life with a little pizzazz
Some photos from our recent visit to the Oregon Coast. This summer we focused on the coast starting from Newport and heading south.
We also started collecting lighthouse stamps in our very own Lighthouse passport. Our passport now includes stamps from six Oregon lighthouses.
So I’m a matchmaker, I thought for sure I’d be a wallflower. Well at least I know my mojo and am doing my part to promote the new Yahoo! home pages.
Picked a few of our mini first harvest of figs tonight. These are the teasers for the onslaught of figs we’ll see in October.
The Panther mascot at Portland Community College is really strutting his stuff as of late. He’s got a new video on YouTube.com and is pawing the latest happenings into Twitter. This is quite a break from the reclusive behavior I had been accustomed to from our Panther. Once rarely seen in the wilds on campus, Poppe is now spotted commonly on campus and across the Web.
Poppe Panther and his brethren form a proud ink of panthers to be mascots of schools. While I am aware of professional and university panther mascots, I was not aware of the population of panthers touting the mission of community colleges.
As I watered the garden hummingbirds danced in the spray catching droplets. A refreshing way for all to start the day.
The first volume of The Chronicles of Goodfoot & Toaster: The Misunderstood Union is now available for the world. This soon-to-be cult classic tried in vain to avoid being posted online but finally relented to the throngs awaiting its release. The Misunderstood Union is loosely based upon actual events in the lives of our main characters.
(The Chronicles of Goodfoot and Toaster is a wedding card produced by a father-daughter team one fun afternoon.)
This is the money you could have saved going with Geico!
Daughter is either quite creative, watching too much TV or both.
Direct from phone to you.
Just in from cleaning gutters. The rain stopped as I went out to work and I have no ladder stories — a wonderful evening.
I was determined to go out due to the large amount of water pouring out of the clogged gutters. Based on the day we’ve had and the conditions as I went to change into rain gear, I expected to get very wet. Instead the world was kind to me and provided very nice weather for this task. Still not a fun way to spend an evening.
Our home was filled with the wonderful aroma of Paska bread. A quick post here with some photos for you, but now we must leave to enjoy the second loaf.
This session presented the technical architecture and demonstrations for Luminis 5. In my eyes Luminis 5 is a product architected so differently from Luminis 4 that it almost represents a new product. Asked about release dates, the product technical architect deferred to the product manager who relayed the planned beta at the end of 2009 without a firm general release date in 2010.
The architecture is very framework based with all the Java and other keywords thrown in. The development environment is more agile with regular builds and ongoing unit and performance testing. Keywords and architectural strategies:
With the new Luminis 5 framework and TerraCotta cluster management, configman can be deprecated and settings modifications can be pushed to all portal notes without the need for a restart. The demo showed live changes in the admin node equivalent to a configman setting that immediately took affect in the user nodes.
The development team is performing regular performance testing to watch for performance trends as Luminis 5 evolves.
Discussing future migrations to Luminis 5, there was discussion of an ETL (Extract, Translate, Load) based migration model. This would include extracts to XML, translation and then load to the new systems. This methodology would be a vast improvement over the migration model clients are still suffering when going from Luminis III to Luminis 4.
Group and Course Tools are replaced by Community. Accessing a My Communities tab presents a series of channels making up a community. Selecting a group in a separate channel updates a collection of other channels such as community photos, music and other content. Asked about migrating Luminis 4 groups the answer came back that “we haven’t, but we can.”
