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Free-time Development

For those of you who read my blog consistently, it's probably readily apparent that I've been looking for things outside of the work to consume my free time. In the past I found that games, especially World of Warcraft, did a good job doing that. I've been WoW free for like a year and feel great about it and now consumed by my original lover: first-person shooters. But that's not very productive... so I'm consuming my free time with some free-time development

I was going to write out a huge post of what I'm doing, but I guess the easiest thing to do is list them out. How efficient of me.

  • Revitalization of Digital Paintball HL2 mod: A programmer.
  • Summer Book Crusade: Have learned Java, brushed up on C++, working on Objective-C.
  • Zend Framework: Proposal development, trying to get on a few component bug squisher armies.
  • ZFComponents.com: Finalizing programming, soon will do design and build-out.

I'm pretty much just putting my feelers out there for things that I don't do during the day. For example, I went home one day a few weeks ago and have been trying to implement the various genetic algorithms to our estimates to generate more accurate predictive project/resource scheduling. Sure, that's work but I wasn't told to do it.

What I need is someone to find this blog post and say, "Hey. I want you to work with me on this open source project." I'm getting more and more giddy about the open-source movement and would just like to pour what I've got into it.

Oh and uh... I'm trying to cook more (culinary development). That's all.

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Ywk1009 (not verified) says:

Pievendorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
You are dearly missed.

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rob Zienert

I was blessed with being born into a tech-savvy family: my dad being a vehicle engineer at Ford and my mom a database programmer — it only made sense that I put my genetic inheritance to good use, so here I am. Whether it be application architecture, code reviews, or any flavor of voodoo-techno-whizbang; its my job to make sure your application or web site functions technically.

Outside of the office, I have the pleasure of serving on the Program Advisory Committee for Full Sail University’s Web Design and Development Bachelor Program. But alas, not all I do is work, oh-no. I’m super passionate about fast, sexy cars (and bikes), painting, coffee, watching the History channel, and playing paintball. I also play a lot of Modern Warfare 2 on XBox (Gamertag: Pievendor).

Oh! How could I forget: My nickname around town is RZA, like the rapper, because I’m so convincingly street.

my Favorites

Paintball

Used to fly around the nation to shoot people. (Anyone need a D2 player?)

Painting

I might be a programmer by day, but I love digital painting--even if its always sad and emotive.

Radiohead

Constantly ridiculed by my fellow co-workers for how much I love Radiohead... but no one can touch them.

my Last·fm

  • Meridional
  • Inception
  • Kurr
  • The Five Ghosts

my Flickr

  • Happy Birthday Justin!!
  • Photo 5
  • Foosball Fights
  • Foosball Fights