Chris Hammondhttp://www.chrishammond.comRSS Feed for Chris Hammond120Falmouth Maine, here I come...https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/640/Falmouth-Maine-here-I-comeI'm headed off to Falmouth Maine for a few days of DotNetNuke training. I'll be back Thursday morning. I'm bringing my Camera along, hopefully I'll find something cool to take a photo...Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:46:00 GMT96162038-1756-4911-91ad-30836025d242I'm going back to Cali, no wait...https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/745/Im-going-back-to-Cali-no-waitInstead of my usual trips to the West Coast, 2007 is a year of trips East! Tonight I'm heading off to Washington DC for some DotNetNuke training with a client, and then on Wednesday I take a train (first time since I was probably 4 or 5) up to New York City. I've been to Washington a few times, most recently last June for the ProSolo event, but I didn't get to do any tourist type stuff, Natalie took all the photos in the link. So I'm hoping to at least walk around for a few hours Tuesday evening taking some cool photos. I've never been to New York, so I'm hoping to get to do some of the major things while I'm there. See the Empire State Building, which I think is a block over from my hotel, as well as visit the site of the World Trade Center, as well as any number of other things I can think of, and hopefully fit in during my alloted time! I'll be back in town on Friday, feverishly working on the 280Z so I can get rid of it this weekend and pick up the 240 from Illinois to get it back home in the garage. In April I'm headed East again, going to Opening Day at Fenway for the 2nd year in a...Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:56:00 GMTecd41d3b-d776-4b40-a249-2e2a985793e0In NYhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/747/In-NYWell the train ride to New York was uneventful. It's snowing though, and a mess! I'm off to see the city here in a few...Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:43:00 GMT2207b4ee-56ce-4ae8-8366-a4b5fa120d76Time to leavehttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/748/Time-to-leaveI should be in bed, I've gotta get up at 3am tomorrow! Headed home in the morning, hope to post photos and such tomorrow afternoon, as well as a full...Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:43:00 GMT76535ed7-1a01-4454-be19-6137fb8a4fa4Off to Salt Lake Cityhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/773/Off-to-Salt-Lake-CityI'm leaving for Salt Lake City in the morning. Anyone have any suggestions on what to do while I'm...Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:11:00 GMTb13627b3-0fca-470e-9529-efc2f9c6c726DotNetNuke Conference announced for November 2007, in Vegas!https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/797/DotNetNuke-Conference-announced-for-November-2007Vegas baby, vegas! I know where I'll be for my wife's birthday, in Vegas! Check out Joe Brinkman's blog post for more info, but basically there is a call out for speaker's for the OpenForce '07 conference. I've already submitted a few speaking proposals for the conference, but either way, speaking or not, I'll be there. Hope to see more of the DNN community out there, this is the first DotNetNuke specific conference out there, so be sure to make it!And yes, my wife will most likely be going with me, she wouldn't dare let me go to Las Vegas on her birthday without her! Posted from...Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:38:00 GMT42a5dc0f-25e4-4265-bbe1-ca4f956a0484Photos from Las Vegashttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/961/Photos-from-Las-VegasI posted a lot of photos we took yesterday and today. Quite a few of Natalie and I, as well as the fire in the sky we got to see for a Sunset Today. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chammond/sets/72157602928388453/   ...Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:09:00 GMT99753084-32ee-4f8a-a691-5aad31e95133A cold day in ..... Chicagohttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1000/A-cold-day-in--ChicagoSo I got up this morning and headed off to the training. The 2008 VW Rabbit that I'm driving while here said it was 1degree F! I'm not sure I've ever been anywhere this cold...Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:00:00 GMT3cac1e73-ee8d-4da5-b785-3c75cc9a6b2dHome From Chicago!https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1001/Home-From-ChicagoWell I made it home from Chitown this evening. I got to the airport early with hopes of trying to catch an earlier flight out but didn't have any luck. My flight however was not even half full, which made the wait worth it. I've finally started working on the SQL scripts that I'm hoping to use to convert this site from Community Server to DotNetNuke. I've modified the Engage: Publish module to support Tagging which was the last major feature I needed before I could finish things up. I'll start testing the import this weekend and see how it goes, hopefully I'll have the site converted before the end of next...Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:58:00 GMTeb101280-255c-45fe-9e0b-6282ec270b7dWelcome to the ocean...https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1151/Welcome-to-the-oceanMade it to Arkansas. Half the state is flooded, makes for some amazing views, I'll see how the photos turn out, hopefully posted on Flickr tonight. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:50:12 GMT99d81a8c-1d29-46e4-936e-db9fb9910566Tall person discriminationhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1152/Tall-person-discriminationI think the Days Inn here in Newport Arkansas discriminates against tall people. In order to take a shower and wash my hair I had to shower on my knees because the darn shower head is so short. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:51:02 GMT4e49c7ad-35df-4dd4-9883-714f262f5e8cWelcome to Atlantahttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1190/Welcome-to-AtlantaShort post, it's late, too much work to do, and I need to get to sleep soon. Nick and I made it to Atlanta, took 11.5-12 hours, too long, stupid traffic! Fri, 16 May 2008 22:30:23 GMTb8eda0b2-7c83-43ab-a342-cb3850f8b340flying to washington dchttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1192/flying-to-washington-dcsitting on the flight to dc. baby in row yay.Sun, 18 May 2008 19:13:02 GMT844d5975-091f-48f3-a379-720dd9275517Long days, short nightshttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1196/Long-days-short-nights<p>I love travelling, but I think I need to plan my trips out a bit better.</p> <p>I went from 8:30a to 10pm tonight with two different clients. It's enjoyable to say the least, but I am drained, we also start back up at 7am tomorrow.</p> <p>At 11am I'm off to meet with another client for lunch, then head to the airport to fly back to Atlanta.</p>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:10:38 GMT9945dc9b-7269-45a5-9a3c-6d799d5f03b0Back in Georgiahttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1197/Back-in-GeorgiaMade it back to Georgia, racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday and Sunday if anyone is in the area and wants to stop by.Fri, 23 May 2008 21:54:23 GMT4f0f5307-507f-48c1-9114-cd8b0694bc75Made it to Milwaukeehttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1368/Made-it-to-MilwaukeeWe made it to Milwaukee, uneventful trip up, which is always good. Weather isn't looking so hot so far, we'll see if we get to try out the Hoosier Wets tomorrow or not. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:46:43 GMT30ae7212-6c81-45d7-b68f-0f1df2bd1977Red Sox and Yankees in New York Cityhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1408/Red-Sox-and-Yankees-in-New-York-CityIt looks like New York in two weeks will be a Family affair! The New England clan will be driving/flying? down to join me at the Red Sox Yankees game on the 26h at Yankees Stadium. I'll repeat the process in Boston a month later as I have a pair of tickets to two games at Fenway in the final regular series of the 2008 season, also against the damn Yankees.Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:28:38 GMT64ebffe9-577a-4336-960a-310cfbae5452Travelling to New Yorkhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1438/Travelling-to-New-York<p>While I thought I had this whole trip to New York tomorrow to see the Red Sox play the Yankees turned out to be far more complex than I had imagined. I ended up getting a rental car this evening so I would have a place to store my bag(s) while I head into the city tomorrow afternoon. Otherwise I would have had to pay $60 each way for a car ride to/from the hotel to drop off my bags.</p> <p>I also could have rented a storage locker with Amtrak at Penn Station, but that would have required me to get an Amtrak ticket, the cheapest of which I found was $40.</p> <p>So I got a car for $142 for two days from Priceline, compact, not too bad I guess. Now to finish packing so I can go to bed early.</p> <p>What should I wear tomorrow to the game, a red sox jersey? Will I get killed?</p> <p> </p>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:08:09 GMTb5b5fe53-ae78-463b-b3ed-6039b2a38109Day in New Yorkhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1439/Day-in-New-YorkIt has been a long day. Cliff Notes: Flight to New Jersey (slept), Picked up rental car, parked rental car in daily parking with my stuff. Train to Penn Station, Wander around NY, random Subway trips. Yankees Red Sox Game (Sox Win! Sox Win!) Subway back to Penn Station. Train back to Newark Airport, hop in rental car, drive to Parssippany to hotel. Read tons of email, go to bed. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:25:19 GMT09803545-9f77-469a-85f1-53da6d790c7aSitting at the airporthttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1440/Sitting-at-the-airportSo I am sitting at the Newark Airport, ready to fly home. Flight is just a little over an hour away. Talk about a long two days, but it was definitely fun. Met some great people training today, hopefully they learned a lot from the session. I'll post another blog tomorrow when I can must up some energy.Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:32:47 GMT7acc9051-9cd0-4864-bafe-1974382dd8a6End of the regular seasonhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1488/End-of-the-regular-season<p>Carol and I went to the first game of the double header today at Fenway Park in Boston. We had standing room only tickets but with the weather managed to get ourselves seats in the grandstand after the second inning.</p> <p>Another loss for the Red Sox, at least they won the 2nd game of the double header this evening.</p> <p>I'm flying back to St. Louis in the morning, with a 2.5 hour stop in NY. I'm going to try to get to bed now, more tomorrow as Natalie and I prepare for Amsterdam.</p>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:41:49 GMTdd1a1af4-392d-4a6c-9f66-bf440965bca7Not enough time to bloghttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1671/Not-enough-time-to-blog<p>So last year I made it all the way through April with blogging at least once a day, and while it will look like I blogged on the 7th, the date for that post was really on the 6th. This is posting on the 8th, so, I made it 6 days before I missed a blog post :(</p> <p>I guess I will have to try again NEXT year to blog every day of the year. I tell you, this week has been nuts, if you follow my <a href="http://twitter.com/christoc" target="_blank">twitter feed</a> at all, I posted that I already have 33 hours in our time tracker, after just three days of work. I have a lot left to go, and another book deadline for next week, along with travelling out of town next week. It looks like it will be another busy weekend!</p> <p>I am going to make time to see a movie with my wife, we’re going to go see Gran Torino on Friday night.</p>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:48:20 GMTff630310-6122-4076-9f0b-f5becba9f81dMondays, what Sunday threw uphttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1678/Mondays-what-Sunday-threw-up<p>No, this isn’t a hang over blog post. I’m here in Connecticut doing some super secret (not really) work and got to hang out with the cast of <a target="_blank" href="http://mondays.pwop.com/default.aspx">Mondays What Sunday Threw Up</a> for dinner tonight.</p> <p>I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not much of a podcast guy, I have tried in the past, but I like my music too much to listen to something else throughout the day. That might have to change now. As soon as I get home I’m going to add this to my podcasts on my Zune software to start syncing up the show. These guys are damn funny in person, the clip I heard from a show from a few years ago was even more funny, so I am going to have to give this a whirl. I question, when would I listen though? I’m concerned if I listen while driving down the road I might laugh myself off the road…</p> <p>Thanks for dinner tonight guys, it was fun and I hope to see you all again!</p>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:22:41 GMTd820de46-0abb-474f-bb1a-2be8139c3673Upcoming trips, Colorado, Virginia, Florida and Las Vegas too!https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1756/Upcoming-trips-Colorado-Virginia-Florida-and-La<p>So it looks like my travelling is starting back up here pretty quickly. This weekend Natalie and I are headed to Colorado to do another round of house hunting. We’ll be back in town either Sunday or Monday, thankfully Kim is staying at our place again to watch the dogs while we are gone, thanks Kim! For more info on that trip check out <a href="http://www.going2colorado.com/">http://www.going2colorado.com/</a></p> <p>Next weekend I’ll be cruising around Missouri and Illinois on a Harley with Kevin, we did this two years ago and wanted to do it again before the move to CO. The week after that I’m headed to Virginia for a couple of days of <a href="http://www.engagesoftware.com/Training.aspx" target="_blank">DotNetNuke Training</a>. I’ll be back in town the weekend of our niece’s birthday party, and then the following week I head to Tampa Florida for the <a href="http://www.dayofdnn.com/" target="_blank">Day of DotNetNuke</a>. The <a href="http://www.dayofdnn.com/" target="_blank">DayOfDNN</a> is actually on Saturday but I’ll be doing a <a href="http://www.engagesoftware.com/Training/workshops.aspx" target="_blank">DotNetNuke Essentials Workshop</a> on Friday, and also a <a href="http://www.engagesoftware.com/Training/workshops.aspx" target="_blank">DotNetNuke Best Practices Workshop</a> on Sunday following the event.</p> <p>In other news I also got word this week that I’ve been accepted as a speaker for the third year in a row for the <a href="http://www.openforce09.com/" target="_blank">DotNetNuke OpenForce</a> conference held in Las Vegas in November. I’m honored to have been selected to speak again, there were a lot of submissions this year and a lot of big names in the community included in those submissions. Also a quick congrats to my fellow <a href="http://www.engagesoftware.com/" target="_blank">Engage</a> employee <a href="http://www.cuongdang.net/" target="_blank">Cuong Dang</a> for having two sessions at OpenForce this year, his second time attending and presenting.