I haven’t written anything of substance for a while and due to today’s link love from TechCrunch I thought I’d write a quick ‘lil update.

As mentioned in the TechCrunch article and a couple of my (sort-of) recent posts Craig’s Little Buddy is no longer. I got banned! Boo on Craig’s List for being so lame about it. Eh, but a few long lasting bits of goodness came about from that project:

• Craig’s Little Buddy was a “facade”. The “real” project was a MVC framework (for PHP). It’s way too boring to write a framework w/ no visual payoff so I used Little Buddy to satisfy the give-me-something-i-can-see itch. Plus, I had to have some real world, app development scenarios to run through. So I worked on both in parallel. The framework works and is pretty sweet. It’s currently running on Blip.fm and some time soon I’ll document the bastard & open source it.
• The project also helped me get this job at Digg. Prior to my phone screen with Joe Stump I zipped up and emailed him the entire code base for the site as a code sample. I’m sure that helped out a ton (I did get the gig).

First off, I’m no longer the Lead Engineer of Blip.fm; I am now working at Digg as a member of their Core Infrastructure team. So, what happened? Why’d you leave?. Well, it’s really a personal choice. I’m a big fan of the Blip.fm product (I did come up with the idea ) and have nothing but awesome things to say about the entire team there. It’s a personal thing and when the opportunity at Digg became a legit option I got really stoked about it and made the jump.

Digg’s a pretty sweet place to work. I’m liking it here. The culture jives with me, I love the product and there’s a ton of smart folks that I get a chance to learn from and work with. … And as a bonus the offices are just a few blocks from Blip.fm so my commute is exactly the same… I’m a creature of habit .

Alirghty – what else?

I turned 30 on August 1^st! Pretty crazy. I’m officially “old” (no offense to pre-1978 peeps). My birthday was great. My girlfriend kicked ass at putting together a sweet party and I got some badass gifts including:

• A 52 inch LCD TV from my family
• A PS3
• A one of a kind, prototype, Music Man bass. It’s a BFR Sterling with an awesome quilted, maple top. It’s awesome! You can check out pix over on my Flickr page. This was a gift from Sterling Ball and all the great folks over at Ernie Ball/Music Man.

So, things are good

I’m slowly starting work on a few tiny side projects. One of ‘em requires code to access IMAP via PHP; I hate don’t like the packages available on PEAR so I’m writing one. I’m documenting this as I code so I’ll open source it once it’s ready. This project will also use the MVC framework I baked up so I’ll put some polish on that fucker and open source it too. I’ll keep you posted on that stuff and link to the packages once they’re documented with how-to’s and all that good stuff.

I guess that’s it. Oh ya, I almost forget: I finally got a Sadowsky!

That’s all folks. Stay tuned for a review on the Sadowaky and some other random bullshit.