Hieroglyphs of Jeryl Cook

Vanitysoft Consulting

2010-04-17T22:13:00.006-05:00

www.vanity-soft.com So I finally started my own Company which specializes in building Business Intelligence Service Components for our customers.

Trapped in Mexico City during flu outbreak!

2009-10-30T11:50:00.003-05:00

This experience was interesting! the immigration line into Mexico City was completely empty , except for me and another American ..

In the Republic of Benin.

2009-10-30T10:04:00.002-05:00

sometime after my bike accident!

IC Visionary Designs

2009-07-24T16:11:00.003-05:00

My very good friend Shukriyyah started a Interior Design company called IC Visionary Design last year and it is doing great! Her skill and ability to pay attention to detail is impeccable!Check her out: IC Visionary Design

2009-05-31T20:43:00.000-05:00

Jeryl Cook's ProfileCreate Your Badge

2009-03-25T21:33:00.000-05:00

Had a good business trip to Deventer,NL

2008-12-07T02:16:00.000-05:00

Me on the Greek Island of Corfu

1967, wasn't the best year for most but the below is funny :)

2008-04-29T12:02:00.000-05:00

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes to his own car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2007 - School goes into lock-down, and FBI is called. Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and

2008-03-28T23:05:00.000-05:00

View from hotel while in Manila, Philippines!

2008-03-28T22:55:00.002-05:00

Parents 50th Anniversary

In India

2008-03-28T22:51:00.000-05:00

Quite possibly the best development team in New Delhi, India!

:)

2008-02-11T12:42:00.000-05:00

Beatles' mystical guru dies - CNN.com

2008-02-06T10:30:00.000-05:00

Beatles' mystical guru dies - CNN.comWe need more people like this in the world.

W3C Opens Data on the Web with SPARQL

2008-01-31T09:57:00.000-05:00

W3C Opens Data on the Web with SPARQL

Great minds at work!

2008-01-10T21:20:00.000-05:00

Got this the other day, interesting...This is weid but fun really! Only great minds can read this!! fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the

Building in Richmond

2007-07-21T00:11:00.000-05:00

Nice shoot from my rebel Xt!

Windows Live Writer

2007-06-22T10:58:00.001-05:00

Just downloaded the "Windows Live Writer" , to hopefully allow me to update my blog more often..looks to be a very good program.

Fault Tolerance with Open Source and JVM Clustering

2007-04-27T10:57:00.000-05:00

Fault Tolerance with Open Source and JVM Clustering— Many in the Open Source community (including the camps following Tomcat, Geronimo, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate) have chosen to focus on solving problems of developer efficiency and software elegance, and are sometimes forced to leave production operating characteristics such as HA (high availability)/fault tolerance and central management

Second in the world buddy..

2007-04-12T12:03:00.000-05:00

Surprise, Surprise….My new position doesn’t require me to code as much as I use to...., so I found my self answer questions from fellow developers just before work, and sometimes in the evening on “TheServerSide”..to keep my “skills” sharp!looks like I came in second in all posters in the world this week !!!! They should give out prizes…...Over a million people come to this site..i wonder how

2007-03-21T21:06:00.000-05:00

Its been a good ride! Went down to Richmond to drop off my favorite automobile to my folks!, I hope they drive it with the top down!

Go Colts!

2007-02-04T22:00:00.000-05:00

It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company

2007-02-01T11:18:00.000-05:00

It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong CompanyTell me who your best friends are and I will tell you who you are. Ifyou run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associatewith eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. "A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown bythe kind of friends he chooses." The simple but true fact of life isthat you

2007-01-28T11:11:00.000-05:00

Finally snowed in MD..! Neo didn’t like it.(ok , I put him out there to see what he will do!)anyway., he hissed at me when he go back in the house as if to say “Do that again and you give you a tattoo on you face while your sleeping...”

2007-01-15T10:26:00.000-05:00

At jeff and monica's house before going to dinner for birthday.

2007-01-15T10:18:00.000-05:00

Out Celebrating Mom's 70th birthday Jan. 12!

2007-01-01T22:14:00.000-05:00

Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! :)

Egyptian Art

2006-12-23T15:50:00.000-05:00

A Christmas gift to myself(a few years ago),I will attempt to hang these up using Hercules Hook's , they better work!What’s with the "Pharaoh" obsession Jeryl?All good programmers have a code name , Mine happens to be "Pharaoh"!..I’ve used the name "Pharaoh" to sign all code since the late 80s...while i sat in the basement programming in BASIC on my Tandy 2000. :).