</p> <p>It’s turning out to be a busy summer, hopefully we find a house this weekend so we can get our move on and get settled so we can enjoy all the upcoming things!</p>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:19:12 GMTd005e3cd-05aa-475d-b4ea-bf64b6e97f70Hitting the city of San Franciscohttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1878/Hitting-the-city-of-San-FranciscoSo tonight I took for for San Francisco, it wasn’t too far, about an hour drive from my hotel down to Pier 39, maybe a little further due to traffic. I got the camera out, and after fighting with the parking meter headed off to take some photos. I hit the Pier for a while, taking a collection of photos, and then headed off to find Lombard street, the windy part. Fortunately I’ve been using my Droid (phone) for navigation this trip, and ...Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:40:31 GMT45dd5b49-e95a-4112-94b7-29052251f292Me and the Google Androidhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1879/Me-and-the-Google-AndroidTonight after another day of DotNetNuke training I went up to Mountain View to meet up with a friend for dinner. This friend used to live/race cars in St. Louis, but now lives out here in California and works for Google. I took the opportunity to drive up to the Google campus and take a look around a bit. I also realized that the exit for the Campus is the exit in which I got into my first car accident, back in 1995. We were on our way to a Live (the band) concert, and I ran into the stopped traffic at the exit, a friend then running into me.Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:01:25 GMT8e500409-2b22-4aac-8619-4070efe32d69Two Announcements, going home, and we are having a baby!https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1895/Two-Announcements-going-home-and-we-are-having-a<p>So what was going to be a single big announcement, that I’ve been sitting on for a number of weeks now, recently got trumped. So before I talk about the first announcement, I’ll talk about the one that trumped it! </p> <p><strong>Natalie and I are having a baby!</strong> So far we’re only about 5 or 6 weeks in, with a tentative due date of 10/16/2010, though I am really hoping we can pop that kid out on 10/10/10! We are most definitely excited about this, though it wasn’t exactly planned, it definitely is something we look forward to. I keep telling her I want twin boys, and my good buddy Leigh over the pond suggest that if we do we name them Jack and Daniel, I love it!</p> <p>Now, for the original announcement ;) We are moving to California! Years ago I left home. I went to Missouri. I went to school. I got a job. I changed jobs (a few times). I lived in Missouri for 14 years, my parents even lived there for a while, but to be honest, I never really considered it home, it was just where I was in life. Just over 6 months ago we moved to Colorado. We purchased our first home. We love it, but even Colorado still doesn’t quite feel like home, it does more so than Missouri ever did, but there is still something missing here. (We actually love Parker Colorado, and have the best neighbors ever, they are some of our closest friends.)</p> <p>I’ve always thought of home as California. I went to high school (3 of 4 years anyways) in California. I left for college, and I always said I would go back if I could make things work out. Well things are working out. Natalie and I put the house on the market two weeks ago and we are moving to California! I won’t torture everyone in the way I did with our move to Colorado (think goingtocolorado.com) but I will try to keep friends and family who are interested up to date as things progress.</p> <p>I can’t go into other details just yet, what I’ll be doing there, who I will be working for, but I can tell you that I start working in California on March 1st. I look forward to catching up with friends from high school and ages past, and Natalie looks forward to winters that don’t get below freezing constantly :)</p> <p>If you are interested in purchasing a great house in Parker Colorado be sure to <a href="http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/17960-Domingo-Dr_Parker_CO_80134_1115863906" target="_blank">check out ours, it is for sale</a>! </p>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:15:59 GMTb96b6be4-b6cd-4fa0-adb0-76fb14f11376Landed in Chicagohttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/999/Landed-in-ChicagoI ended up catching an earlier flight out of St. Louis to Chicago this evening. I got to the gate and sat down as they were loading a flight that was scheduled an hour and a half before mine. I grabbed a pizza to eat for dinner, and came back to see that my flight was delayed by at least a half an hour. So I walked up to the counter after they finished boarding and asked if I