Fall 09 Leaves, Carnivals, and Pumpkins
Well Fall is upon us again. My wife loves Fall and I have to say I like it as well. Not to cold, not to hot, pretty colors, and fun activities is how i’d describe the season.
This year we have tried to start setting traditions with Daniel like pumpkin carving, hay rides, and going to carnivals. We have had a lot of fun this year and I can’t wait for winter.
I bet we are going to be in for a very cold and hopefully snowy winter this winter. The temperatures here in Madison have been much cooler than the norm already and we have had frost several times.
I hope you and your family are enjoying this season as much as we are. If your not your more than welcome to join us in Madison this Friday for the towns Halloween festival.
Below are various pictures taken during this season.
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- Pumpkin Carving Results
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- The Wife Poking Holes
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- The Crew hard at work
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- Daniels Ride
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- Nasty Boys
CSUC09 Day 2 and 3
Cascade Server is a very capable CMS. when I went down to Atlanta I was under the impression that Cascade was wordpress with file management. Now I know that it is much more. Being code agnostic is pretty impressive but cascade’s real power is the ability to merry XML data definitions to XSLT stylesheets and translate that into compiled static pages. I learned a lot in my two days in Atlanta. Mostly from the other users at the conference… especially the boys from the University of Montana and the Canadian’s (University of Saskatchewan). The entire conference was a blast. The drive home was a different matter.
In my last post I mentioned going through Nantahala and how it was worth the extra time it took. well I wish I could say that it was extra time. I took the interstate on the way back and that turned out to be a huge mistake. I got stuck in traffic in Atlanta for two hours, drove across two states, and then got stuck in traffic in Charlotte for two hours. so total drive time was about 9-10 hours versus the 7 it took me to get down there. needless to say if I go back I’ll be taking the route in my previous post, down HWY 19.
Again great time meeting people and learning about higher ed web development.
David Bates
