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Day 3 of Drupalcon just wrapped up. I'd definitely have to say that I enjoyed today the most. I'm not sure if it was the sessions, just knowing more people, sleeping in this morning (soooo nice), but I just really enjoyed today.

I've learned a few lessons while I've been here at Drupalcon. The first lesson is that I need to blog more, a LOT more. I don't really blog because I don't have a lot of extra time and I honestly don't think much of what I do. I help a lot of open source projects because I enjoy it, not for the glory. However, now that I've launched my own company based upon consulting in the open source world, I definitely need to start telling the world more about what I do.  read more »

The past few months have brought many changes to my life. As I've blogged about before, I am a new father!!! My daughter was born in December 2007. In addition, today I'm announcing that I have founded a new consulting company, A Mountain Top, LLC, and will be leaving the ranks of Crowd Favorite.

This is an exciting opportunity for me. Alex has been very gracious and we are parting as friends.

A Mountain Top, LLC will be focused on jQuery, Qcodo and Drupal. If you have a project, or are thinking of starting a project using any of these technologies, we'd love to hear from you!

Parenthood Update
It finally happened!!! As I eluded to previously, I've finally become a father. My beautiful baby girl arrived over the weekend and is completely perfect.

Refresh Denver Rescheduled
Unfortunately, (although I personally didn't mind, ), I wasn't able to make it to the Refresh Denver meeting Monday night to give my talk about jQuery. I heard several people showed up just to hear about jQuery, and I do apologize for letting them down. Matt has graciously rescheduled my talk for February.

jQuery call for help
As I was killing time last week, I got caught up on some of my work with the jQuery project. Turns out, I was promoted and didn't even know it. I'm now the only contributor, besides John, who's helping maintain the jQuery.com website. If you've got experience with system administration on the Linux platform and would like to help, please contact me.

Parenthood and Unplugging Update
About a month back, I wrote a post about my grandiose plans to unplug from the net in preparation for parenthood. I thought it'd be fun to post a quick update on how I've been doing. In one word, "utter failure". Ok, that was two words, but I needed two words to get my point across.

Given that I only have two days of parenthood under my belt now, I do have two observations. One, trying to manifest the discipline for parenthood before it actually happened only created extra stress because I set my life stage to 'Parent' while still living like 'No Kids'. Second, the moment I held that baby in my arms the first time, I was confident I'll have no problem unplugging in the future.

While doing some work on the JQuery Plugins site today, I needed to use rsync over ssh. The ssh daemon on the remote server runs on a non-standard port, and all the port related options to rsync only change settings if you're running the rsync-daemon.

After some searching, the man page of rsync finally offered a solution:

Passing the port parameter to ssh with the -e option worked like a charm.

This is why Unix rocks.

I'll be speaking at the upcoming meeting of Refresh Denver on December 17th. The topic of the night will be "A jQuery Introduction, with Drupal and Qcodo".

If you're in the area, we'd love to have you attend. Matt and Chip have done a great job with the Refresh group. I was able to attend the November meeting and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The following is a tutorial on creating a custom QForm Control. QForms is a forms library and are a component of the Qcodo framework. Additionally, this control makes use of the excellent jQuery library and the SpinBox Control Plugin.

Overview
In this tutorial I lay out the steps necessary to create a new QControl. The control is very simple, but very useful. The control utilizes javascript to create a spin box, something you'd typically see in any GUI based toolkit.

For an example of the finished product, take a look at the control demonstration page.  read more »