8 posts tagged “crossposted from acedanger.com”

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I just registered a new domain, LansaDocs.com. I registered it because the current Lansa documentation is somewhat lacking and needs some tender loving care that only the users (developers) of Lansa can provide. I have installed a Wiki (MediaWiki to be exact) so that the users can modify or add notes as they see fit.

It is my hope that the Lansa developers will begin to use and help maintain the site so that the Lansa documentation can be a bit more user-friendly and contain some very useful information. My target audience can currently be found at the Lansa Yahoo Group, which is currently the most useful Lansa help facility available.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

I have been contacted by David Chartier of the blog DownloadSquad.com and was inquiring about writing a post there about the Wordpress plugin I created to crosspost Wordpress posts to Vox (I dubbed it the Vox Crossposter, pretty ingenious huh??)! That's pretty damned exciting I think.

He also inquired about whether or not I would accept donations in order to help encourage me to further the development of my plugin. It was a difficult decision but I told him that I could indeed accept donations to continue doing what I really like to do: web development.

It is nice to get some recognition about the plugin. When I first started developing the plugin and posted it to the Wordpress plugins page, I helped a few people install it and get it running. Occasionally, I will hear from a user of the plugin about a feature request. It's nice to hear about people using the plugin, makes me feel like I can actually create usable things.

If there is a write-up regarding my plugin, I will post a link to it here.

If you are a user of the plugin, send me an email and tell me what you think, even if you hate it!

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

Yay, someone sent us a contract on our house! They are offering $235k, which is only $4,900 less than we are asking. Ok, enough good news, now for the bad.

They have a house to sell...a house that was just put on the market yesterday (1/5/07). This is the third time this couple has looked at our house so I'm confident so say that they are interested. Ready for another kick in the balls? They asked for us to pay ALL closing costs, up to 6% of the selling (which, if we paid all of that, would amount to $14,100). In the contract, it says that we can still market the house like there was not a contract on it and if we did get another offer, they would have 48 hours to give us a firm closing date or get financing or whatever. Interesting huh? We have to counter sometime soon; we're going to have to figure out how we are going to counter this offer.

In other news, we bought Aaron a 12' trampoline, with an enclosure off of Craigslist.com for $70! Amazing deal I think! We bought it last night and we've been putting it together all morning. We had to got to Home Depot to get some new u-bolts to replace the original ones since they were rusty. Everytime Aaron sees it, he says "JUMP!" in a very excited voice. He is going to love that thing!
My sister-in-law is in town for the next week. She is going to watch Aaron tonight so that Meri and I can go see a movie. I think we're going to see Eragon.

In work news, we blew through our 12/23 deadline, then through our 1/2 deadline and now we are working getting 90% done by 1/9 and then 99% done by the 1/31. It is a major system re-write and update. We are incorporating all kinds of AJAXy wonderfulness, throwing in a lot of JSON for communication of data, and of course, the base programming language is Lansa for the web. I'm gaining all kinds of great experience and knowledge and I will make a great web consultant someday (soon). :D

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

Meri, Aaron and I celebrated New Years day by taking Aaron to see the new Charlotte's Web movie at the Pleasure Island AMC. He lasted about an hour into the movie and then he and I walked around for a bit. We went back into the theatre and watched about 15 more minutes of the movie and then told us that he wanted to leave. We walked around Downtown Disney for about 30 minutes, saw some awesome Lego sculptures. Aaron was being very good until we walked out of the Disney store and then he lost it. He was very overtired from a long night of firework induced awakenings; they seemed to be in our backyard and right under our windows! It was a good day. We went home and Aaron and I played for a while. He was standing on my stomach and chest, would say "here's a big one!" and jump up, spread his legs and land on me! It was fun. He got very tired and sweaty after that.

Having my family here has been awesome! Every time I come home, Aaron screams "daddy! daddy!" and runs up to me as fast as he can and hugs me. When he wakes up in the mornings and I'm not there, he says to Meri "where's daddy?" very nervous-like. Meri tells him that I'm at work but I'll be home "later today". Saying that I'm at work a bad thing to tell Aaron since our 3 month separation. He gets very worried that I'm going to be gone for a long time.

