One of my favorite authors, Michael Crichton, is Dead at 66
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1/17/2011 Just found this out that Michael Crichton has \passed away\ unexpectedly. Crichton was one of my favorite fiction authors, and he was also dabbled as film director as well....
Oracle 10g error: OCIEnvCreate failed with return code -1
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1/17/2011 I have run into this error recently "OCIEnvCreate failed with return code -1 " trying to make a database connection to Oracle from a .NET 2.0 application. It took me a couple of days to resolve the er...
Oracle has released a free version of their database server
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1/17/2011 Oracle has released a free version of their database server software. It is called \Oracle Express\. It looks like a competitor to the SQL Server express and MySQL products. It will work with Redhat a...
Oracle less secure than MS SQL Server
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1/17/2011 I saw this \story\ over on DIGG today. There was a study done that shows that Oracle's database has more security flaws then SQL Server. I will point out that I am biased. I have used both SQL Server ...
Orchard 0.8 Released
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1/17/2011 The \Orchard CMS\ version 0.8 has been released. This release has a new theme engine written using the new Razor rendering views. Orchard is based on ASP.NET MVC. Here is the write up from announcemen...
Orchard CMS Presentation in November at JAXDUG
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1/17/2011 I will be giving a presentation in November at the Jacksonville Developers User Group on the Orchard CMS. I am going to use part of this presentation to demonstrate \Microsoft WebMatrix\. WebMatrix is...
Orchard CMS Presentation tomorrow at JAXDUG
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1/17/2011 I will be giving a presentation at the Jacksonville Developers User Group on the Orchard CMS tomorrow at 6:00 PM. I am going to use part of this presentation to demonstrate \Microsoft WebMatrix\. WebM...
My Oscar picks for this weekend
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1/17/2011 The Oscars are this weekend, and I thought I would make my Oscar picks for this year and give my explanation as to why the academy will pick a nominee. Best Motion Picture of the Year: Brokeback Mount...
The rest of my Oscar picks
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1/17/2011 Here are the rest of my Oscar picks. Best Achievement in Art Direction: Grant Major, Dan Hennah, and Simon Bright will win for King Kong. Anyone who can turn New Zealand into New York city deserves an...
Oscars: You were right, I was wrong
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1/17/2011 The results from my Flash poll showed that Crash would win the Oscar for Best Picture. I picked Brokeback Mountain. You were right, I was wrong. There I said it. I am just glad that the 36 Mafia won a...
Personal update
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1/17/2011 I have not been blogging much over the last month. I have had a few funerals and weddings that I have been attending. I have recently switched jobs. I was working for Idea Integration as a Microsoft C...
Photoshop is too expensive!!!
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1/17/2011 I had a conversation with someone today about the cost of Photoshop CS2\\. The current price listed on the website is $649.00\\. This is the full version. Photoshop elements 5.0, the lost cost alterna...
Pictures of New York City five years after September 11
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1/17/2011 I just got back from a trip to New Jersey to participate in the FISA World Rowing championships. While I was there I had a chance to go into New York City for the day on Friday the 8th. Here is a \lin...
Plugged on the ColdFusion Podcast
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1/17/2011 Bryan Kaiser and Michael Haynie plugged my website again on the last episode of the \Coldfusionpodcast\. This last episode covered the Fusion debug tool for eclipse. If have thought about using a more...
Podcast pod changed on my Blog
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1/17/2011 I updated the Podcast pod on my blog today. I removed the ColdFusion podcast from that pod, and added one for the Flex show. I am sorry to hear that the ColdFusion podcast is going on hiatus. Those gu...
Point and Pay hiring two ColdFusion programmers.
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1/17/2011 Point and Pay has an immediate need for one or two Coldfusion programmers to work onsite in sunny Winter Haven Florida. Please submit your resume to \jobs@pointandpay.com\....
Presenting on jQuery at Jaxdug Meeting Today
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1/17/2011 I will be presenting on \jQuery\ at the \Jaxdug\ tonight at 6:00 PM. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that helps add interactivity to web pages and manipulated the DOM more easily....
Really Free Cool XML Editor
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1/17/2011 A co-worker of mine, \John Lyons\, showed me a really cool tool for editing and auto-formatting XML. The tool is called \Butterfly XML\. It is built in Java and uses the tiny XML api to load your XML ...
RTFM and Why I Should not be Allowed Inside a Computer Anymore
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1/17/2011 I recently purchased Adobe Creative Suite 3 for my Mac G5 tower. When I bought the suite I did not realize that it required a minimum of 1 Gigabyte of RAM to install. I only had 512 MB that came with ...
Running SVN 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.5 with Apache 2.2
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1/17/2011 I use subversion at work, but I have been wanting to run a subversion server at home. On Windows I use Visual SVN server, but at home I am running Mac OS X on all of my home computers. I use one of my...