The Coolest Airline Pilot on the Planet
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1/17/2011I have to give thanks to getting home to Jacksonville from CFUNITED to an airline pilot named "Rusty". As my airline experiences have been lately, my flight out of Dulles was delayed. When I finally d...
The JaxFusion meeting for tomorrow has been canceled
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1/17/2011The JaxFusion meeting for tomorrow has been canceled. We are going to try to do a make meeting in April....
The rumors of JRun's death have been greatly exaggerated
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1/17/2011Damon Cooper posted a note on my Blog that JRun is not dead and will be around for awhile. Thanks for the update Damon....
The trainwreck is over, Blu-ray and HDDVD together
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1/17/2011\This article\ says that Toshiba and Sony are playing nice and will come out with dual format players. If it is true, it would be great news....
The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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1/17/2011I try not to talk about my job on this blog, but I heard a rumor that I was no longer working at the job I actually work at, if that makes any since. I am currently employed at a company called Recrui...
Tim Buntel is back at Adobe
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1/17/2011At the end of the keynote, Tim Buntel was brought onto the stage in a very dramatic fashion, as if he was being kidnapped. Tim annonuced that he was back at Adobe as the Sr. Marketing Manager for Cold...
Tim Buntel leaving Adobe
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1/17/2011I read on Ben Forta's blog that Tim Buntel is leaving Adobe. Ben says he is going to follow his true passion as an educator. I used to run a user group in Tampa, and Tim came out to give a presentatio...
Top 10 Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2005
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1/17/2011Buck Woody at Microsoft pointed me to this \article\ at MSDN. There are actually some handy tips in there relating to scaling and security. Thanks for the cool tip Buck....
TRUNCATE_ONLY option is being deprecated in SQL Server 2007
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1/17/2011If you use the following statement to empty our your transaction log, beware. BACKUP LOG dbname WITH TRUNCATE\_ONLY When I am doing bulk loads for data conversions, it is not uncommon for me to fill...
T-SQL is case insensitive, XQuery is Case Sensitive
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1/17/2011One of the nice new features in SQL Server 2005 is the inclusion of an XML data type. Microsoft added the ability to use XQuery searches to pull values from this type. \\\sql DECLARE @filterData xml; ...
Twitter from the command line in Mac OS X 10.5
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1/17/2011I am a big fan of public APIs that are provided by web sites such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook. I think one of the reasons that twitter has been successful is that their service can be accessed t...
Two Cool New Web Service Tools
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1/17/2011Two of my co-workers, Henry Adam and Sai Kolla, turned me on to some new tools for testing Web Services. The first tools is called \soapUI\. It is an opensource project for testing SOAP calls and gene...
Two New Powerpoint Presentations Added to my Main Site
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1/17/2011I just added two new powerpoint presentations to my main site. I try to make it a habit of posting the powerpoint presentations I use at the JaxFusion User Group right after the meetings, but I have b...
Two Senior ColdFusion Developers Available at the End of the Month
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1/17/2011If you are looking to hire experienced ColdFusion developers, I know two ColdFusion developers who have been working at NASA. Their contracts are up at the end of this month. They are currently based ...
Undeliverable/Returned Mail Spam
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1/17/2011I try to avoid getting political on this blog, but I started noticing something alarming a couple of weeks ago with my inbox. I am receiving a couple of extra hundred emails a day that are undeliverab...
User Group TV
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1/17/2011I have been watching some of the presentations at Charlie Arehart's \UGTV\ web site. Charlie has added this site were people can place the links to their breeze presentations. There are some excellent...
Using Microsoft Sharepoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) with Web Services
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1/17/2011Microsoft dropped the Office Sharepoint Server 1.2 SDK last month which included a tool for generating Application LobSystem files for creating Business Data Catalog (BDC) applications. The BDC can co...
Using .NET CLR code on SQL Server 2005
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1/17/2011I went to a presentation last night at the Jacksonville SQL Server user group on using .NET CLR code in SQL Server 2005\\. One of the neat features in SQL Server 2005 is the ability to write user defi...
Using SOAP Request Headers in CFMX 6.1
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1/17/2011One of the developers I work with recently had a problem trying to make Web Service calls to a SOAP based Web method that requires Request Headers. I ran into the same problem about a year ago using C...
Vince Bonfanti of New Atlanta coming to present at JaxFusion
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1/17/2011I am pleased to annouce that Vince Bonfanti is coming to present the next version of BlueDragon at the March meeting for the JaxFusion user group. Vince Bonfanti is president and co-founder of New Atl...