June 23rd, 2008 - Welcome to my site (A work in progress. Still.)
Unfortunately, I'm generally so busy that I never seem to have time to update my site.
A couple of exciting things happened recently. Firstly, some of my photography will be on display at the Village Coffee Roastery in Scottsdale. (corner of Hayden and Via De Ventura). I've been going there for years because they have the best coffee I've ever had. Secondly, I've just completed phase two of the Extreme Arizona website, which is a complete re-implementation of the site with a lot of additional features.
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June 23rd, 2008 - Featured Site
Extreme Arizona conducts tours in the Arizona desert, and also rents ATVs and motorcycles, as well as personal watercraft. They had a need to provide their customers with information about the available vehicles, and produce rental estimates based on customer selections. The site was constructed with PHP, MySQL and AJAX, and features a management console to allow self-maintenance of prices, page text and more. I've just completed phase two and am in the process of rolling out the new site. I will update this section soon.
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June 25th, 2008 - Village Coffee Roastery - Photos
The Village Coffee Roastery is an independent coffee house in Scottsdale. We started going there in 2004 and found that they acquire and roast their own beans in-house and produce marvelous coffees, and we have been buying our beans there ever since. Recently the owner, Craig Sellman retired and sold the business to Lisa (last name escapes me at the moment, I'll update soon). Lisa has made a number of subtle changes to the place, paint, artwork, lighting that really make it much more inviting. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable, and I have become somewhat of an evangelist at my company for the place, because the coffee is just so good. Most importantly (to me), recently I asked Lisa if I could display some of my photos and she agreed. My advice to you is to go there immediately, have an espresso, and check out the artwork...
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July 15th, 2007 - Fountain Hills Hourly Weather Chart
The chart is based on data collected from NOAA's National Weather Service page. Specifically the data is from Scottsdale Municipal Airport (KDSL) which is the closest airport to Fountain Hills. I have a script that grabs the XML feed from their site every hour and stores the information in a database. The purpose I had in mind when producing this page was to create a useful demonstration of data collection from XML feeds and conversion of that information into a chart or other useful visualization.
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July 5th, 2007 - My Image Gallery
A collection of photos from the last 5 years. A fairly mixed bag of shots including fireworks, flowers, and things that are fuzzy. My photos located on Google's Picasa web site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 License. While most of the images on my site are original works, some of the images are owned by others, so please ask before using.