Viewing by month: December 2009

Episode 1.10 - The Inverse Mohawk

In this, the second hour of a two part series, we discuss various news items from the month of November. In this episode, we talk about the recent release of Flex Builder for Linux and also a technote about installing ColdFusion 9 on 64bit Linux systems. We discuss some interestings browser quirks and concepts such as 'domain sharding'. And, we also take time to ponder on why it cost the US taxpayer $18 million to build Recovery.gov

This recording was made on Dec 2, 2009

RIApodcast.com-1.10.mp3
Size: 27.4 MB
Length: 59:57

Flex Builder for Linux
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2009/11/flex_builder_linux_alpha_5_rel.html

Windows 7 screen of death
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8388253.stm

Recovery.gov cost us $18 million to build
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/A-gold-plated-Recovery-20-50395992.html

ColdFusion 9 TechNote for installing ColdFusion 9 on 64-bit Linux
http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_cpsid_52919_en-us

Merlin Manager
http://www.merlinmanager.com

Common Listserver commands
http://www.webpan.com/Customers/Email/List/list_serv_commands.htm

charlie interested in new laptop--looking at intel I7 processor
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/index.htm

Parallel Browser Connections
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/03/20/roundup-on-parallel-connections/

Domain Sharding
http://stevesouders.com/efws/domains1.php

Book: "Even Faster Web Sites", O’Reilly 2009, Steve Souders
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596522304

Startup weekend Atlanta
http://atlanta.startupweekend.org/
Project - http://www.voicify.me
Using:
     - GAE:  http://code.google.com/appengine
     - Twilio: http://www.twilio.com

Josh Adams:  Presentastic:
http://blog.joshuaadams.com

Steve Drucker:
http://training.figleaf.com/courses/acfd9.cfmhttp://training.figleaf.com/courses/acfd9beta.cfm

John Mason
http://stiletto.riaforge.org

Scott Talsma
http://talsma.tv/

Rudi's podcast
http://www.beyondwebanalytics.com

Our small Video recording
http://qik.com/video/3770723

Episode 1.9 - Cockroaches will find a way to live!

Featuring: Josh Adams, Charlie Arehart, John Mason and Cheyenne Throckmorton

In this, the first hour of a two part series, we discuss various news items from the month of November. In this episode, we review some of the recent articles on caching. We also highlight some of the new beta products released by Adobe and Microsoft. We find Charlie is still alive and is ranting about blog spam. And we also discuss the recent software configuration problem that took the FAA down for 4 hours.

This recording was made on December 2, 2009

Download: RIApodcast.com-1.9.mp3
Size: 25.1 MB
Length: 54min

Starting question - What was the first version of Windows that you used?
 Charlie - version 2.11
 John - version 2.? and Windows NT 3.51 on the server side
 Cheyenne - version 3
 Josh - Windows 95

Scorched Earth - Tank game from the early days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

The end of FuseNG
http://cfrant.blogspot.com/2009/11/fuseng-update.html

CFWheels 1.0 release (upcoming cfmeetup talks, videos on vimeo http://vimeo.com/channels/cfwheels)
http://cfwheels.org/

ColdFusion Meetup upcoming events
http://www.coldfusionmeetup.com

Rob Brooks-Bilson's Caching series
http://www.brooks-bilson.com/blogs/rob/index.cfm/2009/11/16/Caching-Enhancements-in-ColdFusion-9--Part-5-Getting-to-Know-Ehcache

Aaron west's 14 days of CF9 caching
http://www.trajiklyhip.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/11/17/14Days-of-ColdFusion-9-Caching-Day-1--Caching-a-Full-Page

Call for speakers for CFUnited open through mid-january
http://callforspeakers.cfconf.org/

Charlie blogged about spying on CF-to-ORM database activity, several ways
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/11/14/spy_on_orm

FlashPlayer 10.1 beta
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Flash CS5 beta; compiling to iPhone apps
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/

AIR 2.0 beta
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/

Silverlight 4 beta is available
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-4-beta-is-now-available/

Free week of online Flex training
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/)

Charlie looking for a RIA solution
http://www.carehart.org/

CF9 hotfix for problems doing CF9 update, issue with migration wizard.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/527/cpsid_52797.html

Charlie rants: bloggers who don't stop comment spam; bloggers who don't identify themselves
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/8/3/Blocking_comment_spam
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2006/10/6/bloggers_please_identify_yourselves

If you run a google group, I blogged how to dramatically cut spam messages
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/11/21/stop_googlegroup_spam

Our small Video recording
http://qik.com/video/3770723