After a quick call with Adrian at Cureton Woods today, she offered to go take some photos of the progress on our house with her cell phone camera. They’ve begun framing the first floor! Framing usually takes about a week, then they move onto the roof and electrical work. Some photos are below. You can keep tabs on progress here: House progress pictures Front of the house Front and right side

Today, Felicia and I signed a contract on our new house in the Atlanta area! We’ll be building a house in the Cureton Woods subdivision in the city of Austell, Georgia. Clocking in at about 3,000 square feet (that’s big!), it’s the Riverbirch plan with the side entry garage. You can see videos here and pictures here. We’d also like to thank our real estate agents, Donna Robinson and Kelly Campbell for their assistance during our search. We’re confident they’ll be a huge help to us while our house is being built. For anyone searching for homes, condos, or townhomes in the Atlanta area, they’re your people!

This evening, I spoke at Atlanta PHP on “Designing for Scalability” (slides coming soon!). It was a great crowd with some great questions, and most notably, was my first public speaking in the PHP community. I’ll be aiming to do more of these things in the coming months, so you may see me out on the conference scene soon. Thanks again to the group! Please don’t hesitate to email at any time.

A few weeks back, I had a need to install the latest copy of libxml2 on my Intel Mac Mini here at home. Little did I know what trouble it would cause! First, after installing 2.6.27, I noticed that Colloquy, my IRC client, wasn’t so stable. After downgrading to libxml 2.6.16, all of my Office apps stopped working! The icons would bounce once on the dock, then poof…nothing. So, after tons of Googling, I discovered the Console program. Upon running this and trying to start various Office applications, I noticed an error for libxml2! Now, of course I couldn’t find out what version of libxml2 was installed with the latest 10.4.9 update, so I SCP’d over all of /usr/lib/libxml2* from my work MacBook, onto my Mac Mini and poof…everything’s working again.

…nah…only kidding! As some of you may know, Felicia and I were married on February 17, 2007. We left early the next morning for a cruise to San Juan, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas on the Carnival Victory. We loved the trip…I highly recommend cruising! A week was a tad too long, but it may not have been if we had stopped at one more place. But regardless, thumbs up for cruising! You can find photos at the links above. If anyone wants the original, high-resolution images suitable for printing, email me!