August 31, 2013
Vincent Hardy On Open Source Involvement
Our own Vincent Hardy has written an article for Website Magazine entitled Why Do Developers Contribute to Open Source Projects? .
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← All posts August 28, 2013
99U's Pop-Up School
Behance is bringing 99U's first-ever Pop-Up School to NYC, offering training, workshops, and skill-building focused on three topics that are essential to making an impact with your ideas: career development, entrepreneurship, and brand & digital strategy. The first 99U Pop-Up School will be...
June 11, 2013
Blast From The Distant Past
Someone just sent me this link they have discovered, the original spec for vCalendar, The Electronic Calendaring and Scheduling Exchange Format Version 1.0 , circa 1996. Contributors include representatives from all sorts of organizations (many long gone) including AT&T, Attachmate, IBM,...
November 22, 2012
Welcome To The New forta.com
With any luck (and with the cooperation of the DNS gods) you should be reading this on my new and improved personal web site. This is the first complete redesign of this site in over a decade, and I'm really pleased with how it has turned out. This site has evolved slowly (OK, it's worse than that,...
August 5, 2012
Yes, It Is A Big Deal
An acquaintance apparently saw my exuberantly gushing Curiosity posts and tweets, and IMd me with "that big a deal, huh?". It took me a few minutes to figure out how to respond, how to capture the pride and emotion and admiration. But, I tried to do just that, and this is what I sent back: At the...
November 13, 2011
Tarmac Delay Rule Shocker - NOT!
Back when the tarmac delay rule went into effect I predicted that this rule would fall victim to the Law of Unintended Consequences and that airlines will do the only thing they can do, they'll cancel flights earlier or more often (that copied and pasted from an April 2010 blog post ). And so I was...
August 3, 2011
When Lightning Strikes The Network
My home network had a bad week last week. One of my 24 port hubs is dead (well, it powers up and passes POST, but not a single data LED lights up). The WAN port on my SonicWALL firewall is fried (fortunately I had an unused port and was able to change the configuration to get back online). My Roku...
July 28, 2011
Vote For Matt Gifford
.net Magazine is running their annual .net Awards, and our own Matt Gifford is the only ColdFusion developer up for a .net Awards 2011 . Feel free to help him out, go vote (category 16, at the bottom).
June 10, 2011
BrowserLab Updated
The BrowserLab team has announced that version 1.6.1 is now live, and includes support for newer versions of Chrome (although not the newest yet).
May 29, 2011
Expanding A Virtual PC Hard Drive
I use Virtual PC extensively, and have lots of virtual machines that I fire up as needed to run specific software. ( Charlie Arehart gets the credit for getting me hooked on virtual computers many years ago). Virtual computers use virtual hard drives, essentially a complete hard drive in a single...
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