Tonight the kids finished my mom and Marks Christmas presents. I'll post pictures of them after they give them to the grandparents. They turned out really good. Nikki is taking Mark to the store to pick out some things for people on Wednesday, but other than that I think we
Today we picked up Mark who had been at his dad's over the weekend. Then we headed up to my Dad's house for Christmas. My dad and Vickie are headed to Montana for the rest of the month, so we all decided to celebrate a little early. For Christmas Lunch/
I was able to shake all of the bugs out of my code. There were some things I didn't expect in the webpage I was scrapping that tripped me up, but were easy to overcome. One, I was looking for a next page div tag. Apparently they also named their
I've been writing a web scrapper for a site that will give me sailboat prices. I want to track them over time to see when the best time of the year is. I finally was able to get the data dumping to a mongodb instance. There are still a few
Today was Nikki's Dad's Birthday. Usually we do dinner, but with how busy everything was this year Nikki actually took him out to lunch. Then in the evening we went over to eat some cheesecake to celebrate. Duke got his haircut today. He actually did really good. Usually you can
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Strings are one of the basic data types used in any programming language. Whether displaying text to a user or gathering input, strings will likely be part of that program. Strings are part of one of the first programs that everyone rights, "Hello World!" From Hello World, new programmers quickly
Today we worked on Christmas gifts from the kids to the Grandparents. I won't give details here, but it was a lot of fun, and the one that's finished turned out great. The other one needs more work. Also we have two more to do, and I have some great
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A more detailed look at a beginning c# Hello World application. Introduction: There are plenty of tutorials in c# about doing a "Hello World" application, this is likely one of the first applications that you will ever develop when learning. Creating this software covers installing the software, and the basics
Today I had a work Christmas lunch. Most everyone works remotely on my team, but everyone lives within a semi-reasonable drive to get to Salt Lake. So we don't see each other a lot, but it's nice to catch up when we do. We met at Hu Hut, which is
This evening we met up with Nikki's cousin, his wife, and their son at the Layton lights. Sarah and John came along with us. Layton has free lights set up at the Layton Commons park. It only takes about 45 minutes to walk through, and we usually go at least
Nikki and I slept in a bit, and the kids played. I'm still kicking my cold, feeling better but not 100% yet, so the extra sleep helps. After getting up we started cleaning. I started with laundry and the downstairs, both of which really needed it. I have kept up
I was closing in on posting every day for four months, but I had a hiccup a week ago. I rebooted the server and it didn't come up correctly. So I decided I needed better backups. I bought a 2TB USB drive and went to set it up this morning.
Mark went to his dad's this afternoon for a visit. We decided to take a trip down to Salt Lake City on the front runner and meet him, see some Christmas lights, and do some ice skating. Before we left we cooked up the homemade noodles I made the night