 Blog Roundup #2 |
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 05-Sep-08 08:30 AM |
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| Round 2 of my blog round up.... I was worried at the beginning of the week that I wouldn't find enough blogs to manage to keep this up for a second week, given that I covered an entire month in my first round up! However, my fears have been unfounded! There's been a plethora of posts to round up!
Ok this is a set of blog posts that were interesting to me for a couple of reasons. Its a neat little javascript calculator and there's some interesting CSS/layout discussions here. It all started f |
| Learning JQuery ? Book Review |
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| 05-Sep-08 04:47 AM |
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Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg
JQuery is one of the coolest JavaScript libraries ever released, and has been growing massively on the Web Development scene since it's release in early 2006. As a big fan of JavaScript libraries, I decided to write this book review.
"Learning jQuery" is a great complement to jQuery's official documentation, having a nice and clean structure all the times within the book
The book is divi |
| Fridays Joke: Polos (Lifesavers to others) |
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| 05-Sep-08 01:48 AM |
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Let me start with, this joke is about Polo's so in an effort to do some trans-atlantic translations I think these are known as Life Saver in the US. Enjoy!
A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first year schoolchildren, using a bowl of fruit Polos.
He gave all the children the same kind of Polo, one at a time, and asked them to identify them by colour and flavour.
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| Announcing Scotch on the Rocks 2009.... |
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| 04-Sep-08 06:46 PM |
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... at A Wee Dram of Scotch.
Yes, those who attend A Wee Dram of Scotch will be the first to find out the venue, dates and pricing for Scotch on the Rocks 2009. Additionally, if you're at A Wee Dram, then you will automatically get 10% off the...
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| Announcing Scotch on the Rocks 2009.... |
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| 04-Sep-08 06:46 PM |
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... at A Wee Dram of Scotch.
Yes, those who attend A Wee Dram of Scotch will be the first to find out the venue, dates and pricing for Scotch on the Rocks 2009. Additionally, if you're at A Wee Dram, then you will automatically get 10% off the...
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| jQuery FAQ Expand/contract |
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| 04-Sep-08 05:57 PM |
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I've seen some code out there for this, but I've not managed to Google anything I like. My version uses HTML's Definition Lists. <DL>, <DT> and <DD>. Click on one of the questions below to see it in action.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("dt").click(function () {
dtId = $(this).attr("class");
if ($("dd").is(":visible ")) $("dd").slideUp("fast");
$("#"+dtId).slideDown("fast");
});
});
dd{display:none;}
Question 1
FAQ Answer 1: Lorem ipsum dolor |
| Get your very own Adobe ColdFusion 8 tag poster |
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| 04-Sep-08 04:00 PM |
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| We are happy to announce that the Adobe ColdFusion 8 tag posters are being shipped out to a CFUG near you. You will want to get your hands on one soon.... as you can see the CF8 tag posters are a great addition to office decor ;) The User Groups have been sent a limited number of tag posters, so we are offering to send you your very own for free! Just fill out the following survey and you get your tag poster in the mail. http://cfunited.com/go/survey/cf8-tag-poster Due to |
| How I treat the links on my blog with JQuery. |
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| 04-Sep-08 06:35 AM |
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This is a very quick and dirty example of how to treat links on your blog / website using JQuery.
I've been using JQuery for a while now to ease my life with some personal applications and at work.
One of the greatest things about JQuery in my opinion is it's great interaction with the DOM, and ability to make global changes with very little effort.
Some time ago I've implemented a simple WYSIWYG editor on my blog to facilitate tasks like text format and link creation. Link creation |
| CF411 Tools and Resources for ColdFusion |
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| 04-Sep-08 02:26 AM |
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Well known in the ColdFusion community, Charlie Arehart has come up with the new CF411 site
It counts with an extraordinary amount of tools and resources related to the CFML Language.
Text extracted from the website:
How often do you see a question asked on a list, "does anyone know where I can find CFML resources about xxx", or "what tools are available to do yyy?". Now you have one place you can point people to answer most such questions.
Well done Charlie!
