ItsAllEasy

How I spent my 4th

I now subscribe to 80 RSS Feeds. That is a lot of reading/info/news.

Funny…I was telling Aislinn this weekend that I need more actual content here…and all todays posts were just links. Ah well.

Per my previous post, IT Conversations is my favorite podcast. I’m currently listening to the creator of python.

nothing, i have found
is everywhere, if you look around

nothing is that space
between you and some place

if nothing could be used
it surely would be abused

because the nothing that was
would become the something that is

—
Poem I wrote in high-school…not sure why it just popped in my head.

Just wanted to take a second to announce the birth of my second son Teller Reid Estes. His birth was completely different than Corbin’s (my first son) but every bit as amazing and awesome. I love being a daddy. Read more about the family over at Estes News (includes pics).

I’ve had this domain for a long time now, and have never done anything with it. The original idea for the domain was that it would be a site to go to for answers to whatever. My thought was that whatever the subject matter is…inevitebly someone out there finds the subject rather easy. People would pose questions or start discussions and enlightenment/arguments would ensue. Well…that never happened. So, now this will be my blog.

My name is James Estes and I am a web application developer/designer, currently working in the area of Java/J2EE. I live in St Louis with my wife, son and 2 dogs. My wife and I (ok mostly my wife) keep a family blog at http://www.estesnews.com. I appreciate a good hike, bike ride, wine (shiraz is my taste recently), clean code, and people who are smarter than me I can learn from.

What are you going to see here? I’ll mostly be talking about web developer/designer topics I’m into at the moment. You’ll see some WILT posts (What I Learned Today), posts on topics I’m passionate about (probably something in Java…the springframework is a good one recently), and I’m sure you’ll get to hear about some of my wacky ideas from time to time.

Interested? Maybe…