I'm a 37'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 01/18/2007 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 12/22/2006 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 10/16/2006 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 10/11/2006 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 10/08/2006 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.
Posted on 08/20/2006 at 05:04 AM
Some minor tweaking to my “work-in-progress” ... I’m still looking for a better designed center column, I feel the yellow highlighting (a UI element that already exists in BBEDIT) of story titles is working well, but as you can see when a title is longer than one line of text all hell breaks loose.
Posted on 08/19/2006 at 04:56 AM
We may be home finally, but life is still very demanding as you can imagine. There was a slight case of Jaundice that kept us from coming home on time, she needed 2 more days under a heat lamp to bring the yellow out of her skin. She’s looking great though and has fully recovered.
I promised some pictures of Ailee once we got home from the Hospital so here they are:
Posted on 08/13/2006 at 04:55 AM
After 11 hours of complicated labor, my wife gave birth to our darling daughter, Ailee Jones, weighing in at 7 lbs 14 ounces, with starlight eyes and a quivering chin thats so cute you could just die. I’ve not been to bed yet but will post pictures when my wife and I get home from the hospital. For now I need some sleep but wanted to tell the world, my joy has come, and she’s gorgeous.
*hands Ailee the keyboard and a java 5.0 book*
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Posted on 08/12/2006 at 04:54 AM
I’m no where near finished with this yet but thought I would post what I’ve put together so far and get some feedback.
I do not pretend to be a designer =)
Posted on 08/08/2006 at 04:54 AM
I’ve been busy with Work lately but in my free time I’m designing a new theme for this site. I desire something a little more personal than what I have. The Fauna theme has been instrumental in getting me acquainted with the topic of Wordpress theme design, so I’m quite anxious to be starting over. I’ll post some screenshots of what I’m working on as I have them.
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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.
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Foundation's Edge, RJones Family, We're Not.com (only for staging), Ailee Jones (same as rjones for now)
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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.