Well, as they say, “All good things must come to an end”. Tomorrow is my return to the land of the working stiffs. I have had a great week of vacation visiting friends, family, and places that I have not seen in some cases for well over 10-12 years.

During my visit back to San Antonio, I made it a point to go and do all of San Antonio’s Mission trail. Having lived in SA for nearly 20years, I managed to accomplish in one 8 hour day, what I was unable, or unwilling to do in those prior 20 years. A handful of photos of my trip to the missions is now posted on my flickr page. (Or the top of the right column here ).

Well, not looking to spend my last day of vacation in front of the computer any more than absolutely necessary, I hope this little nugget to be the first of many more to come in an continually updated blog.

Needless to say, the site is finally in what I would consider a solid starting place. There are still a few nooks and crannies that need some tlc, but for the most part, there is a site that I do not mind sending people to.

I can assure you going, forward, the site, in particular the blog will not sit and collect dust. During this development phase for the site, I have been collecting and roughing out several blog post ideas and outlines that I intend to crank out in the coming weeks. I have enough roughed out to have a post a week for the next 8-9 weeks. These will include but are not limited to my views on Internet Explorer 6 and it’s continued support by many web designers and developers, and my take on why companies like youTube and google are going forward without supporting it. I’ve also got planned a follow up to my friend Aaron’s post that chronicles the brands we encounter on a daily basis, really overwhelming when you see it in a post.

Well, that’s it for the time being. I will be back in the coming weeks, but feel free to follow me on any of the readily available social media outlets.

What you see is the beginning of my site in the Agile development process. For those of you, that perhaps are unfamiliar with agile design, there is a great article on A list apart by Cennydd Bowles,  “Getting Real About Agile Design”.  The list of things I ‘intend’ to implement continually grows, and grows pushing the launch of the site further and further away, and that is precisely why agile design/ development is the way to go. Within a few days I will post my ‘checklist’ of items to be implemented over time. This ‘checklist’ is by no means a bible, or carved in stone, just a vague roadmap for me to target certain parts of the site with either functionality or content.

Just as everything on the web should be in constant motion, so too will brainofj.com. I think, at least for me, the important thing is to ‘keep moving forward’, and maybe we can all learn a little something from one another in the process.

Now… lets get things going.