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Just a quick word to say Thank You to Angie and Nate from Lullabot, who spent several days with us at Bonnier Corp getting our Drupal-fu up to speed. And to Bonnier Corp for having me. And Ryan for the camera, and for being to one to mention git on Friday before I did ;-)

The excellent time tracking app OfficeTime is on sale today at MacUpdate Promo. I had actually considered buying it two weeks ago when I needed a time tracking app but went with On The Job instead as it was half of the other tool’s price. In typical fashion I’ve since wished I had OfficeTime due to the increased functionality but am now stuck with On The Job. Doh.

Just a quick word to say that no, I’m not selling tickets for Menopause: The Musical, that if you get that service when you call my number to email me instead, I’ll respond with my current contact information. Thank you :-)

Experienced web developer, with several in-production Ruby-on-Rails sites, 3.5 years of work with ColdFusion and PHP development since 1999, along with relevant hardware and server management, available for any and all opportunities. Thank you.

After several weeks of trying to do everything yet accomplishing nothing (or so it seemed), this week we’ve turned ourselves around and started living better, starting with a stronger separation of church and state, er, I mean work and home. We started off with a trip to the chiropractor, picked up breakfast, then spent some time painting the bedroom together. Now I’m going to work for a few hours and later will take a break away from it, then work some more - rinse, repeat. Amusingly this way we’ll actually accomplish more for our day than otherwise, and this morning has so far been a lot more fun and less stressful than previously, which is exactly what it should be.

Today’s lunch_fu was great, chatted with other geeks married to foreigners about being geeks married to foreigners (uh, I’m the foreigner..), Macs, and a variety of silly things. I also got to chat briefly with Ryan Price, who I’ve not seen in months. I’ll be picky about when I get to go again, though, as unfortunately by 4pm I’d only gotten in 4 hours of billable work.

I just wanted to wish all visitors a wonderful 2008.

The past year has been busy for me, between a second child in our family, a change in employment, and going from doing ColdFusion as my primary duty with Rails only on side projects, to Rails as #1 and ColdFusion #2 (with PHP dragging along as #3). Needless to say, I couldn’t be happier and look forward to a great year.

Just so you know, I’m currently very happily employed with Atlantic Dominion Solutions, a small but extremely talented group who focus on agile web development using Ruby on Rails. See, mum, they even have a picture of me :-)