Author: Brian

Another good day

Well, things went well today.   I added blogs to the  b5network, came to the rescue of some sites that were having trouble and got further into the infrastructure of b5.

I also got added to the b5 team blog listing.  That instantly takes me up to over 135 blogs linking into me.  So that’s a nice side bonus I hadn’t thought about.

Aaron has written a very nice welcome note on his blog today in The Tech Team Adds a Fourth Member :

Yesterday, I posted the announcement about Brian Layman joining the b5media tech team. We’re really excited about hiring him because we have some big plans. Brian is classified as “big guns” in my book. He’s got a lot of development experience and is one of the more active people in the WordPress developer community.

It was important that we found someone who understood the way WordPress worked and operated and how to make it dance. Unlike some competitors, we shout from the roof that we’ve drunk the WordPress kool-aid and aren’t going back. While we’ve toyed with Drupal and other software packages, we know who our daddy is and that’s WordPress.

Brian’s joining of b5media marks a redeclaration of our WordPress allegiance. It’s really great to have him on board!

I also got some details of the exciting stuff I’m going to be working on in the upcoming weeks.  Let me tell you, we’re gonna…

well actually I can’t tell ya… So you’ll just have to wait to see what kind of goodness will be coming out of the b5 in the near future.

(removed blog list as I have a better way to access this now)

Sweet Linus Benedict Turvalds, I’m working from home!

Long time readers of mine my might have had a suspicion.  You see when I have something big that I can’t talk about, I get severe writers block.  I can’t talk about what I want to talk about so I go from a one to two quality post a day period down to NOTHIN’ for three weeks!

Well this time it was VERY big!  After a 17+ year career as a Delphi programmer, I’ve started a new carreer.  Today was my first day working for b5media.  I am now one of an ever increasing number of professional making my living off WordPress, PHP and other Open Source programming. So, at the end of the day, I’m breaking the day of silence in the blogosphere with a post about joy and success.  That seems a more fitting remembrence.  Progress and fullfilment rather than silence.

You can read the official announcement here: “Brian Layman Joins Tech Team“.  It all started just over four weeks ago when I got a call from Aaron Brazell.  It was a fast whirlwind since then.  I’ll tell you all about my trip to Canada, dozen or so trashed cars, the flaming car of doom, all about b5media and other exciting goodies over the next few days.  There have been loads of firsts and progress being made on the Delphi for PHP front over the last two weeks that I’ll post about too.

For now, though, I just wanted to share the good news!

And Oh yes, I let my wife scoop the story.  She was soo excited about the chance to get a scoop!  No, Aaron, that pic wasn’t from today, but a month or so ago.  But I’m not making any promises I won’t be out there sometime…

See also: My interview with b5media