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| #RANT - Please "Google Guys" think before you release! |
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| 03-Sep-08 01:11 AM |
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This is gonna be pretty much a rant about my terrible experience with the so acclaimed Chrome, released yesterday.
As soon as I heard the "buzz" about the new browser, I was excited to have it installed as soon as possible. Yes, this kind of thing sounds like a great treat for us geeks IT Professionals.
Before I start to name things, it's important to mention that Chrome can just be installed on Windows platform at this very moment. I'd say it's not the most wise decision, but they s |
| Google Chrome launched! |
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| 02-Sep-08 07:01 PM |
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| A while ago I heard Google may be working on a browser, but on arriving in the office this morning I find out that Google Chrome is due to launch today, this moring all I could find was the ‘comic book’ talking Google Chrome up and highlighting the features it will have. Well now [...] |
| Adobe Community Expert |
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| 02-Sep-08 06:07 PM |
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Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Yours truly is now an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion here in the UK.
That's about it really.
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| Adobe Community Expert |
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| 02-Sep-08 06:07 PM |
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Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Yours truly is now an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion here in the UK.
That's about it really.
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| ColdFusion 8 Now FREE for Students and Educators!!! |
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| 02-Sep-08 09:00 AM |
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Direct from Adobe:
"Academic institutions are experiencing increasing demand for students to develop ColdFusion skills earlier in their education to meet the high workforce demand for rich Internet application developers. Launched today to help fill this demand, Adobe makes ColdFusion 8 available for free to students and educators. Faculty can now easily integrate ColdFusion into their curriculum, enabling students to advance their Web application learning more quickly and easily and |
| 20 things you need to know about Google Chrome |
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| 02-Sep-08 06:39 AM |
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Well, for the well informed people, you may already know that Google will launch a new browser today called Chrome.
I was looking for some more information about it, and came across this interesting list, with the 20 things you need to know about Chrome
I'm gonna post the top 10 here, and you can read the others via Techradar
1. Google Chrome is built using WebKit, which also powers Apple's Safari and Google's Android.
2. Google Chrome is beta, and currently only available for Windows. |
| ColdFusion FREE for students and educators |
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| 02-Sep-08 06:08 AM |
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Today, Adobe has finally released the portal for educators and students as previously mentioned at the CFUnited 2008.
It's great news, as Adobe will finally be able to target the Universities and Schools with ColdFusion, and maybe in a near future our kids will be able to learn some ColdFusion in school ;-)
A friend of mine has been working with Universities since the beginning of this year and has recently had some success with over 28 university students learning ColdFusion |
| Who wants A Wee Dram of Scotch? |
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| 02-Sep-08 01:39 AM |
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On the last week, Wee Dram has been announced. It's organized by the same guys doing Scotch On The Rocks, so it's a "must go".
This time it's gonna be in London at the Square Pig, in Holborn, and it's a replacement for the sadly cancelled CFDEVCON.
Some of the CFDevcon's US speakers will be there, as well as all the great European speakers we already know.
I'll post some information here about what will happen there:
Where:
Square Pig
30 - 32 Proctor Street
Holborn
London
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| Not quite ACE |
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| 01-Sep-08 11:10 PM |
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From the title of the posting I’m not quite an ACE, (Adobe Certified Expert) rather I’ve been invited to join the Adobe Community Experts program, along with two others in the UK, who will of course blog in due course. Before I announced this in public I wanted to make sure my name was put up on the site and indeed it his here.
So how did I get this prestige invite well from all the hard work I’ve but into Scotch on the Rocks, UKCFUG and of course other little event |
| A Wee Dram of Scotch - Registration Open |
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| 01-Sep-08 08:17 PM |
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Registration for A Wee Dram of Scotch is now open, and places are limited.
The final speaker lineups consists of Adam Lehman, Claude Englebert, Sean Corfield, Peter Bell, Mark Drew, Gert Franz and Kurt Wiersma.
Head over to the website fo...
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| A Wee Dram of Scotch - Registration Open |
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| 01-Sep-08 08:17 PM |
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Registration for A Wee Dram of Scotch is now open, and places are limited.
The final speaker lineups consists of Adam Lehman, Claude Englebert, Sean Corfield, Peter Bell, Mark Drew, Gert Franz and Kurt Wiersma.
