Dear readers, its been a while since I’ve bored you with tales of software and other development… so here I am to ruin your day again. Actually, this is more of an apology for the lack of site updates in the last few weeks. On that note, we do have some really fun updates planned out for the site in both the short term and the long term. They are:
- Easier navigation to the comic
- Landing home page is more comic centered and less of a blog home page
- Get rid of that stupid modal that shows up when you click on the pages in the chapter viewer
- General readability enhancements, the fonts are kind of light at times.
Now for the excuse of why I have been slacking. At work (the day job that pays for this lovely project… don’t you feel sorry for me? If you do go buy stuff at Amazon using our link 
)… as I was saying, at work they are a Gold Level National Microsoft Certified Partner, and they require us to “progress” down certification paths and to constantly learn new stuff.
The constantly learning new stuff part isn’t new for me, that’s what you have to do when you work in web development like I have for the last 7 years… but certifications, those are another can of worms. So anyways, I am pleased to announce that I am a Microsoft Certified Professional now, specifically in HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript… I know, keep applauding… I’ll wait.
So what does that mean? Really jack diddly to be truthful, the exam was supposed to test all those new technologies and it really focused on the same old HTML, CSS and Javascript we’ve all been doing for years. In fact it felt horribly dated since it had a lot of reference to plain old Javascript functions that nobody has used in the past forever since jQuery, Mojo, or Prototype came into play. So yeah, I’m not overly impressed with the whole certification concept just yet. It has potential and I’m not giving up on it yet (especially since my employer is a Microsoft partner and values certs highly) but I begin to see why the guys here who have been working on certs for a while just don’t seem to care about them anymore.
Anywho, that’s it for the day, time to dig into the code of the site and get this thing working nicer.