Hamilton Happenings

You know that feeling when you and your significant other no longer have jobs? It's  official . Both Melissa and I quit. Today was our last day of work for both of us. Well I guess Melissa still has a few hours left in her shift. But I clocked out at noon. Now that we aren't working, we plan on celebrating with some Ramen Noodle soup. Maybe we'll splurge and eat some hotdogs. I think Channing knows he's going to have to step up to contribute. Just a little bit ago he came inside, grabbed his backpack of tools, and headed outside to start working on his bike. Somebody has to bring home the bacon (although he refuses to eat bacon...or anything that isn't bread really). There are a lot of things that I'm thankful for from my experiences at Netmark. Over the last 2.5 years I explored a lot of new areas of technology. Learned a lot about the type of manager that I need & that I need to be. I broke some bad programming habits, and developed...

At work, I've been trying to learn a new programming languages. It works with SVGs (scalable vector graphics) to display data dynamically. It's called D3.js - it's a Javascript library . It's pretty neat, the browser draws  interactive graphs for you on the fly. I'm reading  a book to help me with this. The author of the book (or rather PDF) keeps saying things like "Now the astute among you will have noticed..." The first couple times he said that, I thought "Hey, wait I'm astute. But I didn't notice that." The book had offended me! A few pages later, he said it again. But I had noticed what he was saying. I felt validated & complimented. I realized an electronic programming document was playing games with my emotions. Guess it's a sign that I'm becoming more nerdy. If this persists, I'll no longer have a need for human interaction... Anyways, here is an example of something that I made. The sort button allows you...