Changing Times

These last few months have seen many changes happen in my life. I’ve moved away from the Apple Systems Engineer role/world and transitioned into a Web Developer role here in Perth. I’ve moved state, proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancée), and bought a house (we’re also getting a dog).

This year saw me launch a fun project that I had been working on for a few months, a database for the best podcast in the world, Stop Podcasting Yourself. The website, SpyDB, is built on Laravel, my favourite PHP framework. This is my biggest project I’ve used Laravel on, and it was a blast to see just how easy it was to make something quite functional with relatively little past experience in Laravel.

The OS X Mavericks Server articles I wrote last year have continued to be a huge hit, but unfortunately there will be no OS X Server tutorials this year. I had planned (and started writing) a OS X 10.10 Yosemite Server eBook that was going to be distributed through Leanpub, but I’m just not able to dedicate time to writing about OS X Server, especially with paying customers. It wouldn’t be fair on the buyers of an incomplete book to wait months for a potentially completed book. I’m just not that kind of guy.

The content of this website will likely change to a more Web Developer aspect, but I’m still playing around with OS X Server so no doubt I’ll blog about some issues I come across.

Many thanks for reading, I hope you have a good rest of your day.

Dan xx