could get on the earlier flight. Not a problem, I really do love flying on American Airlines, they are always helpful! So here in I am, in Chicago again for a few days. More blogging later, now I have to prep for my training...Chris HammondWed, 02 Jan 2008 22:57:00 GMTed55dadc-42e9-4672-92a1-8cb5d5a3cb1aOff to the Lake of the Ozarkshttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/920/Off-to-the-Lake-of-the-OzarksNatalie and I are headed to the Lake of the Ozarks this weekend with Bill and a few of his friends. It should be a great time, we went down there a few weeks ago just for part of the day. This time we're headed down for a few days. Then on Monday evening I head to DC for the week to conduct some DotNetNuke training for a new client. I hope to do some site seeing while in DC as the last time I was there it was extremely cold! Though I did get a few cool photos while I was...Chris HammondFri, 31 Aug 2007 10:18:00 GMTd1e68f5f-be66-4341-bd67-ca934d4abc3eGoing back to Cali, to Cali, to Calihttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1877/Going-back-to-Cali-to-Cali-to-Cali<p>It’s been a year since I was last in Cali, and I’m heading back! What’s the big deal? Well I half consider California home, even more so than Missouri even though I lived in MO for 14 years. I spent 6-9 grades, and 11-12 in California, in both Southern and Northern California. I got married in California, my brother lives in California, and quite a few of my friends do as well. So any chance I get to go back I look forward to.</p> <p>This time around I’m heading out to the Bay area for a few days of DotNetNuke Training with a client, I’ll be there later tonight training Tues thru Thursday, and then flying home on Saturday. I’m going to visit with some friends from high school Friday night at a little dinner get together I’ve arranged. I’m also hoping to check out the <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com/" target="_blank">DotNetNuke</a> offices in San Mateo on Friday while I’m there.</p> <p>I’ve yet to decide what camera(s) I’m taking with me, I’d like to take both DSLrs but I don’t want to carry them both. If I had a flash attachment for the 5D Mark II I would leave the old Rebel at home, but I currently don’t, so I need the Rebel if I want to shoot any flash shots of the gathering Friday night, though I guess I could just use the point and shoot for that.</p> <p>It looks like 2010 is going to be another busy travel year, I am headed to Rhode Island next week for 2 days of DNN consulting out there as well.</p> <p>Stay tuned for some pictures of my Cali travels later this week. </p>Chris HammondMon, 04 Jan 2010 11:46:03 GMT4caf194e-d065-4342-9560-64d3a34ec102On the way to Washington DC to do some DotNetNuke Traininghttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/922/On-the-way-to-Washington-DC-to-do-some-DotNetNukeI am currently on my 4th trip this year (I could be off 1 or 2), and actually my second trip to Washington DC. I'm sitting at Lambert Airport waiting for yet another delayed flight. I'll be training a new client on the basics of DotNetNuke, and a 3 day introduction to DotNetNuke Module Development. We (Engage Software) are currently looking at revamping our DotNetNuke Training operations. While I like traveling I'm also taking evening classes this fall and being gone for a week of training really hurts when it causes me to miss a whole week of class. Stay tuned later this fall as we announce new DotNetNuke training options and...Chris HammondMon, 03 Sep 2007 16:06:00 GMT750d3093-c2e2-4cab-ac15-8d05cf688388Missouri is Brownhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2108/Missouri-is-Brown<p>On our trip yesterday we flew to Chicago, then down from Chicago to St. Louis. As with a lot of flights into St. Louis there were a ton of recruits on the flight making their way down to Fort Leonard Wood. Two of them were girls, sitting in the row behind us. First things first, I respect anyone who commits to our nation’s military, and I applaud them for doing so.</p> <p>That being said, holy cow  are we in trouble. The first 30 minutes of the 1 hour flight were spent with each of them trying to show how dumb they were when it came to geography. Neither of them knew where Missouri was, and I’m sure you could have asked them where ANY other state was (besides Connecticut or Wisconsin where they were from) and they wouldn’t have a clue where they were on a map.</p> <p>I tried to tune them out, and Jacqueline tried to drown them out with a little bit of crying, but it was hard to do. The best part, or worst, was when we finally came down out of the clouds and were about to land in St. Louis. They both looked out the window and commented on how “crappy” Missouri looked” I wanted to turn around and say “welcome to winter, if you aren’t covered in snow and white, this is what the rest of the country looks like at this time of year”.  But I didn’t, I chose to let it go.</p> <p>But I must admit, they are right, it sure is brown here! A totally different kind of brown than Colorado was, and much different than California is. It is rather desolate looking.