2006-12-20T10:38:00.000-05:00

Mountains of Arizona

2006-11-27T23:53:00.000-05:00

Mom with cousin Jose'

2006-10-04T09:06:00.000-05:00

When I was at Hampton U, the plan was to move to NY, of course I landed in D.C instead�I wanted to be in the big-city where everything is fast, everything. BUT...being in DC for over 6 years now, I am starting to re-think my next move .. also conversation with a friend of mine changed my mind.....I came across a condo in Cali, San Diego why I have been starting at for like 15 minutes?? I�m

2006-10-01T10:20:00.000-05:00

2006-09-30T17:17:00.000-05:00

Upgraded my Computer(almost 1k worth), just to play this game :).

2006-09-27T18:19:00.000-05:00

Blog trends.

Big Ups to Cheryl :)

2006-09-27T13:13:00.000-05:00

My Sister won Employee of the Year at her company :)..Cheryl Cook is the 2006 National Staffing Employee of the Year. A contract employee on assignment at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department, she is the director of E-GOALS, the bureau’s online survey and performance measurement system.Cheryl's company

2006-09-04T16:08:00.000-05:00

made it,..notice the sky? yes it started to rain after i snapped this one!, well another 45 minutes later I finally made it back, Neo greeted me at the door with "Where is my food?.." .

2006-09-04T16:06:00.000-05:00

almost..

2006-09-04T16:05:00.000-05:00

Luckily ever programmer must have a laptop(cell phone to internet hookup of course.) at all times�so I got hooked up and used mapquest to figure where I needed to go�.sux to be me, because the road I needed to get to was a few miles through this�Ah well, it is a hybrid bike�

2006-09-04T15:56:00.000-05:00

I decided to take a sort-of short cut, back home through a street I knew existed a few years back� their has been a lot of growth in the Charles county area, so they decided to remove some streets!(I guess I did not get the memo..) ..I rode at least 40 minutes to see this sight�I had no idea which way to go..

10 miles!(technically 20miles i have to go back.

2006-09-04T12:22:00.000-05:00

Made to Panera Bread in Wardorf , I only got beeped twice. However, I stopped by the Mall to buy some bike equipment it dawned on me suppose I have a flat! which has wireless, …anyway mapquest says it was 9miles I had to stop twice, because my legs where burning, I’m debating should I order my usual large white mocha(extra shot of course) and gain back the 300 or so calories burned on my trip up

2006-09-04T08:22:00.000-05:00

I just brought a Marin Fairfax Performance Hybrid bike, its about 9am, I am going to ride my bike up to the bookstore and back(10miles), if u don�t see another blog-post I�m in a ditch.

2006-08-26T13:29:00.000-05:00

final game board., check out the rook where his pawn was LOL.

2006-08-26T13:28:00.000-05:00

However the dude on the right(black hat, white shirt) to advantage of his excitment on being focused on that side of the board....moved his rook back one a round, thenmoved it to take out his pawn..which cost him the game!see the rook where one of his pawns once was..LESSON LEARNED TODAY: "Don't talk about it, just do it!"

"..I got 3 on the man up!"

2006-08-26T13:26:00.000-05:00

Walking around DC yesterday after meeting a friend of lunch..spotted into a very intense chess game happening on 16th.."I got three on the man up!,....You see...I got three on the man up!..." dude on the left in green repeated this i think like 20 times, while sipping on something in a bag..he was referring to 3 pawns on that attack to be made a queen....

The FBI computer upgrade that wasn’t

2006-08-19T23:25:00.000-05:00

"SAIC was at fault because of the usual contractor reluctance to tell the customer, 'You're screwed up. You don't know what you're doing. This project is going to fail because you're not managing your side of the equation,' " said Kay, who later became the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq. "There was no one to tell the government that they were asking the impossible. And they -weren't going

2006-08-19T23:05:00.000-05:00

"You know all those security scenarios we ran through? We're smack in the middle of one we didn't think of."I bet this movie will be the best of the summer, I am headed to see it

People come in your life for a reason.

