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Arrived at Nickerson State Park

July 8, 2016

We arrived at our campsite just before 7:00 pm making the official drive time almost exactly 12 hours. Looks like a really nice estimate from Sandra once again. Now it is time to set up our tents, we

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

July 7, 2016

As we left the Bass Pro we spotted a float with circus animals on it. Then another float full of people. We decided to look it up, obviously there was some sort of parade today and it shouldn't be

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From DC to Bass Pro

July 6, 2016

We left Georgetown around 7 am for what looked like an 8 hour drive. Sandra estimated 12 based on stops for food, gas and a trip to the Bass Pro Shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut. James love to swim and

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Cape Cod Camping Trip

July 5, 2016

We are about to head to Cape Cod for a week of camping in Nickerson State Park and we are often asked how we can pack so little when traveling so I want to show you our method. Last year when packing

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Learning to code - Tools you should use

July 4, 2016

I know I said that this lesson would be about links, file paths and how to organize your files but let's move that to the next lesson so we can get you the tools that will make this entire process much

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Learning to code - Images and Styles

June 30, 2016

In the last tutorial I showed you how to get started with HTML, how to add tags and how to see your results in your browser window. The reason we are starting with HTML is because it is very easy to learn,

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District Doughnut? Yes Please!

June 29, 2016

District Doughnut is our newest addition to our list of reasons to explore M Street in Georgetown, Washington DC. This place is fun and simple, they have unique and creative doughnuts and coffee. Everything

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Learning to code from scratch

June 27, 2016

After posting my first code tutorial I realized that maybe I needed to start from the beginning. I know a lot of people that are interested in learning how to build web sites and learn to write code but

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Email List Changes

June 21, 2016

I have made some changes to how our email list works. Now you can choose which topics you would like to receive by email, so if you don't really care about the great restaurants that we find or you just

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MCN Workshop Outline

June 10, 2016

I've been working on my outline for the workshop and this is what I have so far. There will be some work for the participants before the workshop but I will have some pretty good instructions for them

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I'm speaking at the Museum Computer Network this year

June 9, 2016

I received the confirmation from MCN (The Museum Computer Network) conference that they would like me to present this year. So it looks like I have my work cut out for me because I put together a very

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Duplicating a Collection View for the Web

June 6, 2016

A CollectionView in iOS (and tvOS) is a view that displays a grid of items. This is a pre-built view and is very easy to use in the iOS environment. The problem is that there is no really basic way to

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Nautical Charts as Clocks?

June 1, 2016

On our recent trip to Annapolis, Maryland we were walking through town when we passed a shop that had the most amazing clocks on display in the window. After walking inside we quickly realized that they

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Blue Angels in Annapolis

May 31, 2016

Last week was graduation week from the US Naval Academy and on Wednesday the Blue Angels were performing over the campus in Annapolis, Maryland. Because this was only an hour drive away and the Blue Angels

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The film project

May 30, 2016

Not long ago I started a new project, this one deals with films and has been a great learning experience. I am building this project for the web, iOS and also tvOS so keeping things consistent across

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DC Blizzard

February 1, 2016

I'm about a week late in posting this but there is still snow on the ground for now so it's not too late. I shot some time lapse video of our crazy blizzard last Friday night and Saturday morning and I

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Keeping your information secure online

December 8, 2015

I am in the process of moving my web content to a new hosting service because my previous host was pretty far behind in their security configurations. They still allow MD5 encryption as an option for

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Image fun continues

September 16, 2015

I've made more progress since initially discovering the fun that can be had when playing with web servers and image requests. I have several nice log files of every site that is linking to my images,

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Web developer strikes again

September 15, 2015

Yesterday's post made me curious, could I possibly do more than just swap images that someone was hot linking to? As it turns out, yes I can. So I am not only swapping the images for those that are

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Another hack web developer...

September 14, 2015

I received a Google Alert this morning telling me that someone was talking about Sandra's website online. Here is a screen capture of the email: I followed the links and discovered a Pinterest knockoff

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We are Sandra and Chris, and this is OurBigAdventure, the story of our experiences and favorite things all in one place so we can share them with you.

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