I have worked with this guy on a number of sites and he has always been a joy to work for.

This time, it gets even better…

This site is for his brewery…

Over the past year or so I have really started getting into the Craft Beer scene. In fact, you won’t catch me with a Bud Light unless I am desperate, so this site is something that I am going to enjoy making for him.

I only hope that in the end, I get a 6er or two of each of his brews!

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

p.s. I will release the name etc when the site is done…

For years I did everything under MJFDesigns. While I still own and operate MJF Designs, it is more of a hobby and no longer fully depicts who I am online.

This blog [Jobysblog.com] started out to be a place for me to come to post my feelings about whatever I wanted. Never really caring if anyone were to read it. But over the past few months I have been thinking about what I want to be when I grow up and will soon be steering this blog toward my new personal brand.

What brand? The brand is BaldFatGuy. Here is why:

Joby’s Blog has always touted the tag line ‘Blog of a Bald Fat Guy.’  I picked up the nickname when working with the youth of my church. I remember sitting in class talking with them one Sunday morning when I began to feel that they were not really paying much attention. I recall saying something like ‘Hey The Bald Fat Guy did not write this stuff God did…’ or something like that… They chuckled a little and from then on, I started referring to myself as BfG on Xanga etc (yeah I had one). Soon it became my handle on every new site I signed up for…

Y0u can find me using BaldFatGuy or in some cases (theBaldFatGuy) in many places:
- Twitter
- Foursquare
- Gowalla
- Instagr.am
- Flickr
- Beerby
- I am sure there is more…

The name and domain here will stay the same, the older posts will be here as well, but focus will shift slightly.

You can expect a new layout for Joby’s Blog.  No doubt I will be saying good-bye to some of the right hand column items, and hello to new ones as well.

So for now, please pardon the dust and occasional wonkiness you will encounter as I change, re-change, and change things around here over the next short while.

More to come…
-BfG

While the content and spontaneous/sporadic nature of my posts may not change, there will be some noticeable changes in the near future.

Here’s a hint…

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

I have been busy with a couple odds and ends, but mostly Gift Cards World.

After purchasing a new back-end script, I spend most of my evenings changing the files to use my design. This has causes a bit of a slow down for me to learn a little more about JavaScript and CSS.

I tend to learn as I go. I prefer to DO something than to read about how to do it.

Anyway, I plan to launch the site at the end of this month.

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

All ones – sounds like a great day to launch a site.

So here is the deal. I am starting an auction site for Gift Cards. The site is a ‘penny auction’ site.

Basically I will place a gift card up for auction. The starting price of the auctions will be $0.00. Each time a person places a bid on the price will increase by a set amount and the time remaining will increase by a number of seconds.

Bids are purchased in packs and are used one at a time. Each time you bid on an item, your bid count drops.

For the launch on 1-1-11 I have made some slight changes to the normal operation of things. I wanted the launch to be a bit more challenging. I have placed 4 $100.00 ‘Your Choice’ auctions up. Each auction is worth $100.00. This means you can mix and match the cards you receive as long as the total worth of the cards is $100.00.

The first 10 to sign up and purchase a bid pack will be placed into a random drawing to receive a $50.00 card of your choice.

Here is the official announcement from the sites news section.

Launching Saturday 1-1-11

Gift Cards World is set to launch on January 1, 2011.

Get on board now and be entered into our Launch Day $50.00 card give away.

To keep things fair for launch day, we are not offering any free bids on sign up. We will also place the site into ‘Maintainance Mode’ at 8:00pm EST on Dec 31. Bidding on the 4 $100.00 ‘Your Choice’ auctions will begin at 8:00am EST Janurary 1, 2011 and will run until bidding ends (an additional 30 seconds is added to the remaining time [per bid.]) At 1:00PM EST we will choose the winner of the $50.00 ‘Your Choice’ card.

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

I took my time so as to get as many features in the script as I could. The script mimics the original, while lending its own perspective on the features.

Future updates will be incorporate features that are recommended buy the script users.

Purchases include updates.

Updates include:

• Feature additions
• Bug Fixes
• Anything else I find useful

theFiverrClone

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

This has been a great experience for me.

I have learned a lot in the area of PHP and MYSQL programming.

I have sent the files on to a beta tester and hope to release the script in a few days.

If you are interested, you can sign up at theFiverrClone to be emailed when the script is ready.

- ‘Till next time
- Joby

With any luck I will release Sunday…

‘Till next time
- Joby

I am now in the final stages with the site clone. I spent most if the evening after Church removing hardcoded paths/urls and replacing them with variables.

If things continue at this rate, I should release the script this week.

Work is a total drag. The situation at church is absolutely mind boggling. I have not had time to code in ages and this weekend is no different!

On the bright side, I did get to post this from my new iPhone app for wordpress!

Have a good weekend everybody

- Till next time
- Joby