Jason Pearce

Yesterday, Jenny and I went the Nobelsville courthouse to apply for our marriage license. It’s just a few weeks away.

This is how Wonderware Central’s new website looks on an iPhone. Not too bad for a mobile device. Admittedly, the iPhone Safari browser renders many sites rather well.

After several months of work, I’m pleased to say that Wonderware Central launched its redesigned website today.

Many people were involved in this project, but I did most of the development and design.

This was my first time using the open source Joomla content management system. As such, it was also my first time developing a Joomla template. It didn’t take me too long to figure out and understand how Joomla and its templates work.

I based my design on the Yahoo YUI CSS framework. Joomla uses Mootools as the JavaScript framework, so I stuck with that. I also made use of several third-party extensions that have been developed for the Joomla CMS, which speed up my development and should make it easier to maintain the website in the long run.

This was a fun project to work on. So far, I’m receiving some good feedback from my coworkers, which is nice.

My bachelor party weekend in Las Vegas was good, but the flight home was a disaster.

Seated between Jenny and me was a mother and her two year old (named Jason).

The child started crying well before the plane finished boarding. We then had a mechanical problem and had to return to the gate. Worst of all, 30 minutes after take off he vomits, hitting both of us but mostly Jenny.

We had three more hours left into the flight to enjoy the smell of vomit and the screams. Worst flight I’ve had in a very long time.

That’s me in the back of the canoe. Brian Jones, a coworker, was my canoe buddy on this company outing this past weekend.