The Unordinary Colors of Taos
Two nights in a row in early June provided some spectacular colors at sunset from our viewpoint on El Salto. I captured this one on the second night as the twilight was fading.
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A close-up of the rock formations that make up El Salto falls moments after a storm dropped fresh snow.
Git FTW!
After a few weeks of discovering Git, I have stopped using my Subversion clients altogether. In fact, I now use git-svn as my SVN client, and could not be happier about it. Git really is an amazing set of tools. Here's why I am suddenly so addicted to the Git…
Apr 19, 2010
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
—Zen proverb
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What just happened?
I was terribly anxious for the inaugural MODxpo event in Dallas. I had not given a presentation in front of anyone since 2000, when I was a Knowledge Management Analyst for an Enterprise Portal startup called Viador. Back then I did training sessions for the Technical Field Agents, and I remember how much I hated giving presentations. In fact, I think that's why I quit that job, because they had just informed me that would be my full time gig. But I digress.
Despite the anxiety, I was the one who needed to present xPDO, so I was going and I was presenting. Now, to even get to Dallas, I had to travel 11 hours from my home in Taos, New Mexico. I only recently moved to the Taos area, and my knowledge of the roads is, well, inadequate at best. And combined with Google Maps, life threatening at worst, as I found out Sunday morning shortly after 6am.
A Little More Like Spring
I got a clear view of the entire Taos Valley this morning hiking El Salto, with the only snow a thousand feet behind me on the higher peaks. Spring has arrived, finally.
Our Ongoing Winter in Taos
I moved to Taos to experience actual seasons, but I'm starting to wonder if Spring is going to be able to overtake old man Winter.
jasoncoward.com relaunched with MODx Revolution
MODx Revolution is a content management platform that I have been developing with Shaun McCormick, the MODx core team, and the MODx community for the past few years. It is now in Release Candidate phase and I have finally found a few moments to convert my personal site to this new platform.