Sproutcode

…are okay. We all catch up to ourselves eventually. Excuse my personal notes

• Integrate this site with twitter and facebook in some reasonable fashion.
• Join LinkedIn?
• Send more resumes…
• Something else I’m forgetting.
• Install CentOS in vm (again) – also recently switched from ubuntu to fedora just to see. I had attended a job fair for the Blue Cross and it seems knowing the Redhat (and Oracle App Server) environments will be useful knowledge to have. (fingers crossed for the interview)
• More jquery goodness to spiff up this site?

I just wanted to say that any random person from the past or not so past who happens to find this site is welcome to drop me a line.

Life is fascinating… and mostly weird

I need to add my Resume to this site – I wonder what the best format is for its online incarnation? Probably depends on who you ask.

Update demos! I have a substantial JavaEE shopping cart demo that needs to be re-hosted and polished.

There is also a PHP based (specifically cakePHP) web application I would like to demo that was built as a working (mostly) prototype for the Edmonton Historical Board. They asked that it be gpl so I plan to continue work on my copy and I’ll upload the sources and a hosted version with test data as soon as time permits.

Trying to make the most of it…

I started new courses this week: Project Management/Career Development and Oracle.  Should be interesting.

I’m trying to decide whether to work on the oracle labs at home via VPN + VNC or install Oracle on my own laptop (ubuntu -64bit).  I had no trouble in a previous semester getting the MySQL and JavaEE stack up and running locally, which saved me a lot of hassle while developing.  Oracle and form builder shouldn’t be any worse should they?  Doesn’t hurt to experiment.

UPDATE – Oracle 10g and Sql developer work just fine after some initial config changes. I’m also done the first lab.

UPDATE II – The Oracle Development Suite proved to be too much of a pain to install in ubuntu. No deb package like there was for the database. I’ve set up a CentOS vm to see if I can get it all up and running there. I should probably just use the VPN connection to finish the homework. Or I can continue to mess with this…

Unfortunately, most of my posts remain in draft for far too long. One of these days soon, I’ll get things straight.

For now it remains stuck in my head.  This seems hardly fair.  What should I do? I have everything but the right words at the right time.

Another day to dwell in distractions:

• Wordpress needs updating.  Go figure.  Expect down time.  Maybe a lighter / more professional look to the theme as well.  I plan on placing my resume when I’m ready.
• I’ve setup tomcat on a FreeBSD server in an attempt to demo some of my more polished J2EE webapps built during a recent course taken @ NAIT.   Unfortunately, I’ve lost myself trying to connect tomcat to an exisiting apache setup.  I had not realized the need for a special connector such as mod_jk .    Hopefully it will work soon.

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What do you think of the look?  There is still a lot of extras to be themed, but the essentials are there.  I’ll probably be tweaking it for some time to come.

Can’t wait for the day I can use CSS drop shadows and rounding.

Oh and IE stinks.

My custom wordpress theme is almost done.  Hopefully.
No really, I promise.

The rebirth of this site will be fully realized soon enough.

Maybe I’ll add content this time around too!