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June 21, 2004

iPod Your BMW ... Wired?

BMW and Apple have partnered so that you may "iPod Your BMW" (see http://www.ipodyourbmw.com/). Full pages ads in USA Today and elsewhere are heralding this marriage as "total driving control meets total tune control", and lots of folks are mega-excited over it. I may be missing something here, but...

June 20, 2004

Portland Opens Week 4

I presented Blackstone to the user group in Portland, OR, this evening. It's been quite a while since I was last in Portland, I don't remember it being so hot here! I had to make lots of last minute demo changes because I installed a new product build and stuff changed (I like living dangerously)....

June 19, 2004

Well Trained Kids

No tie for me. And no socks. And no tools, either. My kids have been well trained, they gave me Lego (3 planes, the Sopwith Camel, the Red Baron, and the Wright Flyer). Sweet! :-)

June 19, 2004

RTF Redux

Last week I asked for feedback on the necessity for Blackstone reporting to support RTF (a file format primarily used with Microsoft Word). There were over 40 responses to that entry (and some even agreed with each other). To summarize the responses ... Those that want RTF support do so primarily...

June 19, 2004

Pondering Output to Excel

Lots of you have been asking for a print output to Excel (this has come up in discussions at user groups, in e-mail threads, and in the comments to my blog entry regarding RTF files). I've been giving this one some thought, and honestly, I don't believe that Excel makes sense as a "print" format. I...

June 18, 2004

Week 3 Wraps

I am home, recuperating from week 3 of my Summer 2004 User Group Tour. My last stop this week was Denver, which has always boasted a strong and enthusiastic membership, and this event reflected that. Unfortunately, I once again forgot to take pictures, so if you have any to share please send them...

June 16, 2004

Bye Bye Phoenix, Hello Denver

I just arrived in Denver, a pleasant 55 degrees, far more agreeable than 101 degrees in Phoenix! Last night's session (in Phoenix) was intense. About 50 attendees in a very nice room in a community college library. We got into a long discussion about RTF and XLS files, the formalization of...

June 15, 2004

How Important is RTF?

I have now demonstrated Blackstone's ability to generate printable pages to 12 user groups, lots of corporate customers, and many hundreds of users. While we have publicly committed to Blackstone supporting the creation of printable documents, we have not publicly committed to any specific output...

June 14, 2004

Three in Texas Kicks off Week 3

I am in Houston, Texas, and just finished the third of three presentations here. Monday midday was a lunchtime presentation in Austin, at the Alamo Drafthouse (a rather eccentric feeling cinema / bar). This was my first trip to Austin in almost 5 years, long overdue. And attendance was great,...

June 10, 2004

ColdFusion Helping With Accessibility

Section 508 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted (as an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act) to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with...

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