Visual Lizard
Wil Alambre
Wil works for Visual Lizard Inc. Wil is a web developer. Wil has been a web developer for over eight years. Wil likes working on web sites. Wil makes web pages in his spare time. Wil is one of those lucky people who get’s paid for doing what he loves doing. Wil would happily work on web sites for free. But Wil needs to pay bills. Luckily, developing web sites pays Wil’s bills. Lucky Wil.
Wil is influenced by many things, and it is reflected in Wil’s work. Wil likes comic books. Wil continues to collect graphic novels from a variety of publishers to this day. Wil likes movies, even the cheesy bad ones. Wil is one of those people that keep Hollywood in business, despite the drek they put out. Wil plays video games. Wil owns a Gamecube, and defies anyone to convince him he made the wrong choice. Wil plays roleplaying games, both table top and live action. Wil likes roleplaying because it’s like playing pretend as kids.
Wil was a kid in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. Wil was very cold there. Wil moved down to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to continue his schooling. Wil is less cold here. Wil attended the University of Manitoba and Robertson College. But many of Wil’s skills were self taught. Wil spent many a moment in front of a computer. Wil read web sites. Wil learned web sites. Wil built web sites.
Wil entered the web industry in 2000. Wil learned about dynamic content and database oriented design at his job. Wil pushed and prodded at scripting languages and datatable layout. Wil discovered a lot about what makes a content managed web site tick. Wil made it sit up and beg. Wil also worked alongside a world class web designer. Wil learned about grids and colours and layout. Wil learned how important proper navigation and content and presentation was. Wil built some excellent web sites for very important people.
Wil joined Visual Lizard Inc in 2005. Wil learned about open source software. Wil learned MySQL and PHP. Wil discovered many smart people working with the same tools, and learned a lot from them. Wil wrangled code, working alongside already brilliant Visual Lizard staff to improve Catalyst, their content management system.
Wil works with Visual Lizard to build web sites. Wil gets paid, and buys comic books and video games.
Lucky Wil!
Photos of the Lizards hard at work
I’ve updated my Flickr account with a couple pictures I snapped yesterday. We were hunkered down at the board room table, downing caffeinated beverages while slamming out some code. :) You can click here to see all my Visual Lizard related photos. Feel free to leave us a comment... we might...
CakePHP Updates It's Online Manual
We’ve been building a couple exciting projects on the CakePHP framework, and have recently been using the new 1.2 branch. So, as a developer, it’s been frustrating to try and look up information only to find the provided Manual was for 1.1 only... and it was out-of-date at that. There...
First Trailer For The Spirit
The first trailer for the comicbook movie, The Spirit, has been released. The movie is being directed by Frank Miller, creator of 300 and Sin City, and who helped direct the former. I know Frank Miller’s style in comic books of late, but I must admit I’m surprised to see this movie shot...
Danny Boy, performed by the Muppets
In honor of St Patricks Day, an old Youtube video of the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker singing Danny Boy. Oh poor Beaker, will you ever get any respect? :) ...and, ’cause I love the Muppets and there’s very little funnier than seeing Beaker trying to sing...
Italy 2008, Day Eight
More on my trip to Italy, this day covering my last in Rome! As before, I’ve updated my Flickr account with an associated photoset for you to browse through. Enjoy! After our original failure, we were determined to see the Vatican Museum on Friday. Since this was our last day in Rome, we were...
On My Radar
Oct 11, 2008
Manitoba Comic Con and SciFi Expo
Oct 13, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Oct 14, 2008
Canadian Federal Election
Oct 17, 2008
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Oct 17, 2008
Max Payne
From The Web
Oct 10, 2008
Star Trek Original Series Now Warping on YouTube [Free Series]
Linked by Wil
Oct 10, 2008
Jonathan Coulton in LA -02-Skullcrusher Mountain
Second song-Skullcrusher Mountain
Recorded live at Temple Bar Santa Monica CA
10-09-06
Great funny...
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Oct 10, 2008
Opera Hires Jon Hicks
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Oct 10, 2008
CSS Wishlist
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Oct 09, 2008
Yahoo Gets Real-Time With Web Analytics
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Oct 09, 2008
Amazon drops S3 prices
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Oct 09, 2008
CSS Filters for Firefox, Safari and Opera
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Oct 08, 2008
MyAnalytics puts Google Analytics in your pocket
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