Keeping busy.

August 12th, 2007

So, since the last post I’ve:

• Sold our house in Mississauga, on the first day it went on the market!  (Ok, Heather handled most of that one.)
• Flown to England.
•  Set up a company.
• Started contracting for a client in Cambridge.

So life has been a little busy for a while.  I spent a while going through the usual rigmarole of calling recruiters, editing CVs and so on, and the end result is that I’ll spend the next 30 weeks working for NCipher, a cryptographic company based in Cambridge.  It’s a good working environment, lots of interesting and very bright people to work with, and Cambridge is quite a nice little town.

Heather and the girls will be flying out to the UK at the end of the month, and probably staying with my parents.

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Isn’t it nice when your tools just work…

June 19th, 2007

I can’t say enough good things about Firebug.  It’s been an absolute godsend for me while putting together this TurboGears project.  Every last little bit of communication between the browser and the server can be examined and profiled, every bit of html and css can be identified, queried, and even modified, right in the browser.   I now can’t imagine trying to debug an AJAX app without it.

As far as I know, the author is basically one guy working in his spare time.  I’m not sure if this is a testament to the power of open source, or the strength of the underlying mozilla platform, or what, but I’m once again amazed that the open source world can produce tools of this caliber and make them available for free.

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