Fekke.com is now hosted on Orchard 1.0
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1/19/2011I moved my site over to \Orchard\ 1.0 today. If you are not familiar with Orchard, it is a new open source content management system based on ASP.NET MVC 3.0. I used Nick Mayne's BlogML importer to br...
Privacy Policy added to Fekke.com
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1/19/2011I have not had a Privacy Policy on my web site until today. I recently decided to turn on web logging for my web site, and decided to add a privacy policy. My privacy policy can be read at the \this u...
Scott Guthrie on MVC 2 Model Validation
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1/19/2011\Scott Guthrie\ in his latest blog post explains one of the cool new features in ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation. MVC already had a way of validating that worked pretty well, but with MVC 2 has improv...
A lot of content available for XML presentation
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1/17/2011I finished creating my presentation on XML yesterday. One of the things that became obvious was that there is a lot more than an hours worth of content on XML. Even with all of the XML features in Col...
Adobe Advertises Apollo on Diggnation
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1/17/2011Yes, I listen to podcasts. I was listening to \Diggnation\ this weekend, the companion podcast for the \Digg.com\ web site. For those not familiar with this site, it was started by Kevin Rose of Tech ...
Adobe Air goes 1.0 today
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1/17/2011Adobe released \Air\ today, the Rich Internet Application runtime that lets run web application technology on the desktop. I have written some flex apps that I am planning to release as Air apps. Adob...
Adobe ColdFusion tomorrow
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1/17/2011Tomorrow marks the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. Adobe and Macromedia officially merge tomorrow. As a ColdFusion developer, this will be my second one. I remember different developers...
Adobe has released ColdFusion 8
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1/17/2011It is official. Adobe has shipped \ColdFusion 8\. I am really exciting about this release. The next JaxFusion meeting will be going over some of the new features in ColdFusion 8. I am still trying to ...
Adobe New Developer Site, AIR beta 2, Flex Beta 2
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1/17/2011Adobe has been up to trouble for the last three days. They have launched a new \developer site\, new updates to the \AIR\ and \Flex 3\ betas. I hope to have several presentations coming out based on t...
Adobe open sources Flash avm2 to Mozilla organization
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1/17/2011\Adobe announced\ that they are going to be open sourcing the code for the Flash avm2 to the Mozilla. Avm2 is the compiler used in Flash 9 for running ActionScript 3\\. AS3 is based on the ECMAScript ...
Adobe pulls out all the stops
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1/17/2011I have been at the managers conference in San Jose this week that Adobe holds for user group managers. This is the first managers conference I have been to in about four years. If you have ever though...
Adobe.com outages
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1/17/2011Adobe and Macromedia websites have had some outages recently. I have been trying to get to MXNA all morning, and I have been presented with a ColdFusion error. From what I hear, they will have their w...
Airline Hell
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1/17/2011The aerospace system in this county is not getting any better, it is getting worse. I am currently waiting on standby for another flight, because the connection was too late to the airport. And it doe...
AJAX and security
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1/17/2011This \article\ has already been posted on DIGG, but I thought I would blog about this since we just discussed this at the JaxFusion user group meeting last night. Ajax can solve and add security probl...
All I want is a MacBookPro
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1/17/2011Apple showed off a new laptop today called the \MacBook Pro\. All I can say is I want one. It is four times faster than the current PowerBook, and features a dual core intel processor. It will not shi...
Amazon Web Services funkiness with BlueDragon.NET
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1/17/2011I have been playing around with BlueDragon.NET with one of the older applications I have that uses Web Services. If you have not looked at the Amazon Web Service, you really should because it is a goo...
Animation and User Interfaces
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1/17/2011Saw this \article\ on Digg today. This Wired article talks about how Apple is adding a new Animation API to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). The important part of this article is that animation is starting to...
Announcing iDogYears 1.0.1
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1/17/2011We are happy to announce the newest version of iDogYears. This is a simple program that converts dog years into human years. It uses the canines actual weight plus the actual age to determine the age....
Announcing iLottoNumber version 1.0.1
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1/17/2011We are pleased to announce version 1.0.1 of iLottoNumber. This program randomly picks a number from the starting value to the end value. It is written as way for groups to quickly pick a number for gi...
AOL Call Center Shutdowns in my neighborhood
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1/17/2011I live in Jacksonville, and AOL has a large Call Center down the street from my home. Well AOL lost 875,000 subscribers last quarter, so they are closing that call center. I was once an AOL user back ...