Bad Genie

Take Solace will be playing at the Bad Genie Rock Lounge in downtown Milwaukee on 4/15/2009.  Check out takesolace.com for more information.

Happy Birthday to Me

It's my birthday today. Happy birthday to me.

Take Solace at The Main Stage in Waukesha Friday, May 25th

Take Solace will be at The Main Stage in Waukesha on Friday, May 25th around 9PM. They'll be opening for Sweetheart Tripwire. Most of the band members are from Carroll College so we're considering it some kind of Carroll reunion / end of school bash. If you want to see what some fellow alumns are up to or if you want to see what you might look like when you graduate come and check Take Solace and Sweetheart Tripwire out. And have a beer. They are always cold and wet at The Main Stage.

Map to The Main Stage in Waukesha

Take Solace w/ Sweetheart Tripwire
05/25/2007 9:00 P.M.

The Main Stage
716 Clinton St.
Waukesha, WI 53186

Indie Folk Rock in Milwaukee Wisconsin

If you are into Modest Mouse, Okkervil River, Neutral Milk Hotel or any other folk rock bands check out Take Solace. They are an indie folk rock band in Milwaukee and are bringing some new sounds to the area. Everyone knows that Milwaukee's music scene isn't the best right now, but even in the dark ages there can be some light. So go check them out when they come to your area. They play in Riverwest a lot and even go as far as Sturgeon Bay and Madison.

Freelance Websites

So, I've had a couple freelance jobs complete recently and thought you might be interested in some of my work. The sites are done for two businesses in Door County that are somewhat related: Talisman Sailing Charters and Robertson's Cottages. Both sites are hosted on Bluehost (whom I find to be a pretty reliable and good hosting provider). They use PHP and MySQL for the back ends cause that is the most cost effective solution available and I wanted to hone some of my skills in PHP.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

About Dirk and his development styles

Well, my site is really at dirq.net but I'd thought I'd create another blog just for pure link farming. I know, I know - not very nice or entirely ethical but I'll probably post some useful stuff up here every once and a while.

Dirk Watkins

I'm a full-time web developer and have been focusing a lot of my attention on usability, accessibility and web standards. Although I do work alone most of the time I try to keep my internal code commented and ready for someone else to get into - just in case. Doing things this way is also nice for when you need to look back at something you did a year ago and remember what your thoughts were then. I work mostly in C#, JavaScript and CSS but have been dabbling in PHP and ActionScript a bit lately. Check out my site, the life and work of dirk watkins, to see some code examples and some of my music and art along with random findings of things in Milwaukee.

I also have an indie rock band called Take Solace. I created that site to display some music, poetry, and art on too. I write most of the songs, sing and play guitar. I try. Let me know what you think of those things too.