Head over to the website fo...
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| A Wee Dram Session Change :) |
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| 01-Sep-08 08:13 PM |
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For a very rushed set up event, registerations have been going well today and we have sadly had to make a change to the schedule :( We have had to shortern the Breaks and Lunch sessions to fit in an extra Session ;) Gert Franz from Railo was booked for CFDEVCON and so has also offered his services so now for your £10 you get 2 free drinks, 10% off SOTR 09 and 7 Sessions what a steal ;)
Date:
Thursday 25th September 2008
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| A Wee Dram registration and free drinks |
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| 01-Sep-08 12:33 PM |
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After last weeks Wee Dram announcement more information and registration is now available.
Its going to be a London ColdFusion conference in replacement for the sadly Cancelled CFDEVCON. A chance to see some of the best ColdFusion Speakers from the US and of course the UK's own Mark Drew (What ColdFusion Conference would be complete without him)
Where:
Square Pig
30 - 32 Proctor Street
Holborn
London
WC1R 4QG
When:
Thursday 25th September 2008, 10am to 6pm
Who (Schedule):
10:00 - K |
| We have somewhere to have A Wee Dram - A London ColdFusion Conference in September |
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| 31-Aug-08 07:03 PM |
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We are proud to announce the venue, final details and open registration for A Wee Dram, London will be held at The Square Pig Holborn, Close to Holborn Tube and Chancery Lane and multiple Bus Links from London Bridge, Victoria, London Waterloo and a walkabout distance from Kings Cross on a nice day ;)
We have finalised our Schedule and the line up really is something that the Scotch on the Rocks team is proud of with the time scales we have been working to. (Believe it or not we |
| RDP for iPhone/iPod Touch |
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| 30-Aug-08 10:48 AM |
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| At last there’s an RDP client for the iPhone/iPod - it appeared on the app store on 20th August, I’ve been running it for a while now and it’s great. There’s a trial version and a paid for version - free version is limited to 10 saved connections and macros (key press recordings when you [...] |
| Monochrome Top Shelf |
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| 29-Aug-08 08:21 AM |
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| We like to stay current This is just part of our âretroâ collection’!
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| Blog Round up #1 |
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| 29-Aug-08 07:47 AM |
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| So here's my first blog round up.Some of these are probably a bit dated now coming from all the way back at the beginning of August, but hope you find them useful.Matt Woodward - Very Cool Database Migration ToolIn this line of work databases are always involved in some way shape or form and migrating data is always on the agenda and its always a nightmare. I'll definitely be taking a look at this next time I'm moving some data around.John Whish - Learn Flex in a Week.Something I really need to |
| Flex camp London rocked! |
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| 29-Aug-08 05:56 AM |
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| Yesterday around 300 people attended Flex camp London - not bad considering it was arranged in under 3 weeks. Starting at 2pm through till beer and pizza at 8pm various speakers including our own Nikoas and Neil presented on a wide range of topics from flex & cf through to ‘who do you need on [...] |
| Fridays Joke: Age appropiate |
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| 29-Aug-08 02:29 AM |
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Thanks for Scott Stroz for sending in this age related joke as my age turned to the dark side yesterday (30)
A young man goes to a golf club to play a quick round. To his dismay, he is paired with an 85 year old man. The yong man feels that the old man will slow him down, but much to his delight, the old man keeps up. The old man hit the ball straight down the fairway every time. During the round, the old man would offer unsolicited advice to the young man, but the young man never |
| Anyone Up For a Wee Dram in London? |
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| 27-Aug-08 01:41 PM |
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Unfortunately, cfDevcon has been cancelled, but it looks like I'll be presenting at A Wee Dram instead.
Adam Lehman & Claude Englebert, Mark Drew, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Andrew Shorten and myself - all for ten quid :-)
Check it out. It's on Thursday 25th September 2008, somewhere in central London.
Big kudos to the SoTR team for pulling this together in the last couple of days.
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| Objects, Frameworks and Performance |
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| 27-Aug-08 11:34 AM |
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I've seen mention on various mailing lists of framework based OO apps that can take minutes to load the first time. I just want to clarify that depending on how much code you have it doesn't have to be this way . . .
