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We went to the Festival in the Pines on Sunda with Dad. There were over 250 craft booths there with people selling all sorts of things from music CDs to jewelery to wooden furnture. I saw quite a bit of things that I would have loved to buy but I had no way to get [...]

Carissa had a great time on her vacation last week. She went out to Oak Harbor, WA to visit with her friend who she has not seen for over six years. She took lots of pictures and I’m trying to convince her to post some of them in the photo gallery, although I still have [...]

I signed the contract for my new book. It’ll be around 250 pages and I hope to have it done by January. The book will show programmers how to make things look pretty. I’m hoping to make it as easy to follow as possible for people who don’t have a formal design background so this [...]

Ana and I had a great time on our vacation. It was awesome spending time with her. We worked on riding the bike quite a bit and she got a lot better. We also took some trips to the park to play on the swings. She’s growing up really fast. Dad came down twice and [...]

I am a Rails evangelist, it seems. I spend a lot of time working with the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework. There was a huge security vulnerability announced today and we were all told to apply the patch. Unfortunately we weren’t told exactly why, or what the vulnerability is. Many of us have [...]