</p>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:35:09 GMT5f31958b-0c8d-452e-822a-95fcfd75aef4Time lapse from the San Francisco Triphttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2126/Time-lapse-from-the-San-Francisco-Trip<p>Yesterday’s adventure to San Francisco was caught on camera! Check out the video of our drive</p> <p><iframe title="YouTube video player" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H9s9y1-7HCU" frameborder="0" width="480" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:12:24 GMT5261f349-217f-405e-8777-5db9e1b97d08What software do you use for photos?https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2183/What-software-do-you-use-for-photos<p>So I am home from CMSExpo and I am trying to go through photos. I’ve finally (I think) given up on Windows Live Photo Gallery, as my library of 543 GB of photos (146k files).</p> <p>I downloaded Adobe’s Lightroom 3 for a 30 day trial to see how it works. Anyone have any opinions on how best to manage all your photos for processing?</p> <p>I sort my photos on the file system by year/month/date (into folders for each). Fortunately for me I also tend to remember when an event occurred, so finding photos comes fairly easily because of this.</p>Thu, 05 May 2011 23:44:59 GMT0cf05c45-62ca-4a8c-bf4d-154e26fcec13Humidity - Central Time Zone +https://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2267/Humidity--Central-Time-Zone-<p>Disadvantages of being in New Orleans, HUMIDITY, I still hate you.</p> <p>Advantages of being in New Orleans, Central Time Zone, all the shows come on early!</p> <p>Flying into New Orleans has to be one of the best views ever. It is amazing.</p> <p>This evening I walked around a bit looking for dinner, a nice trip around the French Quarter. I didn’t take my good camera, just the point and shoot, but I took a couple of photos, here are two I uploaded.</p> <p><a title="New Orleans" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5976256319/"><img border="0" alt="New Orleans" src="http://static.flickr.com/6006/5976256319_d01a20e16a_m.jpg" /></a> <a title="New Orleans" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5976815210/"><img border="0" alt="New Orleans" src="http://static.flickr.com/6027/5976815210_e658856132_m.jpg" /></a></p>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:39:58 GMT720f512e-d9cc-4997-96ce-7bc3ae9662bcThe doors of the French Quarterhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2268/The-doors-of-the-French-Quarter<p>I’ve spent the last two evenings in the French Quarter. No, not drinking it up and partying like a college kid, but like a 34 year old married man, walking around with a camera looking for interesting things to take pictures of. No pictures of people yet, but check out some of the photos I took tonight.</p> <p><a title="Doors off Bourbon Street" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5980310226/"><img style="border-bottom: #000 5px solid; border-left: #000 5px solid; border-top: #000 5px solid; border-right: #000 5px solid" alt="Doors off Bourbon Street" src="http://static.flickr.com/6005/5980310226_7fb734f157.jpg" /></a> <a title="Doors off Bourbon Street" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5979730847/"><img style="border-bottom: #000 5px solid; border-left: #000 5px solid; border-top: #000 5px solid; border-right: #000 5px solid" border="0" alt="Doors off Bourbon Street" src="http://static.flickr.com/6022/5979730847_f7f25eba4b.jpg" /></a></p>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:22:53 GMTae32653e-b6d6-4009-bb7a-9ee062c6853dA trip to Hammond Louisianahttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2270/A-trip-to-Hammond-Louisiana<p><a title="Driving across a 24+ mile bridge" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5986088958/"><img border="0" alt="Driving across a 24+ mile bridge" align="right" src="http://static.flickr.com/6124/5986088958_f4c6a2fef7_m.jpg" /></a>Today after finishing up the custom <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com"><a href="http://bit.ly/DnnTraining" target="_blank">DotNetNuke Training</a> I</a> took off on the Causeway, crossing over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pontchartrain_Causeway" target="_blank">Lake Pontchartain Causeway bridge</a>. The bridge is the longest continuous bridge over water in the World, so I had to take a drive over it.</p> <p>From there I decided to head west to Hammond Louisiana. Why not? I drove through town, took a couple of pictures which I’ll post later, here is one I posted while I was there.</p> <p><a title="Yes I drove to Hammond Louisiana" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17726343@N00/5986232862/"><img border="0" alt="Yes I drove to Hammond Louisiana" src="http://static.flickr.com/6125/5986232862_fd4914a81b_m.jpg" /></a></p>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:32:16 GMTabc433ee-b4bc-4014-a713-d4d330e4271fTravis AFB Skies over Solano Countyhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2271/Travis-AFB-Skies-over-Solano-County<p>If you’re going to the Travis AFB Skies over Solano County this weekend, good luck finding a schedule! Actually, good luck of finding much of anything.