Silent Storms

This update has been a long time com­ing, too long, but it’s finally almost done. Before I release it though, I would really like to get some peo­ple to beta test it and get some feedback.

TCG Man­ager 2.0 cur­rently has these fea­tures:
– Affil­i­ates man­age­ment¹
– Card man­age­ment
– Mem­ber man­age­ment
– Card randomizer

I’m still work­ing on adding:
– Updates log with com­ments
– Games management

I will set up a feed­back site for the beta test­ing, but would like you to:
– install TCG Man­ager 2.0 on your own server (because I really want to make sure it works every­where)
– OR I will give you access to the test install on my server if you can’t do a test install on your server
– test every­thing and try to break things
– give feed­back on prob­lems you come across and just gen­eral feed­back on the script and features

If you are inter­ested in beta test­ing, let me know by leav­ing a com­ment and I will e-mail you once I’m ready to start beta test­ing. You don’t have to pub­licly state your email address in the com­ment itself, I can see it if you just put it in the email field and say “I would like to beta test” or any­thing else in the comment.

Also, if you think I should add some other fea­ture, please let me know what it is that you’re missing!

1. I noticed there’s prob­lems with the images when updat­ing an affil­i­ate. This is fixed in 2.0. [↩]

Whoops, has it been THAT long? Where has the time gone?

Study­ing and work
I grad­u­ated from law school in August 2011. I spent a lot of time try­ing to find a job. In the cur­rent econ­omy, I wasn’t able to find the job I had been work­ing towards with my degree. I did find a job at a law firm that is in the right field, but the job itself is nowhere near the level of my degree. When I signed the con­tract, every­one thought it would be pos­si­ble for me to get a job on the right level later on. Just a few months in, it doesn’t look like that’s going to hap­pen any­time soon.

Look­ing around for jobs again, there’s still noth­ing to be found. There are some jobs in related fields, but I would need to take some extra courses and even then there’s only a few jobs to be found and a lot of peo­ple apply­ing. Then I started think­ing, is this even really what I like to do?

I could take extra courses to pos­si­bly get a job that I’m not imme­di­ately excited about, and even if I was able to get the job I have been work­ing towards with my degree, I started doubt­ing I would want to do that for the rest of my life.

So what then, would I really like to do? Enrolling in a new study, it’s just not finan­cially pos­si­ble for me. Or so I thought. I’ve found a long-distance learn­ing pro­gram on Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Mul­ti­me­dia Design and have decided that’s what I want to do.
About one and a half year ago, I thought I wouldn’t like design­ing for oth­ers on a reg­u­lar basis, but really, I love design & cod­ing and would absolutely love to be able to learn more about it, do it on a daily basis and get paid for it!

Blog­ging
It’s been way over a year since I last posted any­thing here. I have done some work on TCG Man­ager, but it’s been on the back­burner a while. I do plan to pick it up again and hope­fully release it with its new fea­tures — updates log and card man­ager — within the next few months. Well, really, I hope to release it sooner, but I know I’ve said that before and can’t promise a release date just yet.

Two weeks ago, I also started a new blog to share my expe­ri­ences with eat­ing dis­or­ders, body image, per­sonal fash­ion and food. Through shar­ing my expe­ri­ences, I hope to be able to help other women to feel great about them­selves. It can be found at TooMuchCandy.org.

That’s what I’ve been up to dur­ing this time. So, hi again?

I had huge plans for Silent Storms when I re-opened it, but then I got so busy, mainly with uni-related stuff now that I’m in the very last few months of my stud­ies. I have still been play­ing around with graph­ics a bit, and will work on writ­ing more tuto­ri­als when I can. For now, I just wanted to share some awe­some typography-related sites.

I Love Typog­ra­phy
For every­thing you could ever want to know about fonts and typog­ra­phy, from ter­mi­nol­ogy to choos­ing type.

Type­In­spire
Lovely works of art con­sist­ing of text!

Typog­ra­phy Daily
For a daily dose of typo­graphic inspiration.