December 2011
1 post
When Steve Jobs Died, I Wept
On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs passed away. As I received news of his passing, I shed a tear. I wept. Steve Jobs was many things. He was a businessman and an innovator. More importantly, for some, he was a father.
I wept, not for passing of Steve Jobs but for what it represented - an acknowledgement and reminder to us of our own mortality. It was a reminder to me of my own father’s...
March 2011
1 post
Decisions
When I was going off to college, I thought it might be a wise decision to buy a car. I knew of a 1976 Chevy Nova 4 door that was for sale. It didn’t have AC, but had a nicely tuned 327. May dad and I took it out for a test drive. I really wanted this car. My dad said, “No.” I needed to buy a computer. I did.
The computer wasn’t that great. It was put together with parts...
February 2011
1 post
Four Week Challenge
I’m posting this a little later than I wanted and I’ll keep it short. I’m taking part in a four week challenge. The challenge is to learn something knew or expand knowledge on a particular topic in four weeks.
For this challenge, I’m diving back into Rails. The idea is to spend some time with Rails each day. It doesn’t have to be a large chunk of time, but I have to...
January 2011
1 post
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FW Geek Dinner, Revisited
HISTORY
When I moved to Fort Wayne, I hardly knew anyone. Being a telecommuter didn’t make it easy to meet people. I was fortunate enough to meet a couple of other telecommuters, Mike Krisher and Nathan Yergler, early on and we started meeting on a regular basis to “talk shop” over at Old Crown Coffee Roasters. After a few months, we all decided it would be a good idea to invite...
December 2010
1 post
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
A found a new font. I’m using it for programming on Mac and Windows.
November 2010
1 post
Web Designers VS Web Developers →
September 2010
7 posts
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Ten Men Walk Into A Bar →
The Journal of Applied Disruption: A Surefire... →
applieddisruption:
Undeniably, showing up on the first page of Google results for your most vital keywords creates opportunities for your organization. Getting there the right way can make the difference between creating opportunities for a week or opportunities for a lifetime.
“Great content, well-structured and…
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Needed ColdFusion Hibernate Improvements
Adobe made some nice improvements to Hibernate integration in the latest 9.0.1 update.
The nicest addition is the ability to work with multiple datasources in a single application.
I feel the implementation leaves much to be desired. Here’s where it falls short:
Additional datasources are differentiated with the “datasource” attribute in the CFC metadata
Across all...
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The Entrepreneur Update - September 8, 2010
Coworking Spaces (avc.com)
New Trends In Startup Financing Explained For Laymen (kalzumeus.com)
Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers (steveblank.com)
Nailed It (Not): Our First Twitter Post, Circa 2006 (techcrunch.com)
How to Manage a One-Person Sales Force (inc.com)
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CBS Sports FAIL
I don’t know how fumbled this one. Was it the developer or the QA engineer? Maybe both are to blame. I know the casual user doesn’t see the meta data when visiting your site. Meta data matters when you share a link via Facebook.
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ColdFusion + Migrations
Wait. What? Database versioning with ColdFusion? Not exactly. If you’re building any type of web application on Linux or Unix (Mac OS X included), there’s no reason you can’t leverage a little bit of ruby goodness in the form of ActiveRecord::Migration.
Migrations in ActiveRecord do a wonderful job of versioning your database, especially if you work on a distributed team, or...
Web Application Developer
Artisan or engineer?
August 2010
3 posts
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All Roads Lead to Rails →
I know this video is old, but, it’s still very relevant. It’s another one of my favorites on the topic of software development.
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The Entrepreneur Update - August 30, 2010
The 10 Most Important Business Lessons I’ve Learned (ryanallis.com)
How a startup should leverage a personal assistant (blog.asmartbear.com)
What A CEO Does (avc.com)
GrocerEye cofounder demonstrates the secrets of a great pitch (entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)
Hopefully, this post will be the first of many to follow. On a regular basis, I’ll attempt to compile a list of links to articles...
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So Long Slashdot
For years, I’d take a glance at Slashdot on a daily basis. For the past several weeks, I haven’t looked at it, even once. I can’t explain it. I’m just not interested anymore.
July 2010
4 posts
Low esteem and the factory →
Words of wisdom from Seth Godin.
Doug Richard on Lifestyle Businesses →
Moving Away from Dreamhost
Six years ago, I set up an account on Dreamhost. I have nothing against Dreamhost. They have served me well over the years. I paid $10.95 per month and I got basic hosting.
Initially, I used Dreamhost for a personal website to host Gallery (of which Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress was a contributor). I also used Dreamhost for email until Google Apps came out.
One of my goals was to build some PHP...
January 2009
1 post
Zed Shaw: The ACL is Dead @ CUSEC 2008 →
November 2008
2 posts
Programmer Fonts →
A list of various fonts that are friendly to programmers. I’m using ProggyOpti on the Mac and Triskweline on Windows.