Eating and watching television at the same time is seldom done at my house. It must be fun, though, because Audrey lets her stuffed animals do it.
Elliot is six today! It has been a big year. Probably the biggest thing is kindergarten which he loves. He is getting to be a big kid but he definitely still has his little kid moments.
Audrey is 4 today. It has been great year. She has grown so much since her last birthday. (But she still likes chocolate cake.)
Elliot started kindergarten last week. So far things are going pretty well. He likes learning new things and he seems smitten with his teacher. One day last week was “his favorite day of kindergarten” because they “did math”. I am pretty sure Elliot, and the other kids, are going to have a good year. The parents [...]
I am on the job market again. If you needs some help exposing your applications functionality via REST web APIs, we should talk. If you need some assistance developing, deploying and managing a Ruby application, I have the skills you need. If you need someone that can learn your code base and your business processes, I [...]
Happy Birthday Elliot! Elliot is five today. He is getting to be a very big boy now. Last Saturday I took him to Elitch Gardens. We spent a great six hours playing. You cannot go wrong with a day of sugar, video games and rides. He is big enough to ride quite a few rides there. [...]
Happy third birthday Audrey! We had a great day today. First, we got up late – well, I did anyway, and Elliot and Audrey played together nicely while I caught a few extra Zs – and opened presents. The red headed Cabbage Patch doll is the favorite as of this evening, but the Lego were [...]
At the pool the other day Audrey slipped off a ledge she was standing on and fell into the deep water. Her head went under water for maybe ten seconds before I was able to get to her. No sooner does she catch her breath than she says “You were going to let me dead1”, [...]
I am no longer with Gnip. Which means that am available for other opportunities. I know a fair bit about REST, HTTP, web services, extensible system design and scalable architecture. I like agile (small a) processes, Behavior (or test) driven development and dynamic languages. I am also pretty good at designing data interchange formats in JSON and XML. [...]
I have been battling the sprinkler system in my front yard for a while now. I spend a good part of last weekend working on it only to have completion of the project ripped from my grasp by a burst pipe (and my lack of competence in sprinkler systems). Today, however, I am triumphant. Here is [...]
My name is Peter Williams. I am a father and software developer. (I do a few other things, of course, but family and software are what I am most passionate about.) This blog is primarily a place where I can rant without scaring too many people, but occasionally I record things of interest to my family here.
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