He walked into the room supported by the caretaker. His walk was stiff and unsteady. He clearly was a child more at ease sitting than walking. The music room with its lights and size overwhelmed him and his eyes darted casting worried glances when they caught the eyes of another. When […]
3 comments March 26th, 2007
No words today, just pictures. Click to see.
1 comment March 25th, 2007
The predominant smell of Baby House number 5 is that of boiled potato and cabbage. Underneath that is the laundered clothes being cleaned of exactly what you would imagine 110 children would need to have cleaned from all their clothes. And finally, there is the hint of the heated water in the pipes […]
Add comment March 24th, 2007
Dashca was crying when Yana walked into the room. She had just woken from her nap and was unhappy to find out that the little stuffed dog doll she went to sleep with was taken away. So focused on her misfortune, the words Yana spoke did not immediately register. “Why are you crying […]
2 comments March 23rd, 2007
I sit at a desk crammed with three computes madly typing away as if engaged in some manic symphony. I prepare, with hope, for that day we have been marching towards since the beginning. Our tickets are in hand and we are to fly tomorrow. Even at this late date, there are […]
1 comment March 20th, 2007
All along, the goal of this framework has been to insure that objects inside the framework are completely decoupled from the technology stack. Adding AJAX or switching to a thick client should not result in changes to existing objects. When the object is model oriented, this is easily accomplished. By their very […]
4 comments February 10th, 2007
It has been a while since I have talked about Agenda Redux and I know some of you check to see what is happening. I apologize for the long delay in updates, but it has been a busy time for me these last six months. Sadly that has translated to little work performed […]
7 comments January 15th, 2007
In all the prior lessons, I showed you how to create the building blocks of the framework. Today, I finally show you how to use those building blocks to define and create facades. The first lesson introduced the core objects and interfaces of the facade, the second lesson introduced objects that model controller […]
4 comments January 7th, 2007
It is inevitable that at some point in time, I write again about technology. So I return you to our framework. I began by building a core set of classes. I followed that with a set of classes that will be used to model controller behavior. In the last lesson, I […]
4 comments December 23rd, 2006
Two weeks. Two weeks since we first saw their faces and knew, finally, that these were our children. Two weeks since that day when Tanya and I sat before the directors at the MOE and discovered it was her, our “gift”, the very girl we had seen a year earlier in a chance […]
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