Wildlife Report

Tom and I found this little guy and five of his brothers and sisters in the lawn underneath a picnic table in my back yard. Sooner or later I will have to trap them and relocate them to a place more suited to them.

Partial Success

Late last night I found a debugging extension to the application server I'm using so that I could continue trouble shooting the conversion of a friend's site. Installed it today, configured it, started using it. In a matter of less than an hour after starting to use it, I found my errors, corrected them and got through the basic conversion. Now all that is left is back porting the customizations I had made in the original.

Proper tools are a wonderful thing

Return From Hiatus

It's been a bit since I've last posted. I've been keeping myself busy with the garden, some reading, work and of course family life. An odd bit of news, seems like Karl as well as Tommy want to do some programming. I'll have to help them get started. First step was to get a copy of a decent IDE for them to use. Right now they are just writing simple web pages, but they get a kick out of writing them. Tom's taken to writing simple AppleScript routines for his computer. Mostly simple examples, but sooner or later he'll figure out how to do something he considers useful. Of course there is his BlockLand programming that he does. Programming objects in a virtual world to do something during gameplay.

After three weeks staying away from it, I'm back into fixing that conversion. Decided to use version control to help me track my progress in the changes that I'm making. Skills learned at work are helping out once again. Tomorrow I'll work through the full conversion, and try to figure out why the previous attempts faltered.