Jared Ottley

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Entries from December 2007

How I work these days

December 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Small enough not to stop work.
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Another Design Tool

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Saw this at northtemple.com.  Shared the link with the other Alfresco Solutions Engineers.  One of them shared back another tool, XRAY.
Ah, the power of javascript.
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Introducing - Wii WhiteBoard

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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Geek Family Christmas

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments

In July, Adrienne and I were up in Park City, for a weekend without the kids.  We stopped at a bookstore…yes we like books…and found a LEGO advent calendar.

It has been a big hit with the kids.  One that I hope will become a family tradition.

What are things that you do during the holidays, to [...]

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Career Goal

December 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

From Rands In Repose:
Here is an audacious goal for your resume: to get you to a point in your career where you no longer need a resume. It’s the point that in your chosen industry people know who you are and what you are capable of. And they want you doing it at their companies. [...]

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What is in a name…

December 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

When we started discussing names for Parker we ran through a bunch. We tried to figure out if we could continue on the mnemonic device that we stumbled upon with our kids names, TACOS (if you go by what we call them) or JACOB (if you go by given names): Taylor, Andrew, Cameron, Olivia, [...]

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More Alfresco Training

December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is short notice, but we have another Alfresco training class this month.  This will be an excellent class, getting down into the details of designing content models, configuring the web client and a bonus section on configuring custom dashlets (Dashlets are like portlets on the My Alfresco Dashboard).   The 2-day class will be [...]

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Parker: Day 2

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Another good day.  It started a little off, Parker is severely anemic.  They want to avoid a transfusion, because of the complications that could accompany it.  Double this with Adrienne also being anemic.  She received another two units of blood.  That helped her perk right up.
Parker’s pediatrician thinks that he could be coming home soon.  [...]

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Parker: Day 1

December 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

It has been a great day for Parker (and Adrienne). Parker was taken off of the CPAP machine this morning. He is breathing on his own and doing well. He is eating (through a tube) and keeping it down. Tomorrow his pediatrician will take over his care from the neonatologist. [...]

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Parker Forrest Ottley

December 2nd, 2007 · 6 Comments

Around Noon today (Sunday, Dec 2) I took Adrienne (34 almost 35 weeks pregnant) to the hospital with abdominal pain.
At about 1:35 pm she gave birth to Parker Forrest. We know that he is 6 lbs., but not his length yet.
First Mom: Adrienne’s uterus ruptured and her placenta and the baby had [...]

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