We went to Table 31 at the base of the Comcast center for dinner tonight. It was an excellent restaurant week menu. Most of the places doing restaurant week push the up-sell pretty hard but this was an exception. They had the all inclusive $35 menu on the table. Even better they had a selection of wines under $50 that they recommended and our was very nice. The waiter was very nice and handled my ‘special needs’ diet. Well at least I think that he did, but I’ll know for sure tomorrow if I accidentally ingested some wheat. ...

So tonight my 10 year old decided that she wanted to learn flash. We are going through a basic tutorial but she decided to make a cat (rather then a circle) walk across the screen. This is clearly scope creep! There was budgeted time after dinner and before bed for a circle slide, not a walking mammal. After some time she said that it didn’t look right and wanted to spend more time in order to make it walk more realistically. I said that it was bedtime. Like any good developer faced with their project time getting cut she looked to reduce scope. ...

The first round of ‘official’ speakers set the bar pretty high for refreshPhilly. Tom Boutell from www.punkave.com gave us a talk on symphony and set the tone of the crowd as a hardcore web devs followed by Phil Charron and Russ Starke who brilliently challenged us to the core. Dragging up memories of aquaman they threw down the simple question: So what exactly are we going to do for Philly?

Philadelphia: 1, England 0 [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“Philly mummers”][/caption] [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“180” caption=“English Mummers”][/caption]

While hunting online for that movie with the couple who pay thier neighbors to act normal so they can sell thier home I got redirected to this nicely done virus page. Its a convincing experience to get the user to download and install the application. I wonder if these criminals would be open to oursourcing some IA work that I need done????? [caption id=“attachment_114” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Well done social engineerig page to install a virus”][/caption] ...