One Year

The 16th was officially the first year of our life as the Peterman family being together in Colorado. What an amazing year it has been… more to write, but I’m flying to Texas 🙂

Macromedia + Adobe = SVG?

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a technology that has been a recommended standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for some time. Adobe has put a lot of effort into a plugin for various browsers and platforms that allows people to view SVG files in their browsers. Being a web based technology, it needs to be in your browser. However, there was this really nasty competing technology: Flash. However, if the two companies merge, we could have a beautiful new age on the web where the Flash plugin supports SVG so that it’s finally ubiquitous.

This is the hope that I hold for this merger: Standards compliance, ubiquity, and maybe, just maybe a slightly better chance for Adobe prices to come out of the stratosphere.

Firefox 1.03 and Web-FX’s Internet Explorer Emulation Code

If you use the Web-FX IE emulation code and users hit your site with Firefox 1.03… it’s not going to work. I don’t fully know what happened in the Firefox code but you can replace all instances of ‘this.[javascript object or parameter]’ within the extendEventObject function. Due to not being certain of legalities that are involved in posting corrections of others work I’m not going to include the corrected file. This library of code is also used in the coolbars2 code so you’ll need these changes for that as well. By my testing the changes are backward compatible to older versions of Firefox and Mozilla.

Hope this helps others, because it freaked me out 🙂

Sharing

This morning Abby shared her first toy with her little sibling in Jessica’s belly: she climbed into the bed and slid the toy under Jessica’s shirt onto her belly and declared, “Here baby. Here’s a toy for you.”

So What Does it Look Like?

We’ve been asked for pictures of our new home and here’s one that clips off the right hand part of the yard and which carefully displays the mailbox’s broken ‘Pick the Mail Up’ flag:
The House

There’s a fully finished basement that makes this house twice as big… in case you look at this and think, “Randy, that’s small looking.” I’ll have pictures of the inside after the 30th when we move in.

Getting Real… Most of the Time

In Getting Real: Ignore details early on Dan Boland of 37Signals, a reputable design and usability company that is breaking into the developer services market, shares about how important it is to rough out the details first and to not get bogged down by details. This is critical in most design and development situations. I’m going to warn of this one caveat: know your clients. If you’re going to build your own application, which is generally the focus of Dan’s article, you can work on the roughing out, and then get down to particulars and this would be a smart choice. However, I recently made the mistake of doing this on a client project and it did not get me any favor with the client. Because as we got closer to the release date they saw lots of features that were rough rather than fewer pretty features. We ended up nailing all of the needed features and they’re pretty polished, but it did not go how the client had expected. I learned a lesson in this and thought that others just might benenefit as well.

Happy Birthday Kelsey

Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law Kelsey who turned 15 years old today. This officially makes her not a little kid any more (aren’t you glad to know that Kels?) 15 is more than half my age, so there’s not much I can say other than when you’re twice my age, divided by two, take the square root, turn it on its side and see what happens whe you try to make a sandwich out of it. No, that’s not right…

Welcome Cora M. Nuzzi!

Cora M. Nuzzi was born today at 12:27 PM. She weighs 6 pounds even and she is 19 inches long! Erin and Tony, the parents are apparently doing well, though I think Erin had to go through more than Tony 😉 Congratulations Josh and Davis on your new little sister.

Abby’s First Ice Cream Cone

Also tonight Abby had her very first ice cream cone. She was very excited and the proceded to lick the ice cream all the way around the cone but not eat the cone. I kept telling her that it was like a cookie but it wasn’t until she couldn’t reach her tongue down the center of the cone to get more ice cream that she realized that she was going to have to actually eat the cone to get more ice cream. Then with great glee she announced, “I can eat the cone!” You try so hard as a parent, but sometimes its those scraped knees, broken hearts and deep ice cream cones that have to teach your kids a lesson 🙂