</p> <p>The website for the show appears to be <a href="http://www.travisairexpo.com/">http://www.travisairexpo.com/</a> but it hardly has anything useful on there. The only thing that is of any use is the do’s and don’ts section of the FAQ.</p> <p>I’m hoping to get out there on Saturday to see the Thunderbirds, but there is no telling when they will actually perform. I assume later in the afternoon, hopefully that assumption isn’t wrong!</p> <p>Maybe next year the folks running the show will setup a <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com/" target="_blank">DotNetNuke</a> based website, hell I’ll even help them out, so they can see how easy it is to setup and maintain content with <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">the best open source content management system</a>.</p> <p>UPDATE: Finally I found some info, looks like they will close the show around 3pm! <a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_18574402?source=most_viewed">http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_18574402?source=most_viewed</a></p>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:12:08 GMT0a03bff3-8872-4e8f-8bd6-6c89091f0cbaHow to read blog posts on an international flight? Saving articles and blogs with DropBox and PDFshttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2593/How-to-read-blog-posts-on-an-international-flightSo this is totally unrelated to DotNetNuke, as most of my posts tend to be, except that I am getting ready to travel for an extended trip overseas and I was wondering how could I take some blog posts and articles that I found online that I want to read, with me on the plane trip. The problem with my flight being that I will be going overseas which pretty much rules out inflight internet (at least on United, which I have decided booking the flight on was a bad idea, but it is booked). So how can I take some articles from websites with me, without having internet, and without killing trees? Well my Android tablet of course (I assume this would also work on an IPad, but no guarantees). Using my tablet, along with DropBox, and then of course a PDF reader (Amazon Kindle works) I can read articles that I’ve saved. Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:26:47 GMTb8e86abf-10d7-4bbb-bc79-9e9bd672d043Quiet around here, but still goinghttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2596/Quiet-around-here-but-still-going<p>Things have been quiet around here, so I figured it was a good time for a status update that is longer than 140 characters.</p> <p>We are in the middle of the process of planning our next move, true to our nature, we’ve been in Half Moon Bay for less than 18 months, and we’ll be heading back east. We’re going back to St. Louis in December, and currently looking for a place to live. I’ll be working from home and travelling back to San Mateo at least once a month to be in the office at DNNCorp.</p> <p>The move and planning for such is taking up most of our time, though I am also travelling a lot for work lately, headed to Columbus next week and San Antonio after that.</p> <p>Here’s a photo of Natalie and Jacqueline taken earlier this evening.</p> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chammond/8107560577/" title="Mommy and Jacqueline at Sunset by chrishammond, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8328/8107560577_3fed14ca5d_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Mommy and Jacqueline at Sunset"></a>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:56:33 GMT94d64ec9-f5ae-491e-8e1f-627e53791445Travelling Againhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Cars/240z/itemId/1732/Travelling-Again<p>So I'm here in Minneapolis teaching another week of DotNetNuke Training. It's an interesting town, but I'm looking forward to being home again this weekend and working on the Datsun <a href="http://www.project240z.com">www.project240z.com</a></p> <p>Monday it looks like I am driving to Indianapolis for the day to meet with a new client, then driving home Monday night. That'll make for a long day, but I would rather do that then stay over night.</p> <p>Check out my flickr feed for some photos <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chammond/">www.flickr.com/photos/chammond/</a></p> <p>While i've been here I've been trying to finish up a few chapter reviews from the production layouts for the book. I have one chapter left to review, and Pat has a chapter or two to finish up. After that I "think" we're done with the book, but we'll see what the publisher says!</p>Chris HammondThu, 16 Apr 2009 01:22:44 GMT821a46c4-6fad-49c9-9c29-20d0dfbd6930Travelling with the Babyhttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2090/Travelling-with-the-Baby<p>Today was our longest day away from the house with the baby, and all in all things went very well.