Microsoft recently acquired a small anti-spyware vendor, and has released their product in beta form as Microsoft AntiSpyware . The timing of this one seems really bad, if the tool is any good then it should have been included in XP SP2, but better late than never. At first glance it looks pretty...
While in D.C. next week I'll get the chance to speak to the WAMMO user group , and will be talking about event gateways and SMS integration in Blackstone. This group is always well attended and highly interactive, the event should be fun. If you are in the area, please drop by! Details on the WAMMO...
I'll be in D.C. next week, and was just checking metro routes on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) site. (I couldn't remember if the blue line or orange line ran to Foggy Bottom, turns out it's both). The site is well designed, easy-to-use, and fast too. I particularly like...
The Smithsonian Institution Press' Legacies site supports a new book on over 250 objects from the National Museum of American History's collections, revealing the stories of how and why they were collected. And the site is powered by ColdFusion. Thanks to Shawn Fairweather for sharing this one.
Matt Woodward has posted a great introduction to object-oriented programming for ColdFusion programmers entitled What's an Object? .
It's been a long time since I used WiGLE , but Steve Gustafson mentioned it in an e-mail and so I took a look at it again. WiGLE is a submission-based catalog of wireless networks, and it now has over 2,000,000 wireless networks listed, and as per the stats page 53% are without WEP. For more info,...
I don't know when this one was introduced, it seemed to slip in under the radar, but Yahoo! has added traffic condition and incident reports to Yahoo! Maps. Maps now display little colored icons indicating reported traffic speed and incident severity, mouse-over the icon for a popup containing...
I've mentioned input masking before, and Tim Buntel demoed the use of masking in his Flash based election form at MAX. But we haven't spent a lot of time talking about the specifics of this feature, and having used it extensively the past few days I just have to spill the beans. Here's the big...
Vegemite. Australia's answer to Marmite (the stuff Brits spread on toast while Americans take a sniff and stare in utter disbelief). The spread mentioned in Men At Work's "Down Under" (as in "I said, Do you speak-a my language? He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich"). Yep, that Vegemite....
My new blog poll has been up for just a few days, but the initial results are impressive. 94% of respondents plan on upgrading to Blackstone, and 51% plan to upgrade as soon as it ships!