fine with me, I love feeds), but I’ve been experimenting with different themes, looking at different plug-ins, and learning about the Wordpress structure.

I’ve finally ended up with K2 for the theme. The less upkeep I have to do in between versions, the better, and K2 helps with a lot of the administration. Also, it comes with a lot of things built in, like a beautiful archive page system, as well as some ajax components. There are some flaws (like the ajax search sometimes doesn’t do anything), but I’m looking to fix those myself, and maybe even submit the patches.

So What Is This Blog About Now?

As time passes, I’ve realized that this blog needs to become a lot less personal, but at the same time not so professional. And so, the subtitle has changed to include “Web Development & Technology”. This covers pretty much everything I would talk about… from something frivolous (I’m almost to 5K groupies with Guitar Hero 3… So close) to something more important (my company is picking up steam, and I’m having a great time managing/developing).

I’m going to have to start retagging some things, as well as moving some posts here and there to streamline the experience. I’m well on my way to bringing some of my older posts, just to keep public because they were once public. It’s a nice historical backlog of how stupid I was, and it’ll keep me in check.

The personal stuff, well, I think they might make a comeback somewhere else. Just not here. I’ll post not short posts on the links of interest, but more thought-out articles.

Upcoming Post Topics

  • The Status of Status
  • FeedSt: The Death of a Project
  • Desktop vs Hybrid vs Web Applications
  • Prism: The Future of Applications?
  • MAMP + Whatever: Why Not Installable Web Applications?
  • Polling on the Internet

I hope to post on about half of these in the upcoming week. We’ll see…

The proper motivation?

Published
by
Josh Kim
on February 10, 2007
in Personal
. Comments

I guess it took a good friend from back way back when… WAYYY back when I was a freshman in college to push me into “code mode”. [Insert Age Joke Here, for all you freshmen that are reading this...] Derek Remund, a totally cool and amazing guy that God placed into my life, just as I was beginning to realize what computers were all about.

He’s taking this sweet class called Programming Studio, a class I would have dearly enjoyed. You see, my education at UIUC comprised of quite a bit of theory, and very little hands-on-ness. I mean, there are benefits for being taught hard-core theory, but there’s nothing like actually putting code to compiler (in my case, code to browser incompatibility insanity).

I had the pleasure of talking with him on the intricacies of web mashups. What little knowledge I had of JSON and REST and other subjects to do with cross-site scripting methodologies, I tried to pass on to him.

Of course, this was no one way street in terms of information exchange. I keep looking at Derek, and am amazed at how deeply he understands the code. He is the closest thing I have to a hacker: I’m so thankful to have a friend that can give me this kind of point of view on the subject.

We jokingly talked about how a couple years from now, we’d be talking about this past Thursday night, when wearing our maroon hoodies we came up with the idea for the next big thing. We didn’t, but I’m still searching.

Whatever we talked about, whatever we joked about… it seemed like it was towards something. I definitely need to find many more friends like this… not in separate geographic locations (like Texas and Ohio), but all in the same place. Well… at least, leverage technology (uh oh… Josh is using the word “leverage”) so that we could all sit down and talk about these issues. Maybe I’m wanting too much… can’t have all my friends work together.

Manager JK is slowly being cultivated, spouting off buzzwords and management techniques like no other. Uh oh… time to go learn some more Ruby to stave it off.