A Yankee in Texas

For the past few days I have been trying to figure out an issue we were having with one of the scripts that we had written for a work project. At Jaduka Eddie and I are the two Application Developers. The goal is that eventually we will both have equal skill sets but for now we’ve both basically gone with what we know best. Eddie is handling anything client side like Java Script, CSS, HTML and such. I have been taking care of all the server side scripting with PHP and SQL. Since the error fell on my side of the coding fence I poured myself in to fixing it.

I won’t go in to all the gory details, for many reasons, but mainly not to bore you. In the end I asked for some help and Eddie was glad to offer me a hand. He latched on to an issue I had noticed yesterday, but dismissed as it had seemed to of disappeared after I had rewritten some code. However when Eddie downloaded my code he was still seeing the error. As it turns out Eddie was on to the right thing. A few corrections and everything was running peachy. The worst part was the error was being caused by some other code I had written that was apparently a bit “buggy”.

Can I have my pie ala-mode?

– Jeremy

Saturday: Nicole and got up early, ran some errands and headed to Jones Beach for the air show. We brought our folding chairs and cooler full of beverages. The air show was 5 hours long and the breeze off the ocean made a hot day bearable. There were many very cool military and non-military aircraft. Unfortunately the camera was dead from the Small Arms Dealer show a few days before. Nicole had a good time. She really liked the jets flying over. I think we will be attending more air shows in the future.

After the air show we went directly to Nicole’s parents apartment. We had some dinner and dessert. We sat around chatting till very late and by the time we got home I was exhausted.

Sunday: I honestly don’t remember what I did on Sunday. I am sure it wasn’t much as I was tired and I got a pretty decent sun burn on the tops of my feet. Nicole tried to get me to put more sunscreen on the tops of my feet, but I refused saying they were fine and in the end I paid the price.

Monday: We slept in a bit. Then we got up and went to breakfast. After breakfast I went to the bookstore to pick up a book on Object Oriented Programming with PHP for work. After we hit the bookstore we picked up Nicole’s Mom and took her to her fathers grave. He was a WWII vet and is buried in the National Cemetery on Long Island. They dropped me off at home and then they went to the Sayville Beach.

That’s pretty much my Holiday Weekend in a nutshell. I hope everyone had a fun and safe weekend.

– Jeremy

I took a couple videos at the Small Arms Dealer show last week.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfk6SIhgwM[/youtube]

I am sorry the audio sucks. The P.A. at this particular show was even more sucky than usual for a punk show.

Enjoy…

– Jeremy

I apologize for being such a slacker. I haven’t updated much in the past week. I am still trying to get adjusted to working from home. It gives life a whole new rhythm. You kind of have to force yourself to break up you day since there are no clearly defined breaking points. I guess my point is if you let them days can kind or blur together.

– Jeremy

To work from home I need to do what is known as tunneling. Basically all it means is you are creating a secure digital connection in to a network. Anyway the whole process might as well be magic to me, but for most of the day I was unable to tunnel in so I couldn’t get to the code I needed to work on. All was not lost I did however get some training on how to do an expense report. Which will come in handy getting reimbursed for my airfare to Austin.

Anyway things are going good. I think I am going to start exercising again and then get back on a healthier diet. Exercise is the hardest part for me to keep consistent at so I am going to start with that. Even though I have some goals in mind this time around I plan not to be as demanding of myself. Wish me luck!

– Jeremy

Sorry for the lack updates, but what can I say life gets crazy from time to time. I am now safely back in NY. I had a great time in Austin and I am really enjoying the new job. I finally feel the urge once again to push myself to learn more and get better as a web programmer.

I got the laundry done today. Tomorrow I need to hit the grocery store. That will have to wait till Nicole gets home since her car decided it needed to go to the mechanic. (The check engine light came on the other day.) Hopefully I can find something to eat for lunch around here.

I promise to update more this week since things have settled down a bit.

– Jeremy