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Archive for April, 2009

Need Recommendation: Solid Web Shop

Our company is looking to re-do our corporate website with a more marketing focus. We’re looking for a solid web shop, with tons of experience re-doing sites, and if possible, some level of ColdFusion experience. Must haves: Marketing experience (How to design sites, SEO, etc) Great CSS Skills Great Graphic Design Skills Nice to haves: [...]

Chambers calls Cloud Computing a "Security Nightmare"

Cisco’s CEO calls Cloud Computing a nightmare. Read more @ http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131998&source=rss_news.

Oracle to Buy Sun!

Oracle will own Java, MySQL, Sparc, Solaris, etc! IBM lost this round! Read more @ http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE53J2DD20090420 http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/Oracle_Sun/?postversion=2009042008 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/companies/21sun.html?ref=technology http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10223044-92.html

Sean Corfield Sucks! (jk)

C’mon, dude, how long have we known each other, like 5 and half years? (I love to create a little controversy, especially in times like these.) But no, its nothing really, except that he stole my idea of comparing ColdBox with Mach II and Model Glue. Oh well, I’ll continue with some other documentation about [...]

Lousy ColdFusion Job Posting #3

Am I the only one suddenly receiving a massive influx of ColdFusion (and non-CF) related job offers and propositions? Today, i received another one that made me wince. I’m going to paste it verbatim. The city is spelled wrong, the requirement are EXTREMELY generic, and the only reference to the actual job is that it [...]

IE 8 Compatibility View – Meta Tag, User Agent

By now, you have probably had a chance to play with IE8. Couple things as developers to note: First, if your website is having issues, add this meta tag while you figure out the problem. <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ /> Next, if the problem persists, it may be related to code you put to purposely look [...]

My Bio is Up

If you’re interested, my bio has been added to the “About Me” section. Read more @ http://www.bytestopshere.com/page.cfm/about-me.

Is Apple going to buy Adobe?

Is Apple going to buy Adobe? I doubt it, but a ZDNet Analyst think so. Read more @ http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16221.

A Good Laugh – Government use of Acrobat Connect

In case you need a good laugh, check out this webcast. At least they are using it, right? Webcast @ http://tcg.na3.acrobat.com/p63062211/ Turn up the audio!

Subversion 1.6.1 Released

See the text of the announcement below. I’m happy to announce Subversion 1.6.1, available from:     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.1.tar.bz2    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.1.tar.gz    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.1.zip    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.bz2    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.gz    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.1.zip The MD5 checksums are:     95708b96b920faeffca017f43ec96777  subversion-1.6.1.tar.bz2    32014fe70397357fa1e0ef8f937a0232  subversion-1.6.1.tar.gz    e6d1871ac64a16417773abc4da0a4520  subversion-1.6.1.zip    4c76dd10a3767db04717e357dc090348  subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.bz2    75e1493c02a56b5aadc24326d963326c  subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.gz    081553b5693e0b0cb266f7ca56f25b10  subversion-deps-1.6.1.zip The SHA1 checksums are:     de01efed25505d689c369a67fbf9b2d2f02e4795  subversion-1.6.1.tar.bz2    aad29d357ad58206570b0049bd8a565e9529d908  subversion-1.6.1.tar.gz    c6a3653a08c9700fce3663e9e2a234bf958ea9f3  subversion-1.6.1.zip    17dfee86ca0187b9171242db25087b6f48cbed8d  subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.bz2    1493f18ee9143da746356198ea7013823585f159  subversion-deps-1.6.1.tar.gz    4cda3414d9aba0902db22181241bd678f6567bb9  [...]

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