Well anyway, I've got a system to get off the ground so I should probably get my happy ass back to work. Happy New Year's everybody.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

Let me just say start out and say that I have not abandoned the blogging that I grew to like a lot during my significant downtime while I worked at Terminix. I have just been really busy; between work and WoW and house searching and then more work...plus I had a lot of work to do...at work. Lots of work...at work.

After a long search, I have found a place to rent in Winter Park! It's about 7 miles from work so my commute time should only be about 20 minutes either way. The house we are renting is decent. It is 100% tile...no carpet. That was our largest limiting factor in looking for a place to rent. We were told that Aaron would *probably* be developing asthma in the next year due to his current allergies. It was recommended that we avoid carpet if possible so we did. I signed the lease today. We move in on December 20th. I will be flying to Memphis, for the last time, on December 16th, flying back with Aaron on the 18th and Meri is going to drive down on the 18th and 19th.

In "I STILL have a house to sell" news, couple number 27 came by to look at our lovely home since we put it on the market many moons ago. They are very interested and decided that it was the house for them. They have a house to sell and it is currently on the market but is not showing well because "they have too much stuff and it makes the house look small". They are currently in the process of trying to get approved for financing for both their mortgage and for the mortgage for our house! That sounds like a lot of work to me. We were told that they stopped looking at houses after they saw ours. If they do not get approved and still want our house, we are going to offer them a lease with an option to buy. That would be awesome to not have to pay a mortgage AND rent!

So anyway, I should probably get back to work. Work is fun, minus being insanely busy all the damn time. I'm doing a lot of AJAX integration (but not with XML, we use JSON because it's faster) with LANSA. If you have no clue what that all meant, here's a simpler way of saying it: I'm doing wicked cool stuff on the web! My JavaScript skills have increase dramatically in the past 3 months! I am having a lot of fun doing the actual coding part of my job. Now the operations side I could do without but you have to take the good with the bad.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

We have made most of the arrangements and I am very happy to finally be able to say that Meri and Aaron will finally be moving to Orlando on December 18th! Meri is going to drive her truck to Orlando and I will be flying down with Aaron...alone. Although Meri has done this many times, this will be my first time flying with him alone and I'm kind of nervous about it. He's a great kid and all but I know he can get grumpy when he has to stay in one place for a short period of time, thus causing me to get grumpy. Now all I have to do is fine a house for us! :)

This weekend, we are headed to St Louis to watch the 49ers kick the crap out of the lowly Rams. It should be fun! Meri, Aaron and I are meeting my father-in-law up there. He's like a super-fan so I'm kind of hoping, for the sake of the trip and for everyone's happiness. I'm resigned to the fact that the 49ers suck (but are doing very well lately!) but I don't think he is happy to admit that the Rams good days are far behind them! It should be fun either way. I'm looking forward to it.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

Today is our third anniversary. It doesn't seem like we've been married that long. Aaron still seems new to me too. Maybe it's being away from them for so long that makes me feel like it's all still so fresh. I am going home Saturday morning (Nov. 11th) and I'll be with my family until November 29th! That's 18 days of family time! I know it's not much but it's what drives me now.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

WoW is awesome! I'm not addicted as some people I know are but I enjoy playing. I won't be playing much once my family is back with me but until then, I'll be playing me some Wow!

I talked my boss into letting me work from Memphis two weeks at a time, instead of our originally negotiated one week. Two weeks with the family at a time?! Who would have ever thought I wouldn't be spending all of my time with them?! This has been one of the more difficult times in our lives, especially now that Aaron is fairly aware of what is going on.

Meri took Aaron trick-or-treating tonight and she said that he loved it. Aaron got to knock on every door and say "Happy Hawoween" (he has issues with his L's). The when the people would put candy in his pumpkin, he would fish it out, tell them what it was, and then say "Thank you for [insert candy name here]". I really wish I could have been there with them! He asked Meri if tomorrow was Happy Halloween again and then asked if there was going to be any more trick-or-treating again tomorrow. This is the first year that he's been into it like this. Next year will be fun too! I'll just look forward to that.

In other Wood family news, a woman came to look at our house for the second time in 3 days! I'm going to take that as a sign that she liked it a lot the first time. Our realtor seems to be stepping up lately and really getting the ball rolling. As much as we disliked her style initially, she does seem to have a fire under her ass now, for which we are thankful.

Now, back to WoW! I'm Nakhand on the Ner'zhul server in case anybody is interested...