2006-08-13T14:18:00.000-05:00

PEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASONPeople come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically,

2006-08-13T11:11:00.000-05:00

'>This is why we are not going to make it.Where is the ATF?? because i can't believe this is legal.Kids,Grandmas,etc. shooting Assualt weapons with smiles! Nothing says "nice family outing" like a bunch of kids at a firing range with automatic weapons.

2006-08-13T10:49:00.000-05:00

Beach of the coast of Punta Cuna, can't wait to go back..

2006-08-13T10:46:00.000-05:00

walked in the door from work, and i saw Neo like this..i thought he was dead.

2006-08-13T10:45:00.000-05:00

friends of mine, headed out to party in DC.

2006-08-13T10:43:00.000-05:00

I was in Domincan Republic for a few days back in July... I stopped by this little spot in Domincan Republic for drinks & food, the people where very friendly, I am thinking about taking a spanish class,

2006-08-13T10:39:00.000-05:00

Bahamas, as of 2006 this resort is still damaged from hurricane of 2002!

2006-08-13T10:38:00.000-05:00

watching the master-chief do her thing!

2006-08-13T10:31:00.000-05:00

dads birthday at jeff & monica's house , showing off his b-day gifts :))

2006-08-13T10:08:00.000-05:00

parents in back yard of home

2006-08-13T10:07:00.000-05:00

Pops birthday :)

2006-08-13T10:05:00.000-05:00

jeff & monica at dinner party in richmond

2006-08-13T10:04:00.000-05:00

B-Day cake

2006-08-13T10:02:00.000-05:00

since im on the only person with the camera this my only shot at the party

2006-05-06T12:54:00.000-05:00

I was out on the town lounge hopping last night with from friends, and we went to this middle eastern foodshop on the corner of U street NW... I've lived in the "Capital of the world"(Washington DC) and have yet tried really any ethnic authentic food other than Mexican(favorite is Laurel Plaza off 18th) ..I must say this is one of the best sandwiches I ever tasted! I think I'm going to make a

2006-04-27T07:14:00.000-05:00

2 days ago I was sitting on the on a beach staring at the waves in the Bahamas, this is actually a picture i took ..*mental note* be sure to take pictures with myself in them!..

2006-01-01T10:07:00.000-05:00

Happy New year!

2005-12-31T14:39:00.000-05:00

Neo somehow thought the surface of the water in the tub needed to be explored...

Congress decided to have debates about the killing of Christmas.

2005-12-29T17:32:00.000-05:00

Congress decided to have debates about the killing of Christmas. Here is an actual passage/poem by Congressman Dingell.'Twas the week before Christmas and all through the House,no bills were passed 'bout which Fox News could grouse.Tax cuts for the wealthy were passed with great cheer,so vacations in St. Barts soon should be near.Katrina kids were all nestled snug in motel beds,while visions of

I need to put on some shades when looking at this!

2005-12-29T15:31:00.000-05:00

My Sister and her Boyfriend got engaged on Christmas! :)..my brother proposed on christmas also last year.. guess thats a trend huh..

Weblogic 8.1 SP2 and Acegi framework

2005-12-18T11:23:00.000-05:00

Here is a Workaround for Weblogic 8.1 SP2 withAcegi framework.BEA has fixed the problem in SP3..but I did not have the luxury of upgrading Weblogic in the middle of a deployment..lesson learned(Always develop on the sameversion that is in production).I used Spring 1.2.5 DelegatingFilterProx which was "inspired" by the filterToBean cousin located in the Acegi package.

Spring and Weblogic.

2005-12-06T21:23:00.000-05:00

Spring Integration with WebLogic Server by Andy Piper, Rod Johnson, Chris Wall and Nick Tran -- WebLogic Server 9.0 provides a platform for enhanced management, ease-of-use and scalability of Java applications. The Spring Framework enables a simpler, POJO based, approach to J2EE development without sacrificing the power of the platform. This article describes the synergy of these two systems, and

2005-11-26T11:42:00.000-05:00

2005-11-23T11:21:00.000-05:00

20 infected files, 3 processes(virus programs running!), Symantec cleaned the whole box.

2005-11-23T10:13:00.000-05:00

bad luck.

2005-11-22T23:39:00.000-05:00

Would you beleive i opened this on accident now i injected my computer...:(

2005-10-23T22:50:00.000-05:00

jeff and me.. the wedding was held at my our church my father(far left) pastored.

