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Below are a few family photos snapped at Kayla’s niece Mya’s 3rd birthday party. We had a lot of fun at the party with all the kids and family. Even more fun than that, immediately following the birthday party I got to go on a ride along with my brother-in-law Adam who is a Moses [...]

The worst job for any web developer is testing your creations across browsers. Until now, there has been no good way to test a website in various versions of IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. When installing an updated version of each of these browsers your older version goes away. For many developers, this means you [...]

It is officially deer season in Washington State. I am a fisherman and have never been a big hunter. I have nothing against hunting and have gone myself many times but it I would much rather be fly fishing on a small stream somewhere in the forest. I have never really cared for shooting animals [...]

Adobe announced they are going to introduce Flash Player 10 for most mobile operating systems. I say most, because there is still no Flash Player for the iPhone. Later this year, users with the Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, and Palm WebOS operating systems will gain access to Flash content. Those of us [...]

Everyone knows how much I hate Internet Explorer 6. I personally wasn’t a fan when it had 90% market penetration and I am even less of a fan now that it is somehow hanging onto a 20ish% share long after it should be dead. The unfortunate reality is that IE6 is still important. Although, its [...]

Warren Buffett released his letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders yesterday morning. Like many I look forward to reading his letter every year. His letters are filled with great information and insights on the inner workings of Berkshire Hathaway, the economy, and life in general. In his previous shareholder letters there has been a wealth of [...]

Since Kayla puts up with me spending an obscene amount of time online every other day of the year I thought I would utilize today’s blog post to thank her for a wonderful year and for putting up with me constantly being on the computer. She has also endured a lot of jabs from me [...]

For the last couple years JavaScript frameworks have been all the rage. Why not? They are fantastic. JavaScript that previously would have taken hours to write can now be achieved in a few minutes using popular frameworks. Many of these frameworks can help with various animations, streamlining DOM manipulation, speeding up the process of writing [...]

A lot has been said about Barak Obama’s digital strategy in the 2008 presidential election. In fact, I have made other posts discussing specific tactics he was able to successfully leverage to build an online following as well as some insight into how plans to carry that into his presidency. While Obama’s campaign successfully utilized [...]

I was out of town the last couple days. Thanks to WordPress’s fantastic publish date feature, my loyal readers didn’t notice a difference because I still published articles bright and early every morning. Where was I? I went home to visit my family in Chehalis Washington because I hadn’t been there for quite some time. [...]