I'm a 34'ish year old web application developer from South Portland, Maine. I love meeting fellow techies, drop me a line if you want to talk shop.
Posted on 04/18 at 12:16 PM
Early Monday morning I went to bed at my usual time, about 4:30 am. The winds were howling and I’d just finished my latest Java assignment for class. A good friend of mine, Barnaby from Connecticut, had just text’ed me some sorry images of his house being flooded by the coming storm. The rain was hard but I didn’t think hard enough to warrant that sort of concern for myself here in Maine ... little did I know.
Posted on 04/08 at 12:15 PM
As the title states, this is the next iteration of my Sonar applet. I’ve added a “ping” collision sound, optimized the classes a little and added key commands to pause (P) the animation and show the FPS (D). I also discovered the proper way to reference the sound files internally so it works as an applet and an application. You’ll notice there are 2 tracker lines now ... only the first one is used for collision testing, the second tracker line is simply a place holder for a feature I am trying to add.
Posted on 03/05 at 12:14 PM
I am uploading this dummy applet I wrote to try out a new java applet embedding plug-in that I found for Wordpress. Its called Snapplets and was written by Steve Winton. Now that I see it working I am pretty impressed. It could use a little more work, I may have to modify it further. Thanks Steve.
View the applet after the jump.
Posted on 03/04 at 12:14 PM
Man oh man, today is a day I will never forget, the day I learned to use Subversion.
Subversion is a server-side piece of software you use to do version control on your documents. It’s particularly useful in situations where more than one person will be editing those documents. You edit your files locally and then commit those changes to a server, at which point someone else is able to safely check them out again, edit away and then upload their versions over yours. The important thing to note: older versions are always still accessible.
Posted on 03/03 at 12:13 PM
I took this evening to update the engine that my website is built upon to the 2.1.2 release of Wordpress.
I ran into an odd problems along the way, a situation where all the site seemed to work fine except that I was unable to load the “Manage” (/wp-admin/edit.php) posts page. All that would come up was a white page. After some investigation, I found a post where at least one other person had experienced the same problem.
Posted on 01/18 at 12:13 PM
I started taking a Java programming course at the local university. I’m looking forward to learning “everything java” over the next 4 months, though its been such a long time since was a student. I’ve never been a fan of classroom environments. Going at someone else’s pace, whether faster or slower than I’d prefer is just a lose/lose situation to be in.
Posted on 12/22 at 12:12 PM
Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past month (or has it been 2 months!?).
I’m planning this as a Christmas present for my Wife’s father. This character is actually a mascot for his Japanese restaurant, Sapporo, here in Portland, Maine. The sculpt happens to be my first sculpture ever, a hobby I’ve been slowly getting into for about a year now ... How do you slowly get into sculpting in a years time? Lotsa reading 
Posted on 10/16 at 12:11 PM
Do ignore the right column for now if you can, mWahahahahah!
As you can see I’m nearing the completion of my new site design. I just added the ability for you to add comments again and the layout now appears to display correctly in Exploder, Firefox and Safari.
Posted on 10/11 at 12:11 PM
I’ve been converting my Photoshop mockup into a CSS template and then converting that into a wordpress theme. I’m about 45% finsihed with the conversion. It may not win me any awards but it will at least be more personal than the current design of the site. Here‘s the latest version of my completed CSS work. I’m pretty pleased with how its turned out. (it also validates for both xhtml and css) My goal was to design a front end that had a feel for the apps I use in my development process.
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Posted on 10/08 at 12:10 PM
Its not often i remember to download all the pictures I’ve taken off my camera phone. I found this gem recently in a rather large batch, a picture of me with my grandfather from a few months ago.
Often times I will release code for free or go that extra distance to help others online. If my skills were useful to you, please consider a small donation. Thank you very much.
Foundation's Edge, RJones Family, We're Not.com (only for staging), Ailee Jones (same as rjones for now)
Aaron, Barnaby, Brian, Chris, Dirk, Frank, Fred, Four, Justin, Matt, Mike, Monty, Paul, Sean, Travis
I can usually be found lounging on irc.freenode.net while I work, on the following channels: #fauna, #github, #hello-heroku, #jquery, #passenger, #ruby, #rubyonrails, #slicehost, #sproutcore, #textmate, #werenot.