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| Anyone for A Wee Dram of Scotch? |
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| 27-Aug-08 11:02 AM |
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As has already been announced that CFDEVCON has sadly had to cancel due to lack of funding; the Scotch on the Rocks team have come to the rescue to announce A Wee Dram of Scotch.
For those who didn't make it to Scotch on the Rocks 2005/7 or 2008 then this is your chance to see the organised chaos in action :)
We are still in the mists of finding a venue (We have a Final List) but we have a Schdeule ready:
10:00 - Key Note - From Adam Lehman & Claude Englebert
11:00 - Break
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| Who is up for a wee dram on the 25th September? |
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| 27-Aug-08 05:05 AM |
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For those of you who might not know A Wee Dram is a Scotish euphemism for a single shot of malt Scotch
Or in the case of ColdFusion developers its a single one day shot conference being held in the wake of CFDevcon being cancelled on Thursday 25h September.
Check out more at http://aweedram.com
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| Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop VMware image |
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| 26-Aug-08 04:47 PM |
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You always find these things out after the fact, but VMWare do provide an image of Ubuntu 8.04 Jeos with VMware Tools and a OpenSSH Server pre-installed.
Once you go through a simple registration process you are offered a couple of options to download i.e. via Torrent, HTTP
Find out more at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1282
As a side note, Virtual Appliance Marketplace actually offers a range of pre-compiled images for download which is worth looking into if you want t |
| Ubuntu 8.04 Jeos VMware image |
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| 26-Aug-08 04:47 PM |
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You always find these things out after the fact, but VMWare do provide an image of Ubuntu 8.04 Jeos with VMware Tools and a OpenSSH Server pre-installed.
Once you go through a simple registration process you are offered a couple of options to download i.e. via Torrent, HTTP
Find out more at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1363
As a side note, Virtual Appliance Marketplace actually offers a range of pre-compiled images for download which is worth looking into if you want t |
| XML to Javascript Object |
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| 26-Aug-08 01:37 PM |
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| I've been using ColdFusion since umm... 1996?, a long time anyway, so you'd think I'd know everything that there is to know about CF, its tags and functions. ;) I jest, of course. There is always something new to learn that's exactly what I found out the other day.I've just written a simple AJAX widget to go on a client's site to enable them to have a simple question/action work flow on their site. You know, the "Have you done this? Y/N" "If Yes do this, If No ask next question" kind of thin |
| Catch up |
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| 26-Aug-08 11:46 AM |
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| Its been a while since I posted anything to my blog. I've been busy at work with a large site that's now launched, busy at home with the ever growing/changing son and I've not long been back from a 2 week break in Spain.
The site that was launched while I was away on my holiday is a fairly large site for Benfield Motor Group. There's some neat work gone on in the background of the site. as with all these things there's a few tweaks to make, but its been well received by the client and everyon |
| Testimonials: Using LightWire, CFTemplate a version of IBO or any ideas from the blog or my presos? |
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| 26-Aug-08 09:35 AM |
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I'm currently putting a visa application together which will allow me to spend more time in the US and I'd like to thank the people helping me with that - it is very much appreciated.
The objective of this posting is to ask if anyone else has gotten any value from anything I've done in the CF community and might be willing to write a short testimonial?
