I am proud to announce the birth of our second child. On January 20th 2010 @ 4:11pm Langston Hope Barnes was born and weighed in at 7 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches long.
Our first was born just 13 months ago so we have our hands full now. 
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I know I haven’t made any posts lately but the past month I have been working on a new home office. Since I now have one kid and another due any day we are running out of room fast. I would have never imagined how much extra STUFF comes with a kid.
Originally I had planned to do a full room addition to the house but with out any construction knowledge and running into the same type of things as Boyink did I decided it was just to much hassle.
What I did was shopped around for a pre-made utility building and had them put a wall dividing it into two sections. The original building was one 14×28 room and now I have two 14×14 rooms. One side was turned into an office and the other will be used for storage. [click to continue…]
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One of the best things about working with TextMate is the powerful bundle system it includes. I have been using it a lot lately with the CodeIgniter bundle. Here are two that are worth looking at:
Either one of those cover pretty much everything except the automatic creation of models and controllers. Since models and controllers require you to have the class name the same as the file name it would make sense and be a lot easier to just have this automatically happen when you call the bundle.
For my projects I created a new command that would do this automatically for you. Here is how I did it. [click to continue…]
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This is just a quick update to let every one know I am in the process of moving all the code on this site over to github. The main reason for this is because it is a whole lot easier to create repositories for each different line of code I have. And the fact that git seems pretty awesome to work with.
Most of you want see any difference as the code will still remain the same but will allow me to better track each individual project. Plus I will no longer be sharing one single Google Code repository as I am now. I hated setting it up this way and has been a pain to manage. The reason I initially went with one repository was because I didn’t see the need to go through all the steps to create a whole bunch when some of my releases are just one or two files.
That is where github is so nice. Now it is a simple as adding the name then committing. If you are interesting in using git for your own work I highly recommend checking out this git article from nettuts.
As I learn more about it myself I am sure I will write a few tips that I come across but the basics are pretty simple as long as you follow the instructions. If any one is a git user please leave a comment with any tips or tutorials that you have found useful.
Happy Coding!
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This past April, the owner of a local bicycle store was paralyzed in a motorcycle wreck. He had stopped behind a dump truck, waiting for the car ahead of it to turn left. The person driving the jeep behind him failed to stop and hit him from behind. More info >>
He was airlifted to a local hospital where he spent the next 12 weeks having multiple surgeries and getting to a point where he could get back home. The hospital stay alone cost over $200,000. This doesn’t include the operations, rehabilitation, medicine, etc. From what I understand, he passed $1M months ago.
The driver of the jeep was underinsured. The amount the Cherry’s owe is staggering. Through all this, Bill is still his same old self. He’s got an amazing attitude.
This afternoon at four o’ clock, there’s an auction in our town to raise money for the Cherry’s. Local merchants have donated a variety of items to be bid on. Blair and I want to participate. So, here it is -
What we’re auctioning:
Reply to this forum thread with the amount you would like to offer for the license and services above. Current bid is $200 $500 $600.
The auction ends at 5p.m. Eastern, October 15th.
All monies collected from the winning bidder will be sent to the Cherry’s.
If you’re not interested in bidding but would still like to make a donation, please visit Belmont Bicycles and click on the Donate button there.
THANK YOU!!!!
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As many of the readers here probably know I like to change themes. So far this is my forth revision just this year. This time around I decided to go back to a template I picked up from ThemeForest and use the Thesis WordPress framework.
I have been hearing how great Thesis is and from all the testimonials is the reason I decided to go with it. Plus they offer a developer license which I can use on some of my other sites.
For those using Thesis or are interested in it here is a list of resources that I found most beneficial:
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