2005-10-23T22:48:00.000-05:00

mother of bride

2005-10-23T22:44:00.000-05:00

Me giving the bestman toast to the my brother and his wife!, my friend Akin grab my speach that I took a week writing and was like 'don't read that, keep it real' LOL. It turned out to be the the best free-style-speach I have every said..

2005-10-23T22:41:00.000-05:00

Jeff & Monica

That old dude.

2005-10-19T04:19:00.000-05:00

Just turned 30 today, and the world did not disappear so maybe things will be OK.

2005-10-16T20:30:00.000-05:00

I just got back from Richmond , serving as th Best man to my cloned brother jeff :), i will post some pictures of the wedding soon..

2005-10-02T20:58:00.000-05:00

Summer time is officially over, but today while driving around La Plata today it felt like June..

GoogleWhack

2005-09-18T09:12:00.000-05:00

I am offically not GoogleWhack

Born again blogger.

2005-09-18T08:59:00.000-05:00

I woke up this morning, looked out the window, and made a pact with myself that I will update this blog once every day with a picture and a comment. I know noone is reading this so i don't think i'll make a ripple in cyber-space. :)

2005-09-03T08:06:00.000-05:00

I heard alot about this guy.

2005-09-02T20:59:00.000-05:00

Very Interesting article on the Katrina resposne.

The classic LazyInitializationException

2005-08-27T10:07:00.000-05:00

public class CategoryDAOImplextends HibernateDaoSupportimplements ICategoryDAO{//~ Methods -------------------------------------public List loadAll( ) {return getHibernateTemplate( ).loadAll( Category.class );}public List loadAllWithChildren(){return getHibernateTemplate().find("from Category category left join fetch category.children");}}I've seen a million and one post about how to load object

CB

2005-05-03T20:46:00.000-05:00

Stop the press, Cassandra Burton has Graduated from law school !! :)

CNN.com - Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web - Mar 15, 2004

2005-03-26T00:25:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web - Mar 15, 2004 RSS

Critics call for great white shark's release

2005-03-10T18:47:00.000-05:00

"Free Big Al!"Why do we(hummans) do this? I feel like this shark is thinking ‘why the heck am I in here? , im going to kill anything that touches me until my release!Aquarium officials believe the 88-pound, 5-foot-3-inch shark attacked the smaller, slower animals only as a reflex when it bumped the other sharks, not in a predatory rage."Van Sommeran said the million-gallon tank where the shark

2005-02-26T23:26:00.000-05:00

more pictures..

2005-02-26T23:24:00.000-05:00

The gates look very nice in person New York, i honestly was not impressed with the pictures and hyped, UNTIL I got there it is amazing,..Christo and Jeanne-Claude sketches where on display(and for sell) also, it was interesting to see how they imagined the gates would look like and made it happen..very creative work!

2005-02-19T13:07:00.000-05:00

I guess this is the only snow we are getting this winter!

my twin

2005-01-21T01:47:00.000-05:00

My brother has recieved 40 years to life(proposed to his gf.) on xmas day ! :)..

2004-12-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

This happen right down the street from me!...when i moved out here 3 years ago, it was almost all forest..

2004-11-18T10:33:00.000-05:00

this is Neo, yes off the matrix.

2004-11-18T09:36:00.000-05:00

So, my cat Neo woke me up with wet paws..it turns out that he(the cat) left the water on and look what happen :(

2004-11-03T00:06:00.000-05:00

I am headed to bed, what will i see when i check out cnn.com tommorw!?? who is going to be the winner?!]

2004-11-01T21:17:00.000-05:00

i would say it took me only 3 full weeks to get the hang of hibernate and then intergrated in a project it with spring. Compared to a drilling 6-8 months to get on top of J2EE. The features of spring/hibernate compared to CMP using entity beans in an application server(JBoss) are numerous, one standout feature for me is use hibernate all the way, with entity beans the special sql grammer just

2004-10-31T19:48:00.000-05:00

I was at so much peace when I took this picture, it was the first vacation I've taken since graduating from school which was about 4 years ago..

Birthday Party.

2004-10-31T19:42:00.000-05:00

Friends and sister cheryl gave me and my clone(twin, on the right) a suprise birthday party on oct. 19th, i hit my 29th birthday, 1 more year to go and its the big 3 0.

2004-10-30T09:12:00.000-05:00

soo i wish i was doing this right now..