Happy New Year
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1/17/2011 2007 has been an exiting year for me because of many changes in my life. The ColdFusion 8 launch was very exiting and has been successful for Adobe. I wish I had more time to devote to the JaxFusion u...
HD-DVD is Dead to Me
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1/17/2011 I am a big fan of open standards. One of the things that has prevented me from upgrading to a HDTV and a new high def player is that lack of a high def format standard. There have been two camps for t...
Heat Maps in SQL Reporting Services 2005
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1/17/2011 Andrew Fryer uses a neat technique to create a Heat Map in SSRS 2005\\. Read more about it at his \blog\. Thanks to Buck Woody for passing this along....
Hal Helms Jeff Peter's podcast
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1/17/2011 A while back I asked if there was anybody doing a ColdFusion podcast. Hal Helms and Jeff Peters have a \podcast\ covering FLiP, the Fusebox Lifecycle Process. I have seen Hal and Jeff speak at several...
Host header files and other Dev annoyances
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1/17/2011 I recently came across the following error testing a web service call using ColdFusion MX. \Error Could not generate stub objects for web service invocation.\ It was followed by a name and the followi...
How Apollo/Flex/Flash will help Java and ASPs
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1/17/2011 Adobe is starting their marketing push for Apollo. From what I have read, Apollo is a combination of different technologies, including the new Flash player 9, PDF, Flex, HTML and disconnected as well ...
How did I decide on the Orchard CMS
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1/17/2011 I moved my site to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 last year. I was disappointed that there was not a blogging software that was not written for the MVC framework. When I started doing research on MVC based blogging ...
How not to Protest 101
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1/17/2011 Last week in Califiornia, and in other parts of the country students protested tuition hikes and budget cuts in their colleges and universities. In California where the state has a $20 billion budget ...
How to pronounce Fekke?
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1/17/2011 Charlie Arehart suggested to me over a year ago that I put a sound up on my web site so people can hear how my last name "Fekke" is pronounced. I decided to create a small Flex application to play bac...
How to set up Sharepoint My Site sites
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1/17/2011 I found a really good \post\ on how to set up Sharepoint Server to host the 'My Site' function on CHris Johnson's blog....
How to upload legacy DTS Packages into a SQL Server 2005 server
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1/17/2011 I am working on project to migrate some existing DTS Packages that were created in SQL Server 2000 over to SQL Server 2005\\. I have been trying to use SQL SMO, which is the prefered Microsoft way to ...
How to invoke the ImageWatcher CFC
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1/17/2011 Leif Wells asked if I would edit my previous \blog post\ on how to invoke the ImageWatcher CFC. The CFC is actually invoked by the Event Gateway. A new Gateway instance needs to be created in the Cold...
HowYou might be a Red Neck Pilot if
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1/17/2011 Thanks to James Ahrens for sending this to me; You Might Be a Redneck Pilot If: 1\\. Your stall warning plays DIXIE. 2\\. Your cross-country flight plan uses flea markets as checkpoints. 3\\. You thin...
Hurricane Relief
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1/17/2011 Calvin Ward, the manager of my local ColdFusion User Group, put a very elegant \page\ onto our User Group website about the disaster in the Gulf States with Hurricane Katrinna. He has links on that pa...
I am going to the Darkside . . .
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1/17/2011 I am going to the Darkside, well sort of. Today is my last day at \Vurv Technology\, the company I have worked at for the last two and half years. It was extremely tough to make the decision to leave,...
I am on the Local News, and it was not Perp Walk
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1/17/2011 I was walking through San Marco towards 1st Place Sports Friday afternoon, and I got stopped by a reporter. He asked me what I thought about a state proposal to add advertising to license plates to lo...
I got my Apollo pocket guide yesterday
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1/17/2011 I ordered the Apollo Flex Developers pocket guide from O'Reilly books when I read about it on Mike Chambers' blog. It finally arrived yesterday in my Mailbox. I have not had a chance to read the whole...
I just got my MacBook Pro
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1/17/2011 I just picked up my new MacBook Pro this morning. This is my first Mac based laptop, even though I have owned and worked with Macs since the 1980's. This is also my first Intel based Mac, so I look fo...
I would like a Pownce invite
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1/17/2011 I guess I am not cool enough for a Pownce invite. If anyone has an extra Pownce invite, I would like one....
Ian Smith blogs about Ben Forta's presentation in Seattle
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1/17/2011 If you are curious about some of the new features in CFMX8, Ian Smith \posted\ some of the new features that Ben Forta presented on last night in Seattle....