John Gordon

I always lose my build notification sounds when rebuilding a laptop. Here, for posterity, are some I've been using since my last rebuild. Download the zipped files here.

We had the annual block party last weekend. I put together a little ditty to commemorate it. If you hate piñatas, you'll love this video.

You have to click to the content of the blog entry to see this thing in action.

Okay, this is just shameless filler on my blog so it doesn't appear stale. The cute bit's at the end of the video.

As other folks have tried to do, I'm trying to reduce the 80MB bulk of Axis2 to keep my already bloated client code as trim as possible. For whatever reason, be it that Axis2 is used in so many different ways, I wasn't able to find what the minimum would be for a client using xml beans as the binding framework. After some digging, this is what I got:

Funny thing, but I noticed a few months ago that my site was throwing a syntax error when trying to bring up any page. I wasn't too worried about it, thinking that it was some upgrade Dreamhost had done on my hosting server; I'd have to create a trouble ticket and get it resolved. I was wrong, I'd been hacked!

We did some sledding today to celebrate our neighbour, Luc's, birthday party. Even shot a little video!

A prospective client asked for a code demo and I'm happy to oblige. I put together a simple web application that manages job listings. It's quite simple: list, create, retrieve, update and delete are all supported. the idea is to show:

A) I know what I'm doing
B) I can write Java and .Net software
C) I'm ready for anything. Bring it on

granted, I got a little carried away with that last point.

The code is written in Java 1.5 and the Spring Framework (MVC) 2.5 (complete with 2.5's MVC annotations configuration.)

Our family pics came in the other day. Grace and Charlie were thrilled to have all the attention pored on them. I'd show you the family pics with Nicole and me but doing that reminds me of that line from Apocalypse Now: "...the horror.....the horror..."

For best printing, download the original image at the bottom of this page.

As a member of the town counsel in Bethany Beach, Delaware, my Dad had the opportunity to meet Joe The Plumber today. While Dad didn't vote for Biden, that's okay, all of his offspring did!