Will Strohl's Blog

Originally, Chris Hammond and I were planning to go to the #KloutDevNight meetup tonight to hang out with the good folks at Klout.com. Well, Chris got a hamstring cramp or something from too much DotNetNuke training and decided not to go.  So, I invited Kim to go with me, and off we went to the offices of Klout!  Overall, it was a great idea and I’d love to do it again!

There has been a program offered by Telerik for some time now, where they will sponsor speakers to give presentations to user groups and code camps.  This was partially an effort to further ensure the quality and existence of user groups since they saw a decline in user group activity in 2008.  The list was never very long, but until now, I didn’t realize how short the list really is.  Telerik announced their Insiders Program today.

This will be a quick post.  I just wanted to let all of my readers know about a tool that Rob Chartier found today.  It’s called jQueryPad.  This is an editor built specifically for jQuery developers to use to build out any jQuery code that they want.  Although I have two specific features on my personal wish list, this tool is outstanding!

As you may or may not know, I recently moved to the San Francisco area in California, which involved moving my family and our entire home.  Due to all kinds of things, the family wasn’t able to move with me until the end of December.  Finally, the time came, and we drove from Orlando, FL to San Francisco, CA.  It was a very fun and challenging journey for a family of 5, across 8 states, and through 4 time zones for 6 days.  The trip could’ve been shorter, but we stayed with family in Arizona for a couple of days.

During this time, we used our Android G2 phones quite extensively.  There are apps that we always use, but including those, a couple of apps proved to be very helpful to us.