</p> <p>We left around 10am and headed up towards Vacaville, timing it so that the baby had a bottle around 8:30, and was up until we hit the road at 10. She fell asleep and woke about 20 minutes into our lunch at Panera Bread at Nut Tree in Vacaville. From there she had a bottle and was awake for more of the next couple of hours as we did a little shopping at the outlet mall in Vacaville.</p> <p>Then we headed off to a Super Bowl party in Fairfield, Jacqueline got another bottle there, but didn’t get down to sleep till probably almost 5pm, it was loud, and she wasn’t too big a fan of the cheering (mostly from silly Steelers fans) but she held up very well.</p> <p>She got another bottle right before we left and slept the whole ride home. Natalie fed her again when we got home, though I think she slept through most of that feeding. We’ll see how she sleeps tonight, hopefully most of the night! I’m off to bed early as well, I am going to hit the office early so I can spend a few hours in the  afternoon dealing with the Nissan Leaf which is at the dealer waiting.</p>Chris HammondMon, 07 Feb 2011 01:25:32 GMT1d7f12ec-486b-4c24-9489-29ed0d71bc48DotNetNuke Training Locationshttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/1194/DotNetNuke-Training-LocationsOver the years of offering and providing DotNetNuke (DNN) Training I've had the opportunity to train people from and travel to locations all over the United States. I figured it was time to put together a list of some of the locations I've been to and provided training to people from: Chris HammondTue, 20 May 2008 22:40:39 GMTd38060cc-b511-4bff-8c02-32b1c8fccf6d2014 Blytheville ProSolo Recaphttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/2651/2014-Blytheville-ProSolo-RecapThis weekend Dave and I headed down to Blytheville Arkansas for the first SCCA ProSolo of the 2014 season. I haven’t given autocross much though since Nationals in September, the primary thought I have had since then is that I figured I wouldn’t autocross much this year. The local SCCA region really put a damper on my autocross spirits last year, so I figured I might run a few National level events, but few if any local events.Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:51:01 GMT3830c55d-5597-4a37-a98a-139ba401d578Samsung Frame TV Artwork - Grand Canyon Black and Whitehttps://www.chrishammond.com/Blog/itemId/3137/Samsung-Frame-TV-Artwork--Grand-Canyon-Black-and<p>Recently I had my eyes opened up to the wonder of the Samsung Frame TV. If you have a Frame TV you can use it as a picture frame, either pulling in art work from Samsung (with a monthly subscription) or by providing your own digital files for use as display pieces on the device.</p> <p> </p> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> var pageUrl = "/Events/2022/04/Grand-Canyon-Black-and-White-FrameTV"; // _mfpOn('BeforeChange', function(e, prevType, newType) {alert('change'); }); $('.popup').on('mfpChange', function(e /*, params */) { originalUrl = window.location.href.split('?')[0]; var newUrl = $.magnificPopup.instance.currItem.el.attr('data-url'); var newTitle = $.magnificPopup.instance.currItem.el.attr('title') window.history.replaceState("object or string", newTitle, newUrl); //"?rbmphoto=" + $.magnificPopup.instance.index); }); $('.popup').on('mfpClose', function(e /*, params */) { window.history.replaceState({}, '', pageUrl); //"?rbmphoto=" + $.magnificPopup.instance.index); }); $(document).ready(function ($) { $('a.popup').magnificPopup({ type: 'image', gallery: { enabled: true, navigateByImgClick: true, preload: [0, 1] // Will preload 0 - before current, and 1 after the current image }, image: { titleSrc: function (item) { return item.el.attr('title') + ' ' + item.el.attr('data-caption'); } } // other options }); }); //check if the url contains a photo $( document ).ready(function($) { // console.log( "ready!" ); //console.log('Page Load', window.location.href.split('?')[1]); var galleryNameLoc = window.location.href.indexOf("galleryname=") if(galleryNameLoc>0) { //console.log('Found Index', index); var gindex = window.location.href.substring(galleryNameLoc+12).split("&")[0]; //console.log('G Index:', gindex); //console.log('Item:',$('#' + gindex)); var galleryObj = $('#' + gindex); var loc = window.location.href.indexOf("rbmphoto=") if(loc>0) { //console.log('Found It', window.location.href.substring(loc)); var index = window.location.href.substring(loc+9).split("&")[0]; //console.log('Found Index', index); //lookup the image on the page if there are multiple galleries $('#' + gindex).find('.popup')[index].click(); } } //var loc = window.location.href.indexOf("rbmphoto=") //if(loc<0) //{ // //console.log('Found It', window.location.href.substring(loc)); // var index = window.location.href.substring(loc+9).split("&")[0]; // //console.log('Found Index', index); // //lookup the image on the page if there are multiple galleries // document.getElementsByClassName('popup')[index].click(); //} }); </script>RainbowMarksBlogSun, 16 Apr 2023 10:00:00 GMTf73b49d3-838d-4107-b52d-301e1231b7f1