My newest website design is HTML5 & CSS3 valid. I continue to expolre the new web technologies. The Archived Content holds over 1,200 pages of content published between April 2002 and July 2010 accumulating 5,000,000 page views and over 100 million hits.
I'm also interested in Amazon Web Services and many of my experiences with those technologies are documented on my NewAdventures blog in various categories.
As an artist I created over 240 digital art images, one of my favorites, Intertwined Rings is shown below in an alternate form.
Don and Sherry's 40th Wedding Anniversary April 21, 2013.
Toastmaters Comments Ten Years Later February 14, 2013.
Ten years ago I visited a local Toastmaster club. I attended a few meetings and became a member on April 1, 2003. I spent five years with that club, ending my membership on March 31, 2008.
For each of those five years the club achieved the top club award, Presidents Distinguished Club. The club members worked as an effective team helping each other to better ourselves.
Because we cared, we achieved our individual and club goals. We accomplished the Toastmasters Mission by staying true to the Toastmaster Vision and true to our own individual values.
Don's Newbound, Inc., Business Card as of February 1, 2013.
Newbound, Inc., is a Federal Registered SBA Small Business. Below is an image of my new business card with explanatory links to what the government codes at the bottom-right mean.
Redesign of Newbound, Inc.'s, Website Updated December 12, 2012
My business partner, Marc Raiser, just completed a great redesign of our corporate website! We discussed some of the suggestions our marketing consultant gave us last summer and then Marc dived in for cool results.
Please take a look around on our website and see the new look!
Redesign of Newbound, Inc.'s, Website Updated December 12, 2012
My business partner, Marc Raiser, just completed a great redesign of our corporate website! We discussed some of the suggestions our marketing consultant gave us last summer and then Marc dived in for cool results.
It tells about how I became a teacher at Trition College in River Grove, IL back in 1983.
5 Year Anniversary at Newbound, Inc. October 24, 2012
In October 2007 I became a partner in Newbound, Inc., and since then served as the company's President. Along with my other partner, Marc A. Raiser, we grew our business through the recession.
Currently I also serve as the Chief Project Officer (CPO), Secretary, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), keeping our company running smoothly.
I'm finishing up work on my iPad2 App that will connect with our Newbound Server software (NSL) soon to be availble for sale. We've used the NSL for many years in our consulting projects.
Xcode 4.4.1 and iOS 5.1.1 JSON Parse Into Core Data and Display iPad Example September 3, 2012
Newbound’s Small Business Association (S.B.A.) Certification June 26, 2012
One of my other Newbound Inc., major projects is now complete. My business partner and I have been working on this since late January of this year. As our company's Chief Project Officer (CPO) it was my job to schedule out the effort and communicate between all parties involved to keep us on-track. Both Marc and I are very proud of our joint contributions to achieve this important strategic recognition.
Newbound, Inc., is now Small Business Association Certified to work on Federal projects and work with others so certified. This is part of our company's plan to move our company up in stature and garner more business including our upcoming software sales later this summer.
Our Daughter's New Vice President Position June 7, 2012
After 14 years at the first company right out of college, and advancing along the way there from being an Associate to a Senior Director of Global Supplier Management my daughter just accepted an executive position with a new employer at a prestigious financial assets firm that's been in business over 100 years in downtown Chicago.
Her new title is Vice President of Global Procurement. She reports to a Senior Vice President.
My wife, Sherry and I are very proud of how she's managed her career since college, all the while with her husband of twelve years, raising two young children.
Xcode 4.3.2 and iOS 5.1.1 JSON Parse And Display iPad Example June 5, 2012
A small version of one of them is of Coronado Island Beach is shown below.
Sherry and Don's 39th Anniversary Celebration April 21, 2012
Sherry and I married on Saturday April 21, 1973 in a small town in Wisconsin. This year we celebrated by enjoying a nice lunch and then attending a Padres baseball game.
The linked page has the photos and associated narrative of our special day. Below the Padres have the bases loaded against the Philly's.
The Xcode project file and related prtesentation data are included as two links in that tutorial.
Added iOS Home Page Icon March 1, 2012
My friend, Jeff Rutan, helped me today by creating a new Time Out Of Mind icon to use on my iPad2 Home Page for the direct link to my iOS section on my NewAdventures blog. The new large icon is shown below.
It's stored at the root level of my web server so that anyone with an iOS device should be able to use it as an iOS Home Page Icon to directly access a selected associate page on any of the sections on Time Out Of Mind.
Time Out Of Mind Continues It's Path February 4, 2012
The archived and this new section of this website continue to enjoy accumulating over 3,000 page views a week.
The NewAdventure blog section by itself accumulates over 400 page views a week.
My Simple iOS 5 Xcode 4.2 Tutorial January 23, 2012
The Xcode project file included as a link in that post.
Me in 1977 January 20, 2012
I recently discovered this picture of me taken in 1977 and scanned it into my photo collection.
My First Home: The Stony Island Trailer Park Map 1955 January 12, 2012
While on our recent trip to the Chicago area for the Christmas holidays, my brother gave me a pencil map of the trailer park we lived in until 1956. I had it converted to a pdf linked below.
Our trailer was the place my late father slipped into a coma never to recover in November 1955.
Some of the places indicated on the map I remember, others not. It remains a special place to me.
The full size tiff image (click to expand and scroll) displayed below is from my Xcode 4.2 project window on my 24-inch iMac for the Checklists project.
First Annual PMI-San Diego Golf Tournament September 29, 2011
My project management group is holding an open golf tournament on Saturday October 29, 2011 to benefit the PMI-SD Scolarships and Canine Companions for Independence.
On Friday our daughter was promoted to a newly created position, Senior Director of Global Supplier Management. She now will oversee two Managing Directors she will hire to her staff. She's been with her company since she graduated college in 1998, starting as an Associate. I lost track of the promotions they've created for her.
My upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion OS July 29, 2011
I published my comments concering my Mac upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Lion OS (10.7) on my NewAdventures blog.
My First iOS Native Application July 7, 2011
Today I built my first iOS Native Application and wrote about it on my NewAdventures blog.
A screenshot of it running is shown below.
My First ePub eBook July 3, 2011
Today I published my first ePub eBook document, Deer Woman Moon, on my NewAdventures blog.
It can be loaded into iBooks or another Ebook reader that handles the ePub format.
I received my Black 32GB WiFi iPad2 today (home screen shown below). I started loading the business software I need on it immediatly. I also loaded some eBooks and found I like the iBooks feature a lot.
Don and Sherry's 38th Wedding Anniversary April 21, 2011
We were married thirty-eight years ago on April 21st. We continue in love all along. It's not important how you start out in marriage, it's how you last together. :-)
Below are two pictures of the celebration after our wonderful dinner at the nearby Tony Roma's Restaurant.
SDiOS Meeting #6 Synopsis March 31, 2011
Jeff Rutan, leader of the SDiOS group wrote his description of my Dashcode presentation I gave before the group on March 28, 2011.
