One of our Pop-Art-Gives-Back-To-The-Community clients wants to implement some simple online donation services on their website. So, I was flipping through a PDF file from PayPal using my Foxit Reader and I noticed this little phrase at the top of a page:

They're giving me complementary technical documenation! No orange juice or bagel, but the doc is categorized and complete.

I saw another funny part on the PayPal site. The link to the PDF file says it requires (my emphasis) Adobe Acrobat to read it. Ha! I must be flaunting the rules with my Foxit reader; breaking the law! breaking the law!

By the way, I've had great experiences with Foxit up until yesterday. One of our black turtleneck shirt wearing designers created a PDF version of a client proposal. When I opened it in Foxit, some large background images flashed for a second, then the text content appeared without much styling. Each page behaved this way. When I opened it in Adobe Acrobat, the full beautiful proposal displayed great with background and content. Huh. I'm not sure if the designer was leveraging some custom Adobe feature or if Foxit was the culprit; it was the first and only time I didn't get parity though.

Jason Mauer's blog let me know that Seattle Code Camp is coming up at the end of the month! Ack!

I'm thinking about heading up with my buddy Kelly. I told myself at the Portland Code camp, I said "Self," that's what I call myself, "you should present at the next code camp." Well, this is the next one, but its right around the corner!

I could do the DotNetNuke presentation, but seeing as how they just incorporated combined with their proximity to Seattle, there's a good probability that a DNN big shot will be there doing a far better show than I could. I was very impressed at the last Portland Code Camp at the quality of the "simple" talks. Things that you should already know, but are fun and refreshing to go over again. For example, the Subversion discussion was really well attended and you always end up learning some new trick or insight. I love that.

I'll put my thinking hat on and see what I come up with.

No matter how complex the Internet becomes, it refreshing to see that right and wrong are still easy to decipher. Here's the lesson that Six Apart has to pay for.

I just upgraded to the latest version of dasBlog. The Wife started grading AP Statistics papers with her sister (in town from Odessa Street of Paris, France) and I sat down on the couch to see how the new version works out. Ten minutes later, I've made the last file edit and the final FTP bits travel across the wire. Pretty simple stuff to upgrade!

I picked a new theme and found a photo to crop and added the oil painting effect. I thought I'd pick a familar sight; a photo of me surfing the web on my Treo. Just by messing around in these few brief minutes, I can see the blog engine has a few quirks that need some work. I'm going to try really hard to be a contributer in the next several weeks. I've been looking and the code though; its a little intimidating. Smells like an opportunity to learn!

The other day I fired up TortoiseSVN and it politely informed me that I might enjoy the latest release.

Hurrah!