It seems that everyone is doing this so I will join in.

In short my year was this:

• Attended 4 IndyCar Series Races (Indy, Belle Isle, Kentucky, Mid-Ohio)
• Watched all the other IndyCar Series Races on TV.
• Attended one NASCAR and MotoGP Race at IMS.
• Worked with Zend on the Zend Framework Certification
• Attended my first (but not last) ZendCon

That’s right ZF 1.7.0 has been release and it features AMF support, JQuery support, and Twitter support, among numerous other offerings.

Wow it’s been a while since my last post but my life has been busy. I traveled with for work up to the IndyCar Series Race at Belle Isle Raceway in Detroit, Mi. It was a lot of fun as the race was a very good race and I was sitting about 3 feet away from the race track in the Timing and Scoring Booth.

So part of my job at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is writing Admin Tools for our users to administer the sites with. There are a mix of older admin tools which don’t use any JavaScript and newer admin tools where the front end is completely based on JavaScript.

I was recently asked to build an admin tool to allow one of our users to maintain the drop down portions of the site navigation since they can change with each passing event that happens at the track.