Relaunch

by baxter on Friday, 11th April 2008 at 22:36 4 comments

Welcome to the new and improved EndOfLevelBoss!

Nine months ago I decided to stop blogging, thanks to a combination of frustrations with WordPress, the end of my yearly web-hosting contract, and my general lack of writing ability. In that time I’ve started reading a lot of excellent blogs, such as raganwald and Coding Horror, to name just a couple.

Thanks to some of these blogs, and the books their authors have recommended, I feel as though my passion for software has been rekindled, or perhaps, more accurately, it has been kindled; I feel more passionate about developing good, relevant software than I ever have, and it’s a great feeling.

NotebooksIt wasn’t just good blogs that persuaded me to relaunch this site, though, it was also the incessant nagging of many of my friends, most notably mope. Thanks dude (even if you don’t like this design as much as the previous one).

The theme of this design is “hand-drawn”. I tend to sketch out layouts and ideas before I implement them, and while sketching out my thoughts for a new design I realised that I spend most of my time scribbling in notebooks. It seemed to make sense to have a website that matched my scribblings!

It’s a work in progress, but let me know what you think of it. Even you, mope. :)

Emoticons

by baxter on Saturday, 5th April 2008 at 18:51 9 comments

Here are some custom emoticons:

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All hand drawn.

Something is here

by baxter on Thursday, 3rd April 2008 at 09:42 2 comments

I’ve been a bit ill this week, which has given me some time to get my blog up and running. I’m using wordpress, which is an odd choice considering the reason i got frustrated with blogging was because of wordpress, but this is a new version and I can barely remember what my previous problems were so I might as well just get on with it :P