Since I got a new camera and what to become better at photography I am going to post up once a week some of the best shots from the week.

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Some people may not realize, but I like photography and will spend a lot of time looking at photography on the internet.  My dad actually was an amatuer photographer for a while and took several classes to get better and has passed on a little of that knowledge to me.  The biggest problem is I have never had a quality camera that could take a quality picture.  Today I did a little bit of reasearch on ultra compact cameras for around $200, and found an amazing one for the price that a lot of profesionals said for the price is an amzing point and shoot camera.  So I got it.

This camera is to be a multi funcation camera for me.  I will try to carry it with me always so that I have the oppertunity to take some pictures I have always wished i had a camera for.  Also it is a camera that takes good high quality pictures (8 megapixels) so if I do get that good shot it will be a good picture quality wise.  It will also get me started down the path of being a better photographer as it will allow me to take a LOT more pictures anytime I want so that I can get better.

As a test I took some pictures of our dog playing fetch in our living room and here is the results.  Note that I know nothing about any settings on the camera at all.  This is just me pointing and clicking after throwing the ball. So if they suck its not me. If they are good then I have amazing raw talent ;) LOL

If you are into photography and have any tips please let me know what you think.  If you are in the market for a good inexpensive camera that takes good pictures I think this one is it.

For a while now I have tried to push for more beginner content on the web to help developers bridge the gap from beginner to intermediate.  Unfortunatly, it hasn't been the most successful since I haven't pushed very hard in public just nudges here and there.  So with that I have decided to give it a shot myself and started a Beginnermediate community.

http://beginnermediate.com

I am moving all of my programming posts over there and am gathering other bloggers as well that are willing to primarly post beginner to intermediate level content. This doesn't mean more advanced topics like dependency injection and Inversion of Control wont be talked about.  This just means there is a lot of other stuff that needs to be understood before then.

I am not stopping this blog by any means.  In fact I have wanted a place where I can post about anime, building stuff for my jeep, and just general thoughts for a while now.  So that is what this blog is going to become which means I am probably going to lose a lot of subscribers right there.  Please stick around if any of that is interesting to you.

If you would like to help Beginnermediate community grow please visit the site (http://beginnermediate.com) register and start asking questions on the forum and answering them too.  Also please read blog posts and comment as much as possible.  If you would like to blog there please hit me with an e-mail (cross posting is allowed).  Also we will eventually take requests for stuff to post on so please start gathering questions you would like to know about on programming concepts.

Thanks and hope to see you over at beginnermediate.com
Buddy

P.S. Please also check out the first tech blog post over there "Immutable and Mutable Objects in C#"

I want to thank all those that came to my talk.  I have added the files for you to download.  Just a note you will need to edit web.config file for connecting to the DB.

OOP_TechFest_2008_Presentation.zip (737.83 kb)

I try to visit Pirate 4x4 when I can to read about jeeps.  The biggest problem is that the color scheme hurst my eyes after a while.  So I found out about Greasemonkey for FireFox and you can write custom scripts to edit "stuff" on a website.  So I found a quick piece of javascript code on a site for editing css and modified it for Pirate 4x4.  So to install and use it here are the instructions

1) Install Greasemonkey for firefox.
2) Visit the script home for "New Pirate 4x4 Colors" and click install this script on the right.
3) Visit Pirate 4x4 forums and seee it change the colors.

Note:

So that you know when you load up the page it will load up the normal colors then once the page is done it will execute the Greasemonky script and change the colors.

Hope you find it useful.