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March 24, 2004

Another Great Spring

I attended Spring in Athens, OH, today, driving down from Detroit the night before and back up again right after I wad done (about 300 miles each way). I attended last year's event and was impressed by the quality and professionalism, and this year was just as good (perhaps better, thanks to an...

March 22, 2004

The Ever Present Need for ColdFusion

I spent the day on the show floor at FOSE, the Federal Government tradeshow in D.C. Lots of ColdFusion interest (as well as interest in Contribute, Flash, Breeze, Flex, and more). For me, the most important part of all the ColdFusion discussions and interaction was the reminder that ColdFusion must...

March 21, 2004

Oh, What a Geek I Am

After posting my last message I realized something. I am sitting in a restaurant, typing online via a wireless connection, and talking via a Bluetooth headset in my ear ... I feel like I am wearing a big badge with the word GEEK inscribed on it, a badge of honor indeed.

March 21, 2004

Online Via EDGE

I am in Washington, D.C., in a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue, and am posting this message via EDGE (AT&T's GPRS data service, see http://www.attwireless.com/speed/). I have a PC Card in my notebook, a little antenna pointing upwards, and am online. I am not getting the expected 100K+...

March 19, 2004

Sue Google Over Links You Don't Like?

Mark Maughan is a certified public accountant with the Brown & Maughan firm in Palos Verdes, California. As per a local NBC story (reported at http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2937016/detail.html), Mr. Maughan did a Google search on his own name and found results that he did not like. "Specifically, the...

March 18, 2004

Two New Builder.com ColdFusion Articles

"Application Design: Dynamically change state and city drop-down boxes with DHTML" by Thomas Ortega explains ColdFusion / JavaScript integration at http://builder.com.com/5100-6371_14-5168421.html. "Making ColdFusion thread-safe with cflock" by Andrew Grant provides a good introduction to locking...

March 17, 2004

Google Local, and Googlism

Google Local, in beta at http://local.google.com/, allows for Google searching relevant to addresses (only US for now). Googlism at http://www.googlism.com/index.htm is a strange, but fun, Google search tool. Type in your name, a product name, and more, to obtain a quick list of extraced quotes.

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