Potty Training has begun in earnest this week at the Simoneau household. Kindof a “throw you in the deep end” philosophy. We put Timothy in “big-boy pants” on Monday and just started prompting. He’s gone by himself several times and yesterday he only had a couple of accidents in the morning.

And to support this, we’ve been watching this “potty” video about how to go to the bathroom. Man does it get old fast–but the kids love it! Plus, it seems to be fairly effective.

But now I’m singing it under my breath in a meeting. Darn those catchy kids-music writers!

Hey everyone, I know I am still nearly 5 months behind, but all of the April pictures are up now.

Catching up a week at a time. Hopefully we’ll be caught up by the time Timothy’s birthday party comes around!

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I have to say that I bought into the awesomeness of rails. I love it. It’s a great framework that teaches you to keep convention–rather than having some insane ability to configure every nook and cranny. Convention is good.

However, PHP is performant–and even though it’s old and “busted” — it can run sites like Wikipedia, CD Baby and even 37 Signals — the creators of Rails! It’s mature.

The article linked to by Mr. Shivers (of CDBaby) basically says that new programming languages are like new girlfriends. They’re not better–YOU’RE better for knowing them. So, go to rails, learn it, love it, have a great time with it. Then pick the right tool for the job and use what you’ve learned across your whole career to do things right.