Happy Birthday Palatino Consulting!

My business turned two years old on Friday. Yay my business!

So, how’s it been?

Great.

It’s truly been a joy working for myself over the past two years. I really wish I’d done it sooner.

One thing that’s been a negative is the fact that I haven’t done any writing or speaking engagements since The Uncertain Web was released. It’s a bummer, but that’s the way it’s gone. I’ve been busy with paid work and, to be honest, I was a bit burned out from writing three books in three years, so a long break has been good for me.

I’ve actually got a pretty big backlog of ideas to go through. There’s been a lot of bullshit flowing through front end development over the past couple of years and I have “big thoughts” on all of it. Considering how busy I’ve been so far in 2016, I doubt that I’ll get a change to write about it, but if I do, I promise I’ll make you laugh.

I’ve also had the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies over the past couple of years, so I have opinions (real, working opinions) on just about everything out there right now. That’s fun and would be fun to share.

We’ll see.

(Don’t hold your breath, though!)

One thing that I have kept up with is open source work. I haven’t been a demon or anything, but I have been knocking off some work pretty consistently over this year especially. That’s always fun.

One thing I should mention is that I occasionally need some development help. I’m especially interested in WordPress, Angular and pure HTML+CSS freelancers. Shoot me an email if that sounds like you.

Current Status: For Hire

My current long-term consulting gig is ending at the end of June and, being a fan of managing uncertainty (did you see how I did that?) I’m trying to line something up for the summer sooner rather than later. I’m sure I’ll find something (I’ve got recruiters knocking down my door), but I’m also interested in finding something that will be fun and/or challenging so I’m making a concerted effort to let the world know.

If you’re interested you can check out the small site for my consulting business

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This is what I do

  • Front End Architecture
  • Training
  • Front end development, with a focus on the following:
    • General JavaScript and jQuery development
    • AngularJS applications and components
    • RWD (Responsive web design) development
    • Mobile web sites and applications
    • Web performance consulting
    • Pixel perfect CSS layouts
  • Process and standards development

Drop me a line if you’re interested