july’s come and gone, and i’ve been wanting to blog for pretty much the entire month, but i kept putting it off waiting for various things to add to the ever-growing pile of crap i need to write about. so today i’m finally giving in and writing as much as i can remember about the month in which i was born 1 score and 5 year ago.

jbug talk #2
i got a chance to show off our new packaging tools, the new jbossas adapter, and our visual designer / jsf kickstart project at the dfw jbug right before my birthday, and the presentation went really well. i tackled the demo from 2 angles: completely custom project structure vs. rigid / wizard generated project structure. both have their advantages and disadvantages, and i showed our wealth of flexibility by seemlesly supporting both methodologies. the key to the preso was “RAD for people who don’t like RAD”.

feliz cumpleanos a mi
the 15th was my birthday, and i couldn’tve expected a better 25th. paige gifted me with my best gifts yet: a set of fyreballs, and a set of flaming torches. needless to say you will see a flurry of new videos and images of me juggling things that are on fire :). to add to the fun, we had a small get together over at fox and hound where we had some tasty chimay red, played some pool, and headed over to the studio movie grill to eat some grub while we watched the new harry potter flick. after the movie, i did a small fyreball presentation that we should have available on video Real Soon Now(TM).

other miscellany
our house is now officially on the MLS.. though the showings are moving a little slowly. we’ll probably have to lower the price a little bit to attract more people, but i’m keeping my thoughts positive on the subject. paige and i are also eyeing a nice lot / custom builder in a small lake-town called shady shores, and we’re hoping to get a good deal there. in other news, i’ve created a facebook profile, because facebook’s interface is about 10 million times better than myspace.. feel free to add me: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727671517.