I use Comcast for high-speed cable internet access at home, and have for quite a while. The connection has generally been good, and for the most part I've been pleased with the service (despite the fact that the monthly fee keeps creeping upwards). Until this week, that is. On Saturday the...
Like most of you, I have a home network comprised of multiple servers, and even more clients. Data is backed up nightly to tape, or has been for a long time. But, primarily due to the proliferation of digital media, tapes are not cutting it anymore (plus, tapes just make me more than a little...
I have just been informed that the Detroit ColdFusion User Group meeting tonight has been cancelled as the building has been closed due to a gas leak . I've been given the dates of the next meetings, and as soon as I know which one I can attend I'll post details.
I know I am asking for trouble with this one, but ... I run both Firefox 1.02 and IE 6.0.28 (the former far more than the latter). Firefox crashes on me at least once every few days, and when it does it leaves parts of itself running and I have to manually kill those processes. IE, on the other...
Macromedia is the Platinum Sponsor of CFUNITED-05, and lots of members of the ColdFusion team will be present too (including Tim Buntel, Damon Cooper, Dean Harmon, Tom Jordahl, Mike Nimer, and myself) along with other Macromedians (including Christian Cantrell and Sean Corfield). (I mention this...
Apache iBATIS is a framework that can be used to abstract database interaction. Or, in the words of the about page: iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. So why do I mention this? Look at this code snippet extracted from a SQL map XML file: SELECT...
Detroit played host to Powered by Detroit this weekend, its first ColdFusion/Flash conference, with about 150 attendees from all over. I attended day two (today, Sunday) and presented a general session on CFMX7, and then took part in a panel along with Mike Dinowitz and Simon Horwith. Thanks to...
John Cleese in a Flash video entitled Institute for Backup Trauma about all that can go wrong with tape backups. This is an ad for a company named LiveVault, but worth watching anyway (all the way until the end, until the third button). ;-)
We all know that patents have been awarded for the most ridiculous of inventions, but just how ridiculous some of them are may surprise you. For example, patent 6,637,447 for "Beerbrella" (yep an umbrella that clips onto your beer bottle), patent 6,206,000 for a "canine scuba diving apparatus",...
Last year I mentioned TSA sloppiness and attitude . Well, here's another example. I flew out of BWI this afternoon. There are 9 security lanes at BWI Concourse D, but only 1 was open. When I arrived there were about 50 people ahead of me, and it took half an hour to get to the security checkpoint....