The weather was absolutely perfect for a day at the Edina Art Fair!

Crowds of people walk through the outdoor Edina Art Fair on a sunny day, with a large welcome banner and information booth visible.

Last Day of School 2014

Young girl with a bob haircut wearing a blue graphic tee and pink backpack smiling outdoors near a school with other kids lining up behind her.

Mazie was super excited to be done with school for the summer. We have a 4th grader in the house now! The whole neighborhood celebrated as kids ran all over to start the summer off right!

NASDAQ SPS Commerce Market Bell Ceremony

On Tuesday of this week I got to be part of the SPS team ringing the market bell to start the trading day on NASDAQ! It was a ton of fun.

Group of smiling people waving at the NASDAQ podium with SPS Commerce logo displayed on a large screen behind them

Should add more photos and video to this post.

Good morning espresso.

Espresso pouring from a dual-spout portafilter into a small illy branded white cup on a stainless steel drip tray.

Fun morning with #TeamSPS opening the NASDAQ trading day!

Woman in blue skirt stands before massive NASDAQ stock ticker display wall showing market indices and company stocks at a TV studio.

Been up since 2 AM with son. Doing that “swish cold press coffee under your tongue” trick to get big jolts of caffeine.

House of Cards (Season 2)

Tammy and I just finished watching season 2 of House of Cards. What a great show! I just cannot get enough of Kevin Spacey.

Man in dark suit leaning over a large wooden desk flanked by two American flags in a formal office setting

Just learned that you cannot wear two different plaids at the same time. Worth noting.

Why WikiApiary uses pages and not articles

A while back @Waldyrious posed this question about WikiApiary.

The full answer is actually found in my talk page on WikiApiary. Articles are a construct that each wiki can manage. MediaWiki tries to create these two classes of content: Pages and Articles. The intent being that pages are in some way less like “content” than articles. The metrics for determining this are configurable, but I’m guessing nearly everyone leaves it at the defaults. I felt that the page concept, just looking at content and not judging if it was better or worse was a simpler way to look at thousands of different wikis.

Wanted: Dash Docset for MediaWiki

I really wish there were a Dash Docset for MediaWiki. The directions for creating docsets are pretty straightforward. It also strikes me that using pandoc to do wikitext to html you could convert existing help pages into HTML and make the Docset.

Maybe someone else will read this and think it is a great idea and do it.