Online registration starts May 15th! Team Turtle will be rolling October 6th bright and early and hopefully finishing before the sun sets and the support teams leave...
http://www.seagullcentury.org/
**If you are going to go, beware that the good hotels have already been booked! **
For this years riding I'm leaning towards the Trek 7.3 FX 22.5", it's a bit pricey.. but I have a feeling it's the bike that could keep me rolling for quite a few thousand miles.
I am a creative web designer / developer. What does that mean? I have a degree in Graphic Design, so I understand the use of typography, color and space in creating my designs. I also code in PHP, Coldfusion, Javascript, HTML (4 - XHTML - 5), CSS, Actionscript, etc..
Basically, I can create a design and know how to effectively accomplish that vision in code. I build lightweight sites that make use of CSS whenever possible in the place of image files without sacrificing the design. I can also write the SQL stored procedures to get information from your database and the php or coldfusion to display it within the cross browser compliant html and css website that I have designed.
That is what a creative web designer / developer is.
When I started with this project, my aim was to modernize the site, reorganize the content and give it a new robust back-end. I started doing research on USAMRAA and what the purpose of the activity was. Their main purpose is to process contracts for the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM). Definitely and organization that deserved a better website in my mind. Of the twenty or so designs I came up with for the site, I narrowed it down to three that I presented the client with. The finished site is a combination of the elements of two of those designs.
click the image to read the full article on Behance.net
After reading some of the other stories of how people got started in Coldfusion, I decided to add my own story to the mix.
At the beginning of 2008, I was ending a freelance contract Joomla/PHP development job with DSA Consulting in Sacramento, CA. On top of that I had moved back to Maryland (my home state) after 8 years in Sacramento. As my contract was winding down I was looking for work locally and my dear sweet wife saw a job posting on Craigslist for a Web Developer position about 15 minutes from our place. I read the post and was skeptical, since it mentioned Coldfusion and I had never used it before. However, my wife with the utmost confidence in my skills pushed me to apply for the position.
I sent in my resume and a small cover letter and received a positive reply and setup a phone interview. I explained that I definitely had not ever used Coldfusion, but I also explained I was willing to try. So after a face to face interview I was hired. I started working in Coldfusion in early April 2008, by August I had created a Coldfusion based content management system (modeled on Joomla) to run their intranet.
I'm still working there today and I'm still using Coldfusion everyday, it definitely makes developing and maintaining 6 different websites much easier.
Hello there, my name is Ron Rattie. I am a creative web developer. What does that mean? I have a degree in Graphic Design, so I understand the use of typography, color and space in creating my designs. I also code in PHP, Coldfusion, Javascript, HTML (4 – XHTML – 5), CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Actionscript, etc.. Here are the names of some of my past clients:
