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Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:22 am
by onion2k
Happy Christmas chaps and chappesses*. Have a brilliant holiday, and an awesome New Year.

Woo! :drunk:

* Firefox tries to correct "chappesses" to "happiness". How cool is that?

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:06 am
by The_Anomaly
Merry Christmas!

And chappesses. Never heard that one before.

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:57 am
by onion2k
The_Anomaly wrote:And chappesses. Never heard that one before.
I make up new words. One day one will catch on and I'll be all famous and stuff.

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:55 am
by matthijs
Didn't know the time zone differences span 3 days. We still have to work a couple of days ...
(you so badly wanted to be the first, isn't it?)

But lots of happiness anyway for everybody! :drunk:

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:29 am
by onion2k
matthijs wrote:Didn't know the time zone differences span 3 days. We still have to work a couple of days ...
(you so badly wanted to be the first, isn't it?)

But lots of happiness anyway for everybody! :drunk:
It doesn't. I'm just early.

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:18 pm
by volomike
I made it, the entire year, without having to draw off a single credit card. I'm working towards the day, perhaps in Q1 2010, when I can call into that AM radio show and scream, "WE'RE DEBT FREE!!!!!!"

Under the tree, my son has some skateboards, an electric guitar, and an amp. My daughter, a keyboard and the latest ipod.

And I've never had to build any adult entertainment websites (and never have and never will). Thus, no extortion letters sent to my wife's employment! Yay!

My thanks goes out to Nathan Malone, Eduardo Vivas, and Evan Baker. Each of them are angels who saw me down and out a year ago and either got me to realize how to do this business, or gave me a contract and said they believed in me. Nathan taught me to shut down the voices in my head saying I couldn't do this, and helped me set my rates and my advertising. Eduardo and Evan flew me out to Chicago, met me in a limo, put me up for a week in a room costing $440 a night, and gave me my first stable contract until I found more stable footing. Even though Eduardo and Evan sadly split off from me because I realized I wasn't the best fit for their difficult needs, I am still very grateful to them. And through the year, I realized what works for me, and what doesn't.

Many thanks also goes out to the regulars here on Devnet and Stack Overflow, and especially to the demigod, John Resig, the founder of jQuery, and Mike Alsup, the maker of some great jQuery plugins. I also want to thank Ruck of CashTactics.net and the forum regulars of WickedFire. And I can't thank enough all the developers who work constantly on Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu Linux, Apache 2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and PHP.

And I don't just thank you -- my wife and children thank you too. Because without all of this help, I would be back on a plane, flying around as a consultant, living out of my suitcase and motels, missing my family and children, my health steadily declining from being overworked. And now, would have probably been confronted with a layoff. This year, my wife and children saw more of me than they had seen in the last 12 years.

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:02 pm
by alex.barylski
Whoa Mike...that sounded like an Emmy awards acceptance speech. :)

At least now, you know that if for whatever reason you no longer wish to write PHP applications, you have a solid career in Ghost writing for actors. Haha.

Just teasing, I'm glad to hear of your prosperity and successes in life, now how about sharing some of those secrets with the less fortunate...namely me :)

The first time I visited a client I paid for my own airfare and was put up in the cheapest hotel I could find on Hotels.com.

Honestly...it was one of my proudest moments...and sure beat pumping gas at minus 40 C :)

Cheers,
Alex

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:58 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Happy Crimbo! :D

/still doesn't feel like xmas here... not wintery enough.

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:47 pm
by Luke
Guess what I got all of you guys...






Nothing! :)


Merry Christmas!!

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:14 pm
by John Cartwright
While were making up holiday names...

Happy Jcart day everybody!!


P.S. Merry X-mass and/or Happy Holidays!

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:29 pm
by Luke
Well you should have at least called it "Jcart-mas"!

Re: Merry Christmas

Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:19 am
by alex.barylski
/still doesn't feel like xmas here... not wintery enough.
That would be weird...I have never spent Xmas anywhere but Winnipeg...I feel bad for you so I tell ya what I'm gonna do...

Send me your Postal address, details, etc...and I'll mail you some snow and ice...we have plenty of cold here to share with the world:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAMB0244

Apparently in Aussieland they have Xmas BBQ's and traditional Pig Roasts and go down to the beach and play in the water...this is what I've been told anyways.

Meh...Santa/Satan (weird never noticed that before --- both red too) lives only about 1200 KM North of me and Winnipeg is one of the first places he's vectored too after takeoff.

I watch that friggen guy like a Hawk on that Norad radar... :lol:

Cheers,
Alex