Small project updates

First off, sorry for the short amount of blogging this week. I've got some personal matters tomorrow so I've been working hard all week to take most of tomorrow off, and I've got jury duty coming up on Monday which is putting me in a slight panic mode as well. As an independent contractor, jury duty is going to be pretty tough if I can't get out of it. I did do a few small updates this week to my open source projects. (And by "I" I mean reviewed and uploaded, which is the way good projects should work, right? :)

BlogCFC and Canvas both had minor updates specifically to help with Oracle issues. Thanks go to Nick Hill since I'd rather shove nails through my eyes than test on Oracle.

pdfUtils had a few updates related to getExtraInfo function. One update included supported for showing page orientation. Sexy stuff, eh? Thanks go to Reto Aeberli for submitting multiple fixes/updates in this area.

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Nolan Erck said on 05-15-2009 at 10:09 AM #

I'm an independent contractor too. When they ask you for the "reasons you need to be excused", just word it in a guilt-filed fashion..."owner of my own, small business...if i'm not working today, the projects will be in jeopardy, and we run a great financial risk" or something to that effect has always worked with me.

Granted, it may be an hour or 2 before you GET to that point. So bring a laptop, or a book. :)

Good luck.

Raymond Camden said on 05-15-2009 at 10:12 AM #
	Not bringing a laptop as they made it clear I couldn't bring anything with a circuit. ;)

bagar said on 05-15-2009 at 11:28 AM #

I'm in the same 'independent contractor' boat as you (an unknown length of absence is scary), I have gotten out of jury duty twice because of it (in CA). The excuse they accept is "Self employed; Extreme financial hardship; Missed work is not reimbursed." or something that effect.

The first time I showed up in person and got excused within an hour, the second time I mailed in my excuse early and I never heard back (no news is good news).

Best of luck! Hang in there.

Raymond Camden said on 05-15-2009 at 11:31 AM #
	Yeah, I did the written excuse. They said they would mail me back if I was excused, but they have not done so yet.