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This blog is dedicated to my musings and are strictly my own. I use it to write about all things software, hardware and aviation. The views and opinions on this site strictly reflect that of my own, and not my employer. At any point I can change my mind, and they may not even reflect my opinions from three minutes ago, so please don't take anything I say too seriously. Some of the software topics on this blog will probably include ColdFusion, C#, .NET Core, Node.js, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, C++. As commercial pilot I will be writing about General Aviation, the Airlines, instrument flying, avionics, the Federal Aviation Administration and the TSA.

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....

Idea Integration looking for SQL developers with SSIS experience

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1/17/2011 My current employer, Idea Integration, is looking for candidates with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) ETL and Database Developer experience. Here is a description below; \\Job Descrip...

IE 10 years old and Open Standards

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1/17/2011 I have been writting HTML before Netscape released their first browser. I was very exited when the first Netscape browsers came out because the used the table tag. This marks the tenth aniversary of t...