How Apollo/Flex/Flash will help Java and ASPs
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1/17/2011Adobe 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011Last 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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1/17/2011Charlie 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011Leif 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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1/17/2011Thanks 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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1/17/2011Calvin 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011I 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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1/17/2011If 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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1/17/2011My 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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1/17/2011I 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...
IE7 observation: Day 2
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1/17/2011I think the Anti-phishing support that has been added to IE is a good thing. There is a noticeable lag in pages loading over slower connections. This is a feature I will turn on my Mom's computer. I d...
IE7 observation: Hold off!
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1/17/2011I upgraded my PC to IE7 today. One of the sites I like going to is \Digg.com\. It seems to take a really long time to display this site, and sometimes it fails to display the site with the CSS. I gues...
Immediate need for two ColdFusion developers
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1/17/2011Greg at point and pay is in need of two ColdFusion developers ASAP. Here is his messsage to the Tampa CF Jobs list. "We are in dire need of at least some temporary help for the next few weeks. Anyone ...