:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Saturday, March 22, 2003 ::

movie night
Estelle, Johnny, and I went to see Dreamcatcher last night. It wasn't really what we thought it was going to be. The commercials and previews all marketed the movie as another Stephen King thriller, but there were an awful lot of funny moments and then just plain weird moments. Now, granted, Stephen King writes his books that way sometimes, but there was no overall feeling through the movie. The dialog was hokey in a lot of places. I'd like to read the book, since there were a lot of unexplained things in the movie. They spent a lot of time establishing other facts from the book that they didn't need to spend as much time on as they did, too. I think they focused on the wrong thing.

today's meeting
The meeting with Rob went well today. I met the other two programmers as well, Monica and Dan. Monica's handling the middle and Dan's backend/database. There's also a webmaster, who's kind of in charge of all of us, and a graphic designer that I have yet to meet. Considering my position, I will need to meet with them and set up who will be doing what as far as the site goes. Who handles content, what the layout is going to be, color scheme and graphics, where the navigation tools will be, things like that. We got a lot discussed, a lot of questions were answered, and we're already working on ideas on how to approach the situation. While the next meeting won't be until May, Dan and Monica want to get started on some basics. I got the address to the prototype site, and I'll be looking that over to get a feel of what they're looking for so I know how to set up the forms and such.

However, my exact position and duties are still a bit unclear to me, so that's why I want to meet with the graphic designer and the webmaster. I want to figure out exactly where each of us stands and what it is that's expected of me. I'll try e-mailing Rob about possibly setting something like that up before May rolls around.