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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.

Why I will probably not be buying an iPhone

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1/17/2011 The biggest reason I will not be buying an Apple iPhone is they are not on sell yet, but that is not the only reason. Now that I have left the Steve Jobs \reality distortion field\, there are a lot of...

Why Internet Explorer 6 will not Die

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1/17/2011 There have been a lot of posts on the interwebs this Summer on supporting Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Recently on the Digg blog there was a \post\ from one of the engineers that they have very low usag...

WiFi great at MAX

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1/17/2011 I am starting my last day at MAX. I have to say the WiFI access at the conference is really good. I have had better access to the internet here than I do on my home WiFi network. All in all, this is o...

Wikipedia moving from the Bay area to the other Bay Area

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1/17/2011 Having been a resident of the Tampa Bay area for a long time, 22 years, one of the things I was proud of was that Wikipedia was based out of St. Petersburg, FL. I \read\ recently that the foundation i...

WMF Windows fix

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1/17/2011 Many of you have probably heard about the WMF exploit that Microsoft still does not have a fix for yet. Steve Gibson over at GRC is hosting a fix and a vulnerablity checker on his \web site\. The \fix...

World Cup Observations

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1/17/2011 I am a huge sports fan. I wanted to say that before anyone got the wrong idea. I used to play Soccer, or Association Football as my brother-in-law likes to call it, when I was kid and later as an adul...

Xcode 4 Preview at Appleinsider.com

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1/17/2011 Apple Insider has a nice \preview\ of the next version of Apple's Xcode IDE. Xcode 4 was previewed at WWDC, Apple's developer conference earlier this month. I have been developing applications in Xcod...

XHTML and CSS validation

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1/17/2011 I just went through the process of making sure my site is XHTML 1.1 and CSS compliant. The W3C.org site has several validators that will inspect your code to make sure it is compliant. They will show ...

XML will be the topic at the next JaxFusion User Group meeting

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1/17/2011 The next Jaxfusion user group meeting will be hosted by me and I will be covering XML features in ColdFusion, and features that have been added since 7\\. This presentation will also cover how to leve...

XMLSearch bug fixed with this UDF

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1/17/2011 I got tired of waiting for Macromedia to fix the bug in XMLSearch, so I wrote this User Defined Function that will bypass the problem with xpath searching when the xmlns attribute is set in the XMLDoc...

XMLSearch() comments added to Livedocs

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1/17/2011 Macromedia has posted mine and Steven Erat's comments onto \livedocs\ for xmlsearch about the NoNameSpace issue....

XMLSearch is not broken

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1/17/2011 I was wrong. XMLSearch is not broken. Steven Erat at Talking Tree made a post about this issue on his \blog\. The issue has to do with setting a namespace without using a prefix qualifier. Here is an ...

XMLSearch() function still broken in ColdFusion 7.0.1

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1/17/2011 I really wish Macromedia and the ColdFusion team would fix their bugs! I was a beta tester for Blackstone, and I hoped that Macromedia would have fixed the XMLSearch() before CFMX 7 was released. I ju...

XSD validation

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1/17/2011 I have been doing a lot of work with XML validation lately. I have the Visual Studio tool that comes with SQL Server 2005, and it actually has very nice tools for creating xml schemas. A lot of applic...

XSD validation in CFMX 6.1

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1/17/2011 CFMX 7 has builtin xsd validation using the xmlParse function. What about CFMX 6.1\\. There is a very neat udf on \cflib.org\ site called \xsdValidate\. Here is an example using this udf in cfmx 6.1\\...

You know you are at CFUNITED when...

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1/17/2011 You know you are at CFUNITED when you walk into the hotel and you see Ben Forta, Sean Corfield, Charlie Arehart and Raymond Camden in the first five minutes of being at the hotel. I wish I could say t...

George Carlin "The Earth wants our Plastic"

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6/22/2008 \## Bye Bye George :-( My favorite three comedians are George Carlin, \Dennis Miller\ and \Stephen Wright\. I was saddened to learn this morning that Comedian George Carlin \passed away\. I saw Carli...

Michael Dell should shut down Dell, and give the money back to the Shareholders

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1/17/2008 It was ten years ago when Michael Dell answered a question about what Apple should do at an expo in Orlando with this comment; "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareho...

Sending Email with Attachments from Sharepoint Custom Workflows

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8/17/2007 I have been developing custom Sharepoint workflows in Visual Studio 2005 over the past year. It can be fustrating developing for Sharepoint 2007 because Microsoft has done a lousy job documenting the ...

ComputerWorld says ColdFusion is dead!

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5/24/2007 This paragraph is taken from a \Computerworld\ article today that I saw on DIGG. > This once-popular Web programming language -- released in the mid-1990s by Allaire Corp. (which was later purchased b...