Tag: Travel
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Never miss a ballgame
As Tim Kurkjian famously said, “Never miss the opportunity to go to a baseball game. You might see something you’ve never seen before.” This week I’m in Asheville, NC. I’m very busy with my Securing Java Web Applications class while other issues keep coming up, but the bottom line is that the Asheville Tourists (the…
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Minor league baseball rocks
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. Fortunately, this is baseball season, so sometimes I get a chance to visit a park I’ve never been to before. Last week I was in Allentown, PA. Actually, that’s not quite true — I was actually in Schnecksville, PA, a small suburb of Allentown. It turns out that this…
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Quick Google Maps test
Google maps claims you can add a map to any web page in three clicks. I thought I’d give it a try here. I’m planning to build a mashup featuring all the places I go to teach classes, but I’ll start small. Here’s the code Google tells me to paste in here. View Larger Map…
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Brush with (semi-)greatness
This week I’m teaching an XML class in NYC. It’s actually a basic XML class along with some XML schema training, in order to help the client work with data coming from external sources. I’ll know more when the class starts tomorrow, but I expect to work with fairly sophisticated schemas. Since the class is…
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Lookin’ for Java in all the wrong Faces…
I have such a cool job. I was emailing one of my training company clients about doing an introductory web class (HTML, some JSP, etc) out in Colorado in November. I was all set to agree to it when I got a phone call from my contact there. “We found a local resource for that,”…
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Rumble, rumble (or so they tell me)
I’m in Winston-Salem, NC this week and next. I’m working on the Hibernate materials this evening with the NLCS game on in the background (top of the 8th, St. Louis leading the Mets 4 — 2). Every so often the TV beeps at me as the local station begins a slow crawler along the bottom.…
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Ajax in Amsterdam
You know what I hate? When I feel my phone vibrating on my hip and I’m not wearing my phone. This is my first time in Amsterdam. The training site is an IBM center, but I think this is just a room rental. I’m a sub to a sub to a sub again, so it’s…
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World Traveler
One of the cool things about this job is that every once in a while I get an email like this: —————————————— From: one of my training company clients To: Me Subject: Want to go to Europe next week for us? Would you like to go to Amsterdam next week to teach an Ajax class…
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If you can’t blog something nice…
… I suppose you shouldn’t blog anything at all. That means I won’t be discussing anything here about my latest airline experiences, especially my trip through Chicago with the flight delayed 5 1/2 hours and then ultimately cancelling without telling me. Nope, I’m SO not going there. (Other than to say I feel so much…
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Sometimes it all works out
I’ve had a couple of airline adventures this week. My class in Philadelphia ended early last Friday, so I went to the airport expecting to spend hours in the US Airways club. Not a bad thing, incidentally, since I had a lot of work to do. As it turned out, though, I was able to…