We celebrated Cash's first birthday yesterday.  It's always such a happy ocassion to see your child celebrate a birthday but their first one is always a blast.  We did the token.. "what happens when a 1 year old eats cake" but I'm sparing him the embarrasment of the event by not posting a picture.  A good time was had by all and congratulations to my little bundle of joy.  You rock Cash.

This weekend, Susan and I bought tickets for Norah Jones.  As an added bonus, the concert is going to be held at Red Rocks Amphitheater.  This will be Susan's first time going to Red Rocks and she is a HUGE Norah Jones fan.  I didn't think it was possible but she actually wore the grooves off the .mp3s. I believe that tickets are still available and if anyone would like to car pool with us up there, the more the merrier.  

I've been trying to incorporate more page data in the urls that make requests.  This is a much easier way to establish the state of the request.  Since the web is a Request and Response architecture, you can embed data within the url that is being requested and access that data to build the proper response to the client. If I want to call the blog page for a Charity, I can send a request of:   http://www.giveness.com/africaaid/blog  When the server sees this request, the application can read ...

I come from a long line of farmers.  My great great grandfather "Fuddy" immigrated from Germany and started farming in central Wisconsin.  This tradition continued all the way to my father who grew up farming.  I never worked on a farm other than the ocassional throwing of hay bales. I can't say for certain but I'm willing to bet that the farming legacy went back much further than grandpa Fuddy. This week I re-joined my fore-father ranks when Giveness switched our hosting environment to a Web ...

We just returned from Dallas Texas where we attended the AFP conference.  We had a few little issues getting down to Dallas but overall, it was a great experience.  We met so many wonderful people and got introduced to some amazing organizations that are doing great things.  The Nonprofit community is such a great segment to work in.  Everyone you meet has a kind heart and believes that any effort they make, can impact soceity as a whole.  Lance Armstrong gave one of the keynote ...