What now !?

I haven’t been posting in a long while now, so I thought to write a few lines and share some things I’ve been doing:

- I visited USA, which was a big to-do on my list; I was in Philadelphia and New York… it was really impressive and I definitely want to go again !

- I took some time off and played a few games like the Tales of Monkey Island (the first 4 episodes) and Machinarium;

- I saw a few series from Dr House, which is one of my favorite TV series

- I planned a few projects at work

- I found a few ideas for different web projects and then took them apart when adding the money factor into the equation

- I plan to develop a structure and CMS over the Zend Framework, with which to easily build websites and web applications

- I plan to learn Flex and Actionscript 3

- I learned a few things about Objective C 2.0 and the Cocoa API and was preety impressed after succeeding in creating a simple application in a mere 6 hours timeframe (during one night )

- As always I want to take some certifications, like the Zend Framework Certified Engineer and maybe the Certified Mysql Developer certification, although I’m not sure about the last one since it’s more expensive at the moment and not really used in recruiting.

I guess we’ll see what happens next! I’ll keep you posted!

Starting a blog

Boy, this wasn’t easy to do…

I’ve been meaning to start a blog for a long time now, but had no idea what to write.

I am passionate about my work, which is programming (mostly in PHP).

I like databases and I’ve been using MySQL since version 4.

I enjoy the guessing-game of SEO and I try to make all my sites as search engine friendly as possible.

Recently I read a book about Adwords, saw the system in action and what benefits it can bring to a new or existing website.

Also,

I enjoy reading Science Fiction books, a few of my favorites beeing Dune by Frank Herbert and more recently Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

I started taking photos about an year ago and discovered I like it very much, as it resembles art (painting or design), which I cannot do because of my lack of drawing skills.

I describe myself as a hardware freak. I have around 17 years of meddling with computers (PCs mostly and starting this year Macs). I have owned tens of computer components, around 8 PCs, 2 laptops and 1 Macbook. One of my other future plans is to open a blog about hardware, electronics, gadgets and sorts.

I love FOOD. I enjoy cooking but right now I’ve got no time for it. Unfortunately I’ve become a fast-food addict like many others. I eat mostly preprocessed food.

Like all people I have friends. I hope that they will help and support me here. Input is always welcomed as "content is king" :D.

If you want to find out more about me you can check me out at:

LinkedIn profile - Mihai Bojin

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About Mihai Bojin

I haven’t got time right now to write a full bio, but let me just say this:

- I write code;

- I read books and blogs;

- I use stuff like gadgets and such;

- I love the web and all things unknown !

- I like discovering new things and new experiences !

UPDATE: I can officially say I am too lazy to write a full bio about me ! One of my plans for 2009 is to get less lazy !

more to come…