It could have been a blog posting, a comment on a mailing list, a presentation at a conference, one of my CFDJ or FAQU articles, an o |
| Setting up Apache and Subversion on JeOS (Ubuntu) |
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| 26-Aug-08 01:26 AM |
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I'll be honest, I don't have much linux experience. I've always liked the idea of Linux and a command line driven OS but as soon as I see the GUI I tend point and click, which means I don't learn anything new. Then comes along JeOS (Just enough OS, pronounced as "juice") from Ubuntu which doesn't give you a GUI, it just gives you the bare minimum to run a server. It's designed for VM's and perfect for running a Subversion server on your local machine in the background. The specs are:
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| Two Events To Learn Flex on a Budget in September |
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| 22-Aug-08 04:51 PM |
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There are two upcoming events that are both a great deal for anyone who wants to learn Flex on a budget. The first is bFlex (http://bflex.info/) - a free hands-on training event in Bloomington, Indiana on Sept. 7th (preceded on the 6th by bFusion, a free day of ColdFusion training). The second event is 360 Flex NJ (http://www.njflex.com/) - a 2 day Flex event being held on Sept. 26 and 27 just outside NYC in Montclair, NJ and offered at just $75 a day (day one is a single all-day train |
| Two Events To Learn Flex on a Budget in September |
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| 22-Aug-08 04:51 PM |
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There are two upcoming events that are both a great deal for anyone who wants to learn Flex on a budget. The first is bFlex (http://bflex.info/) - a free hands-on training event in Bloomington, Indiana on Sept. 7th (preceded on the 6th by bFusion, a free day of ColdFusion training). The second event is 360 Flex NJ (http://www.njflex.com/) - a 2 day Flex event being held on Sept. 26 and 27 just outside NYC in Montclair, NJ and offered at just $75 a day (day one is a single all-day train |
| I am on XKCD |
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| 22-Aug-08 04:47 PM |
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| Well, sort of. I suspect a lot of geeks have experiences like this, though we don't normally get photoed in the act.
http://xkcd.com/466/:
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| Fridays Joke: In and out of puddles |
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| 22-Aug-08 04:57 AM |
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A guy walks into a bar holding three ducks. He sets them on the bar and orders a drink. After talking with the bartender for a while, the man excuses himself to use the restroom. The bartender feels a tad awkward with just himself and the three ducks at the bar, so he decides to make small talk with them. He asks the first, "What`s your name?"
"Huey" replies the duck.
"So, how`s your day been?"
"Oh, I`ve had a great day," replies Huey. "I`ve been in and out of puddles all day."
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| FlexUnit on Adobe Open Source |
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| 21-Aug-08 10:00 AM |
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| Following on from the news that Cairngorm has been moved to Adobe Open Source, it is my pleasure to announce that FlexUnit, the unit testing framework for Flex applications, now has a new home on Adobe Open Source. FlexUnit... |
| Publishing from GoogleDocs |
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| 20-Aug-08 09:20 PM |
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| Just trying to get sorted with posting to my MangoBlog with an external editor. Tried ScribeFire, I could connect ok, but posting didn't want to work and there didn't seem to be an error.
Update: Ok, so that works. Its nothing like as flexible as ScribeFire would be. Time to do a little asking around I think. If at first you don't succeed, cheat! ;oD |
| Google Adsence Referrals are going! |
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| 20-Aug-08 01:14 PM |
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Just a quick note to everyone out there, that from the end of August 2008, Google is removing the adsence referrals part of there programme
So If any of you are using this, i.e referrals to Firefox, Google Pack etc, then Log into your account and create something else for the space.
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| Google Adsense Referrals are going! |
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| 20-Aug-08 01:14 PM |
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Just a quick note to everyone out there, that from the end of August 2008, Google is removing the adsense referrals part of there programme
So If any of you are using this, i.e referrals to Firefox, Google Pack etc, then Log into your account and create something else for the space.
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| Sadly I have to stand down from CFDevCon |
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| 19-Aug-08 03:39 PM |
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Sadly due to a rather busy last few months I no longer have time to work on the CFDevCon conference and have to stand down.
I have to say that it's been a great experience trying to set this up - needless to say it's also been a lot of hard work. It's amazing how much work goes into these things and for that I want to thank everyone who organises conferences for all their hard work.
It's been a very hard decision and one that's kept me awake awake at night but due to business commi |
| BFusion & BFlex 08 |
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| 17-Aug-08 10:51 PM |
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| The team behind CFUnited is proud to sponsor BFusion & BFlex '08. http://bflex.info/ This is a two day FREE event with a CF on one day and Flex on the other. ColdFusion - Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Flex - Sunday, September 7th, 2008 HIGHLIGHTS 3 Reasons to attend 1. We are donating 200 Tag Posters for attendees of this event. We will also bring tag posters for every CFUnited Event and Sponsored Events, Including CFUnderground! 2. Attendees of BFusion will receive awesome |
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