I just got home, a weekend to recuperate before starting week 2 of the tour. The Jacksonville CFUG presentation went really well. This is a brand new group, they have only met 3 or 4 times, and we had 55 attendees. This was also an incredibly interactive group, 90 minutes into the presentation I...
I was just asked, again, if I had lost lots of weight recently. I was also asked the same question yesterday. In fact, I get asked this quite often, always by people who have never met me before but whom have seen my mug shots on my site. And no, I've been the same weight (more or less) for a dozen...
Last night's presentation to the Atlanta CFUG went very well. Attendance was less than expected, but the room was full, the crowd interactive, the questions and suggestions right on target, and I have only a mild hangover. In addition to locals (folks from all over Georgia), attendees made the trek...
The J.K. Rowling official site in online at http://www.jkrowling.com/. (For you muggles, J.K. is Harry Potter's mom, kind of). This site is chock full of secrets, and lots of folks are visiting it trying to find the portkeys to the hidden goodies. And when I say lots of folks I mean tens of...
I presented Blackstone and The Future of ColdFusion to the Louisville, KY, CFUG last night. The event was sponsored by CFXHosting, and graciously hosted by UPS. The presentation went well, all the demos worked, and the group was genuinely excited by what they saw. One non-CF user in the group said...
I am on the way from Toronto to Louisville. Last night was the 1st stop on my Summer 2004 User Group Tour. About 80 attendees upstairs of a bar named Rhino, looking at a presentation projected onto a textured reddish brown wall (it actually worked better than I expected). Turnout was a bit lower...
Software is a living evolving entity, and this is especially true of software that is mid-development. I'll be presenting Blackstone to the Toronto CFUG in under 2 hours, and I am holed up in my hotel room frantically tweaking demos (or rather, making demos that worked with prior Blackstone builds...
I'm shutting down for the night. I have an early flight to Toronto tomorrow, and then tomorrow evening we kick off the Summer 2004 User Group with a presentation to the Toronto CFUG. Over the next five weeks I'll be checking in from locations all over North America, and will try to post notes,...
Ingres has a long and significant history in the DBMS world. It was developed at UC Berkeley between 1977 and 1985 (and is an ancestor of PosgreSQL which also originated at UC Berkeley). It became a somewhat successful commercial product, and was then acquired in 1990 for $110 million by Sandra...
The first virus for 64-Bit Windows has been identified (story at http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21400348). It used to be that the porn industry pushed next generation technologies, it looks like virus writers may be beating them to it. Wonderful, it just warms the...