Or at least those who settle for buying Pepsi for $.55 out of the pop machine.

Check it out! I bought one, and Three came out. Top that, everyone!!! Ahhhahahhaha!!!!

   As of November 2nd, it is official that Famous Davis is now located at the MinnWest Technology Campus. I probably should have blogged about this earlier, but it seems I've been keeping busy. How is the campus? It's great. I love absolutely everything about the new setup. The architecture is really cool, I now have a window, I work with people I am closest to and the actual work is great. So far, within the building we are located in, it's only us and two other businesses since it's only been open for rent not even a year. It's a huge building, to say the least. I'm unsure of the actual count of rooms, but it has to be up around a hundred. It'll be exciting to see it filled in the near future.

   So far so good, people. Be sure to check out FamousDavispro.com in the near future, as I will be updating a vast majority of it.

Here I am everyone, on my third day of working at Famous Davis, sitting at a built-in desk bustin' code like you've never seen before.

Alright, actually I feel like I'm not getting a whole lot done. Mostly because it feels like I've just been setting up stuff or something. New job, I guess. Today I believe will be pretty productive, however. We are going out to the MinnWest Technology Campus for a while to get the keys and badges and what-not so that we can utilise our soon-to-be office. I'm pretty excited! I'll get pics sometime for you to decide. AND! Sounds like we got the job of maintaining their website! w00t!

The past couple years, I've had experience with about four different hosting solutions. A small hosting service, 1 and 1, a virtual machine setup and a very short-lived attempt at hosting from home. Though all did serve my site for a small portion of time, they all had certain flaws. Three things usually irked me more than others. One was security. 1and1 especially seemed to really strap everything down to the point where you could hardly run a functioning asp.net website. I can understand some of the reason, but it seemed a bit overboard.  Also, 1and1 seemed just a tad out of the times with a few of their options. I'm a .net developer, so I need some freedoms with IIS options. They only allowed five web applications per account, and they didn't quite upgrade to .net 2.0 until about two months after it came out...

The smaller hosting I used was for the most part very good. They were very responsive when something went wrong, their fault or my own. Pretty johnny-on-the-spot about new technology. The only gripe (and a fairly large one) was that their system went down a couple months ago and the most recent backup they had was from nine months prior to the hard drive crash. Ouch. That sucked.

The VM experience was alright. I mean, security wasn't an issue for the most part (Though the ftp was an active session, which intefered with a bit of my setup). I set up a few VMs myself, and they aren't really the fastest things on earth. You could kind of tell things where a little pokey once and a while. Over-all it was an alright experience.

Ok ok ok, this blog is probably the most boring thing I've wrote in a while. Basically, what I'm getting at is that I finally have my own dedicated server to play with! It's great. As a benefit of being in the MinnWest Campus, Famous Davis gets to park their webserver in their datacenter. Big fat line coming into our new box. YES. So, my site should be running a notch faster (which is hopefully noticable).

A few of you may know, a few may not, but I just quit my job at E-markets yesterday. Naturally, in my own life, this is a big deal. Huge, actually. First of all, I have never quit a job in my life which gave me an influx of over-played worst-case scenarios, nervousness, sweaty arm pits and a million alternate endings racing through my mind. This feeling I had, it was heightened by the thought that maybe I was making the wrong decision. I have never quit a job, let alone one I felt secure in and one I really enjoyed.

What would make a man give up something like this? One could make examples of money, security, an accident, perhaps a shorter commute, pursuing a different venture in life, people, etc. These are all justifiable in one way or another, but none pertain to me. Though, financially, I do ask for enough to cover the necessities and a little in the bank for savings (and whatever else after that is appreciated, also), my driving reason of making this decision is a couple of things. Firstly, it is because I know I will be able to expand myself and grow in ways I can't right now; as a person, artist and programmer. Secondly, where I am going, I feel that I am very needed and will be able to expand a cause that I am very interested in. If not for self-worth, it is for the sake of something I believe in.

Without further redo, I am going to work at Famous Davis and will specialize in Web Development. This is very exciting for me, as this has been a dream of mine since I was fifteen. I will be working with my father, Chris "The Duke" Davis and with my wife, Jacinda. This change has been on my heart for the past few months, but timing felt off, or the opportunity didn't feel right. It was also a scary move as I have been very comfortable with E-Markets. I have so badly wanted to write about it or talk about it more openly, but that would not have been a good move. So instead it stayed within the ol' brain.

October 16th is when I start at Famous Davis. It's going to be a ton of fun. Sounds like I have a bunch of projects lined up, waiting for me, which I cannot wait to pounce on. We are soon moving out to the MinnWest Technology Campus. I also have an awesome computer and a 22 inch display to play with. Through all of this, however, I need to remember why I am at this point in my life and what my priorities are. God has pulled me through something tough and I pray that I am not steered too far away from the main point of things. Everything still sort of feels like a blur, but is clearing up faster and faster. I need that clarity in order to know which path needs to be taken and how to please God in the actions I take. He's helped me come this far, I don't feel like giving up now.

A huge thanks to my former employer and coworkers, for the great working environment, opportunities and knowledge gained. Also a huge thanks to my parents and especially my wife for supporting me in this venture.