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Two years ago, I had the opportunity to take on a unique challenge outside of my usual software development work in the name of school safety. I was asked by Texas Defense Force Security to create a commercial promoting their School Officer Program. The program teams volunteer private security officers recruited from the local community and local law enforcement agencies to provide a safe and secure learning environment for students.
Read more: Promoting School Safety with Texas Defense Force Security
Our first time coming to Edom for fireworks. For the past 5 years I've been helping the Whitton Fire Department put on their show, but the show was cancelled this year. I don't often get to watch the show, it was nice!
Oh my goodness - I ran across some old hard drives and decided to take a peek at their contents before sending them to be recycled. I'm glad that I did! I found some things that I thought were gone forever!
Documentation and links related to my JoomlaDay Texas 2019 presentation.
September 28th, I'll be in Austin speaking at Joomladay Texas. My topic is "Scaling Joomla", and I'll be going over the types of scaling (vertical and horizontal) as well as myths surrounding "the cloud".
I'll be using a portable cluster in the presentation to illustrate some of the benefits of horizontal scaling, as well as the pitfalls.
It should be fun. I'm bringing cookies for my audience.
I was watching a YouTube video from Anton Petrov about the Hubble Legacy Field image that crashed his computer, and I thought it might be nice to provide a version that can be browsed and zoomed and won't break your computer.
Read more: Hubble Legacy Field (without crashing your computer)
Some fun stuff I found on TeeSpring - enjoy!
I've been writing Joomla extensions for a long time; something like 10 years. I'm no stranger to extensions that I write having their functionality absorbed into the Joomla core. I expect it.