St Patty's Day 2010

We've only got another month or so in our current location. Working above an Irish Pub on St Patty's Day will be missed... sort of

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An age of incomplete thoughts

Is it just me or does it seem like us techies live in an age of incomplete thoughts? Maybe it is my inability to keep up with the industry but I'd like to think that is not it. Seemingly every time I check my tweets, blogs, buzz blah blah from colleagues in the IT industry they are talking about some new tool, pattern, language or framework. It seems like we are so concerned with discovering the next new thing that we don't bother to complete existing ideas.

Are we distracted by pretty birds or is all this just an effect of me having a 2 year old boy, a new baby girl at home and a new home?

Tia Jacklyn Sellers

.. entered the world on 2-17-2010 at 12:09pm. She weighed 6lbs 12.8oz, was 20 3/4 inches tall and scored a 9 on the APGARD. Head measured 13 inches. An incredible incredible experience, unexplainable so I won't even try for fear of not living up to what it actually was. All I can say is that my Wife is the strongest person in the world.

Mom and Baby are doing great. Both are napping as Daddy reconnects with the cyber world.

I'm now the Father of a beautiful little girl. All boys out there, this is your first and last official warning. Be afraid and be FAR away from Tia. I know people...

Having our baby!!!

We were admitted last night and are continuing with the labor into today, February 17th. So far so good, the people here have been great and the labor is going as well as it could. Keeping fingers and toes crossed. Hopefully little Pink will be here soon!

Finally a home owner again!

Well, it has finally happened. After 6+ months in Mesa living with my parents in a retirement community, we have finally moved into our new home in north Phoenix.

Too busy to write any more. Still love my family, love my friends and love my job.

More to come...

Hi blog, its me Jay

It has been quite awhile since we last spoke. Life has a way of being busy, when you have a one year old, you are selling a house, working at a new job, searching for homes in another state and preparing to move 1500 miles away.

With that said, lets get back to it. Where was I.... oh yes, Tapestry.

I am currently trying to figure out how to pop-up a window after a form submission. Sounds easy enough but its implementation is proving to be very elusive.

Since our last chat many positive things have been accomplished. We have confluence and jira installed and integrated. The dev team is slowly getting acclimated to making jira and confluence a part of their daily processes. We have stand-up meetings every morning. We have a new colo of servers, consisting of 10 new machines, dedicated to serving pixels. We recently got approval to treat the conversion of our existing project to a maven project, as a production task rather then a dev task. Thats a big win and will be the trailblazer for future requests.

All in all I still like my job. Its a good company with good people. It has the typical small-company issues but also the typical entrepreneurial spirit.

I will try to write more often, I promise.

Page Conversions - Tapestry

The past few days I've been working on converting existing tapestry pages. The conversion includes basic look and feel of the the html and some behind the scenes changes to how data is handled.

At this point I don't know if its Tapestry's fault or our own, but it seems like we're standing on our heads. I'm hoping that it is us, cause if its not I'm going to have to push hard to remove tapestry from this project.

Time will tell...