User Interface By Crackheads

I know it sounds mean but you have to wonder who is making these decisions sometimes. I went to register a free account with my local newspaper today and it prompted me that I need to have it the format YYYY-MM-DD. Now who would decide to force the user to have to use that format? Why? Were they too lazy to add a few lines of code to account for the very normal US approach of MM-DD-YYYY? Are they really letting their obscure database set up dictate how the users use the system?

Spokeo

Finally something to help me track everything that my friends are up to on the internet.

http://www.spokeo.com/

Do you know how many of your friends blog on MySpace or upload photos to Flickr?
We don't think you do.

Spokeo searches popular networks for your friends' blogs, photos, videos and music.
We guarantee you'll learn something new about your friends.
Do you know how many of your friends blog on MySpace or upload photos to Flickr?
We don't think you do.

Spokeo searches popular networks for your friends' blogs, photos, videos and music.
We guarantee you'll learn something new about your friends

WiFi On Airplanes

Just a note, the one WiFi enabled plane that JetBlue will only allow for some Blackberry functionality and Yahoo as those are the 2 sponsors.

On Tuesday, JetBlue Airways will begin offering a free e-mail and instant messaging service on one of its planes, while American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines plan to offer broader Web access in coming months, probably at a cost around $10 a flight.

A Quick Facebook Oberservation

I'm getting more and more annoyed by Facebook. Adopt an alien, stalk a zombie, goose a vampire, save the shaven yak of mid-lower Mongolia. WHAT IS ALL THIS CRAP?!?!??!??? It's seeming that in trying to be nothing other than a conduit for other peoples stuff, Facebook is becoming closer and closer
to
being





...useless.


Shocking that in working toward doing nothing they'd become nothing, eh?

ColdFusion Datasources And SQL Server Express

I recently got a cheap new laptop. So it was time to install some new tools including ColdFusion 8 Developer Edition and MS SQL Server Express. I've done this before with previous versions and didn't have any issues. This time I did.

After spending some time trying to figure out what it was, I did a quick Google search. I wish that I would've done that from the start. Matt Woodward's excellent entry on configuring MS SQL Server Express for ColdFusion clued me in on the issue, configuring MS SQL Server Express' settings. Thanks for the help, Matt!

Satellite Radio

Having rented a car while driving out West the last few days I had plenty of time to listen to satellite radio. It hasn't changed my outlook on it; it has little to offer other than bandwidth. I enjoyed being able to listen to Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and some English Premier League games. And having both team's radio broadcasts to choose from for the football games was nice. Nevertheless, overall I didn't find it compelling. I would have been just as happy listening to my MP3 player for music and broadcasts. And other than the live NFL games, it would've been the same experience. The satellite radio companies offer a lot of bandwidth. But other than that, they don't have much to offer that the consumer doesn't already have.

Quick ColdFusion Project

I've got some time on my hands. I'm going to start a quick ColdFusion project that will later grow into something larger. It should be a good exercise in building something small that later grows and grows beyond it's planned scope. That's something very common in business. More so for me to get some of my CFC, quasi-OO ColdFusion code out there and exposed for others to critique.

ColdFusion In The Mountains

For those of you who find yourself saying "I'd love to live in the Mountains but I just can't find programming jobs there", now is your chance to step forward and snag one. It's for the Keystone Symposia which is in Silverthorne, Colorado. They're looking for a ColdFusion programmer. For those of you who don't know, there are 4 major ski resorts in the area (A-Basin, Copper Mtn, Breckenridge and Keystone). If you really want to give a go of living in the mountains, now's your chance.

Flex vs Ajax vs....

http://blog.schematic.com.au/?p=46

Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research completely misses the mark with an article highlighting the pro’s and con’s of the Flex vs AJAX frameworks.

Firstly, let me say that i’m a big fan of Forrester. For the most part they provide unbiased, educated and valuable research on a wide range of subjects (including rich internet application technologies). Unfortunately, in this case, it appears as though Hammond misses the mark on a number of points in his article and, and in turn, shows his ignorance of the facts.

Lets have a look at where Hammond gets it wrong…