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Archive for March, 2009
House goes on the market tomorrow
March 31st, 2009 by jwargo
Getting ready for a speaking engagement
March 31st, 2009 by jwargo
I’m getting ready for a speaking engagement at The View Lotus Domino Administrator 2009 and Lotus Domino Developer 2009 conferences. I have three sessions, one on the admin track called “Preparing for the Mobile Applications Onslaught” and two sessions for the Developers conference called “Beyond the Browser: Building Mobile Rich Client Applications to Access Your Domino Data” and “Extending Your Domino Applications to Mobile Devices.” I’m pretty excited about this. I’ve spoken at the conference the previous two years, but for both of them I was representing RIM, so I had to be careful about what I said. In this year’s presentations, I get to talk about BlackBerry (very near to my heart) but also other mobile platforms.
What I’ve been working on lately is a sample Domino Web Service and some clients that talk to it. I’d presented on using the BlackBerry MDS Studio development tool to create applications that talk to it, but this year I’m adding Windows, Windows Mobile and Java examples to the mix. I’m going to be creating 5 apps in the session and I’ll be showing another (java) separately. I don’t want to try to ‘write’ the java one in the session, too many chances to mess it up. I may even show a Delphi example if I get a chance.
April 14th through 16th in Boston, check it out: http://www.lotusdeveloper2009.com/eview/Dev09Bos.nsf/lookup/speakersn?OpenDocument
Look for my picture and bio.
Halfway
March 16th, 2009 by jwargo
Well, I did it. I’m halfway through the book. I finished chapter 8 last night and I’m pretty excited. I’m at about 200 pages right now and per my publishing contract I’m supposed to deliver a book of approximately 400 pages. I also have 17 chapters planned for the book and the last couple of them are pretty short, so at 8 chapters, I’m at about half.
I guess in my mind I really didn’t think this thing was real until I’d gotten half of the book behind me. I’m enjoying working with the editor, I’m getting the help from RIM that I need and I should be able to get the first few chapters over for editing by next weekend. I’ve got a bunch of people reviewing the chapters and I am waiting for the last reviews before I send them over. Once the editing is done, the book will go up online at Safari Books Online and people can start reading it and pre-order copies.
I’m speaking at a Domino Developer and Administrator conference in Boston in April and the sponsors of that event want to promote my book on the Lotus User Group web site. So that’s cool.
One of my best friends is an executive at IBM and he’s asked for permission to write the forward for the book, that’s exciting too
Wet Dryer
March 12th, 2009 by jwargo
We have this interesting problem with our dryer vent. The window well where it comes out is in a window well that tends to get a lot of water in a heavy rain. Sometimes, not very often, rain water fills up the window well and runs down the vent pipe into the dryer. We’ve taken the step sometimes when heavy rain is expected to pull the dryer away from the wall and disconnect the vent.
Last week when we had all of the rain, I actually found rain water (mud actually) in the dryer drum. It was full of clothes at the time, so I ended up with a bunch of muddy, wet clothes. We hired someone to take a look at the dryer; water had never gotten that high before. When he took it apart, there was no water in the dryer base, it was all in the drum. What happened was the mud came down the vent pipe, through the blower and out into the drum. The seals were tight enough that there was a very clear path for the water to go and we had no damage to the dryer. Weird.
Every night
March 12th, 2009 by jwargo
Lots of rain the other night
March 10th, 2009 by jwargo
More expected today. Flooding everywhere. It’s amazing to see how much dirt is getting washed away everywhere. Woke up the other morning to find several incnes of mud in my dryer. The window well fills up and it flows down the vent into my dryer. Repair man comes this morning, we’ll see if the dryer is toast (I’m sure it is, Anna’s not convinced).
Growing Up!
March 10th, 2009 by jwargo
I went to the gym this morning and at my desk at about 7 getting caught up on email (and doing a little with the book). I took a shower and was back at my desk to start work on my real job. I heard some noise upstairs and thought Anna was up but it turned out to be Elizabeth. She’d gotten a chair and climbed up and got her cereal (multi-grain Cherios) and had her bowl full and had gotten a spoon. I helped her with the milk although if I had not come up, she definately would have been able to get it herself.
My babies are growing up.