June 2008 - Posts
Doug Ware at Elumenotion is writing a series of blog posts about how he is building an E-Commerce site based on SharePoint. The sample project will be a live e-commerce site where you can support the author's quest to keep food on his family's table by purchasing humorous welcome mats. Said that wrong. The author is not purchasing funny rugs. You can support the author by purchasing the rug. The author's quest to keep food blah blah blah... he's selling the rugs. You get the idea. Read the blog posts. Buy a rug.
Post 1 - The project envisioned
Post 2 - The project roadmap
Post 3 - The tools
Looks like this will be fun to watch
No one told me about this before having a kid, but apparently it's a common issue that kids (lots of them, worldwide) get fussy between about 7pm and 11pm. This unexplainable phenomenon is known as the "witching hour". Parker's time seems to be between 9pm and 1am. 11pm is one of his feeding times but where he'd normally be content he screams through the feeding. What sucks is that my shift normally is between 8pm through the 11pm feeding. He gets so fussy and I'm reluctant to just turn him back over to the always exhausted Kim while he's crying that I end up staying up with him to 1 or 1:30. Last night Kim stayed with me through the 11pm feeding to see what I was talking about. She was astonished at how angry he was!
Oh well - this too shall pass. The biggest problem is that it cuts into my writing time. Deadlines are going to be pressured...
New photos of Parker are on Flickr if you've not seen him recently. He's gained nearly 3 pounds since his birth a month ago!
Here is a photo I've been playing with using Paint.Net as a free alternative to Photoshop.
If anyone doesn't know, the DevCow calendar is actually manually updated every month. I have been updating the calendar for about 3-4 years now every month. The process I take is to go directly to the websites of the user groups that we list on the site and make sure they are having a meeting for the month. Sometimes if the web site is not updated but I know the user group leader personally I will update the calendar based on what they tell me.
Recently I have been busy and the calendar has been one of those things to get behind. I have always wanted to automate some of the calendar, but that would still require a person to enter information at some point in time so it can only be as up to date as the knowledge or the group.
The reason I am letting you know this is because many of the groups have mailing list you can subscribe to. This will allow you to make sure from the user group leader the exact details of the meeting. I will get the calendar back on track now and hopefully we won't get behind again. Sorry for the delay.