Archive for January, 2008
Using Google as Your Jabber Server
Although my experience with Google Apps didn’t start off all that spectacular, I’m still using it after two months. As an independent product in the Google line I’d say it would be a great product, but it’s synergy with the rest of the Google domain is still sorely lacking at this time. Google Apps still [...]
Reactor Presentation Next Tuesday
If you’re in the Orlando next tuesday, Feburary 5th, and want to listen to a talk about Reactor, check out Adogo’s February meeting. Joe Zack and I will both be giving a presentation on a ColdFusion ORM, with him doing the also-popular Transfer. I’ll be interested in seeing how the two compare and the discussion [...]
Tools Make the Difference
How much difference do the tools you use affect your productivity? That’s nearly an impossible question to answer. Books like Joel on Software or his bible Peopleware are more about how to be productive than how to write good code (for that try Code Complete). Although some of these tips can’t translate to a [...]
A Question for Apple Users
A talk with a co-worker of mine left me wondering just what it is about Apple Computers that drives people to love them so much. I’ve always wondered this actually, and since the usual response isn’t too helpful for someone as clueless with macs as me, I’m wondering if anyone can help me figure this [...]
Pownce and Adobe Air?
Pownce made it’s public debut tonight after quite a few months in beta and heavy speculation. Despite all the talk those of us without beta invites (or the immediate need to get one) were left wondering exactly what the deal was. Pownce is a way to keep in touch with people and share stuff with [...]
Rails Plugins Recommendations
One of the niceties about working with Rails is how most plugins just work. Since plugins are tied to the framework, and just about everyone that works for web development uses Ruby, it gives a huge base of helpers and code to get you started unlike anything I’ve seen — outside of Java. ColdFusion has [...]
New Year and a New Look
I’ve been neglecting this blog for quite a while. The main reason was that I wasn’t satisfied with how it looked, which was more of a deterrent than I would’ve guessed towards posting. Whenever I started writing something up I ended up tweaking the design instead. Instead of trying to fix a broken layout, I [...]
Old PC Cleanup
I admit it, I’m a packrat. Part of that is due to circumstance, but the majority is that I always tend to think “maybe I’ll need that!”. In nothing is this more obvious than my slew of old PC parts, cables, power adapters and whatever else. I’m in the process of building a new office [...]
