Blogs & RSS in Plain English

The title speaks for itself, but why blog about this?  Especially to a group as tech savy as we are?  Well to share an experience I have been going though at work lately.  At the company I work for we have a pretty wide range of age groups, well actually we have a …

Skinning the Mango Blog Engine

Last week while I was at WebManiacs I decided I wanted to go with a different theme for my blog.  The GlossyBlue one was nice, but a lot of people are using it and I wanted to be a bit more unique.  I searched around and found a couple free WordPress themes and …

WebManiacs - Day 1 & 2 overview

Day 1:

Ben Forta kicked off the event with a couple charts on where CF is now, and where its going.  He emphasized more on LiveCycle integration, Flex Integration and BlazeDS.  There was some confusion as to what exactly the difference is between the LiveCycle DS ES & …

Here in DC

Here in DC for webmaniacs conference.  Looking forward to it.  I have been doing the whole site seeing thing for the past 3 days and am ready to get back to work :)  I am staying @ the Homewood Suites (Hilton) off of 15th/Mass.  If anyone is interested in getting a …

World of WarCrack Vid

Not sure if anyone knew that I play WoW, I used to play pretty heavily.  I had a high end guild that I helped run for awhile before the new x-pak and realized I was simply playing way to much, so I toned it down a bit.  Now I just do pvp stuff and level alts. 

Anyway, …

WebManiacs Agenda

I fly out this Friday to prepare for the webmaniacs conference next week.  My wife and I are doing a little site seeing prior to the conference over the weekend.  Should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to getting away from work for a little bit and spending …

Apple-ism

For all you appelites out there (yes I am a convert myself), Check this video out.  Pretty creative.

Patterns, Patterns and more Patterns!

I was reading through some blogs this morning, some how I managed to read a July 2007 post on Sean Corfield's site nearly a year later... which sent me to Brian Rinald's blog and Matt Woodwards Blog about Design patterns in CF  (both are good reads, why I didnt see …

Searching for a flex component that does this...

I Googled and checked out flex.org for a component that has already been built that mimics the functionality provided in the two links below.  I have seen it on quite a few sites today and I like how it flows.  I think this would be great as a flex component.  Before I …

Yahoo using CF?

A colleague of mine sent me a couple links on Yahoo's site that actually had ".cfm" extensions.   My first thought was, wow.  My second thought was I wonder if they plan on using CF in other areas besides the press room and in job post? 

Contact Manager Part 2 - Cairngorm Example

This example uses the Contact Manager, a (very) simple flex application, that I talked about in Part 1 "Contact Manager Part 1 - Remoting Example".   I took that application and modified it to use the Cairngorm framework - "Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet …

Avoid creating.....

Just ran into this the other day and I thought I would share it.  I have a application that I recently converted over to CF8 and ran into a small snag.  I was using Illidium PU-36 Code Generator and had a table called roles, user and an associate table called …

ShoppingAds Custom Tag for Mango

I created a new custom tag called "ShoppingAds".  I am not a fan of using custom tags in Mango, I prefer the plugins.  Why? Well with the custom tags you have to insert them into your skin templates and I honestly dont like doing that.  What if the skin template gets …