It’s almost 2017 and it’s time to start over again. \u00a0I made my last profile site in 2010 and I stuck with my blog for a little bit, but I made it too hard to update and stopped posting after awhile. \u00a0I thought it would be easy enough, but that was before I was married and had two kids!<\/p>\n
I’ve also always gone back and forth on if I should I have a professional site, a personal site or a mixture of both. \u00a0This time around, I’ve decided to keep my main site career focused and my blog will mostly be a place to log some of the things I’ve made with some personal things sprinkled in here and there.<\/p>\n
I try to work on personal projects to learn new things and improve my technical skills. \u00a0I originally had plans to write a whole blog platform from the ground up. \u00a0Since I’ve been working the Microsoft stack lately, I thought I would design a SQL Server database and use ASP.Net MVC to build an administration interface and front-end.<\/p>\n
However, I had some new ideas to work on other projects that will take what little free time I have to learn more new stuff, so I had to revise this plan. \u00a0My new site is pure HTML and Javascript and I decided to use WordPress for my blog. \u00a0But instead of just modifying a theme, I decided to use the WordPress REST API (Version 2, currently beta 15). \u00a0I will write some details when it’s all complete, but for the most part, my blog is a single html page that does AJAX calls to get JSON data and I use jQuery to iterate the data and display the content.<\/p>\n
I’m going to finish up my site, hopefully add some new content and backfill my blog with my old posts. \u00a0We’ll see how this version goes but I feel pretty optimistic this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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