Guess they couldn't give you the upper hand while you were still around.
Adobe's statement in the style of a child ....
"We give up on Adobe Flash for Mobile .. pfftt ....whatever ... "
They also said HTML5 was a better technology, even though we all know that means more than 1 single technology and browser capabilities have enhanced, but it is for the laymen to comprehend. Words I heard you say a couple of years back when the original war started with Adobe.
Can't wait to see what you left for us in the TV world.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Setting up SQL Server 2008 Express with Profiler
Today I needed to use the SQL profiler which unfortunately is not included in the tools that are bundled with SQL Server Express. Then I found this article that shows you how to get it done with a command line entry.
Thank you Tony Sneed!
http://blog.tonysneed.com/2010/08/05/setting-up-sql-server-2008-express-with-profiler/
Thank you Tony Sneed!
http://blog.tonysneed.com/2010/08/05/setting-up-sql-server-2008-express-with-profiler/
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Updating GIT on Mac OSX Lion
Today I had an issues that was driving me crazy, so I thought I would share my experience and hopefully it helps someone. The scenario is that you want to update your local git install to the latest version but after running the installer you still see the previous version you had. For example, when I ran the following command I would get:
This is the git version installed by XCode. I expected to see git version 1.7.7 which is the latest install (at time of this post) that I downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list.
So the first thing I tried to do is edit my .profile and .bash_profile files so I would add the correct path to use and after several attempts nothing.
You see the google installer installs git into
So after several attempts in editing all my .profile files that are read by the bash and attempting to put the installer's path into my $PATH variable I came into a helpful post that stated to edit the
I closed my terminal window and opened a new one ran the following and ....
.... SUCCESS!!!!
Hopefully this helps someone having the same issue I had.
git --version
git version 1.7.5.4
This is the git version installed by XCode. I expected to see git version 1.7.7 which is the latest install (at time of this post) that I downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list.
So the first thing I tried to do is edit my .profile and .bash_profile files so I would add the correct path to use and after several attempts nothing.
You see the google installer installs git into
/usr/local/git/bin/git but the version in use is /usr/bin/git which is the version installed by Xcode.
So after several attempts in editing all my .profile files that are read by the bash and attempting to put the installer's path into my $PATH variable I came into a helpful post that stated to edit the
/etc/paths file and place the installer path first in the list like so:
/usr/local/git/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
I closed my terminal window and opened a new one ran the following and ....
git --version
git version 1.7.7
.... SUCCESS!!!!
Hopefully this helps someone having the same issue I had.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Today, Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple passed away from pancreatic cancer at 56 years young. As an individual, he truly inspired me and created such a loyal and proud love to a single brand. I never had the privilege to meet him face to face and I am sure all that did are very saddened today. My condolences go out to all his family and friends!
If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com
If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com
Monday, August 01, 2011
How I Got Started In ColdFusion
This post is inspired by Steve Bryant's suggestion to make August 1st, 2011 the "How I Got Started In ColdFusion" day.
My story is quite simple but it started back in 1998-99, can't quite pin point the date. You see I was a musician (kinda still am - you can check out anytime you want but you you can never leave) and that was pretty much my life. It consumed me and it was all that mattered and all that I would work for. So one day my band needed a website and they asked me to go ahead and find a company to do it for us. After some research we found out that what we wanted would end up costing us over $2,000 and the problem with that was, we were broke! Not broke, like man I can't go out tonight ... some of us were so broke - like living at the studio that I practiced in and eating friend's leftovers - yeap me. Oh well, one of the guitarist's had an uncle that decided to help us and with that, so I tagged along and learned how to create my first site in ... FrontPage, I know the horror. It was not long before I purchased an HTML book and started to learn more on my own and with help of other friends they got me off FontPage and introduced me to my love, Dreamweaver.
I know, what about ColdFusion? Well the same friend that got me off FrontPage said, "hey how cool would it be to capture people's emails on your band's website" (FYI - this was another band now - about a year later) and I was like "yeah, cool how can we do it". He then said, there is this language called ColdFusion and it makes it painfully simple. He said all you need to know was 3 tags and you could be a rockstar ... introduction to cfquery, cfoutput and cfmail. Needless to say, after a few months I went to work for this friend and within months I outgrew the company and had the opportunity to go out on my own.
Since then I have worked on many projects, met many wonderful people and even was able to fly to London because of an application that I built (purchased by LabOne - now owned by Quest - no I am not rich, this was my hard lesson learned back in '01) and all this because of 3 little tags. Well, more than 3 tags because that was only the beginning. I was not satisfied with 3 tags, I wanted to learn more and so I did and still continue to do so everyday. I am now the South Florida ColdFusion User's Group co-manager and I am glad to give back everyday what a dear friend of mine gave me so long ago and that is an introduction to a language that changed my life and has given one opportunity after another.
To my dear friend Matt Mehler, not only did you give me this blessing but without you I would never be where I am at today and with the wonderful woman I call my wife, thank you for having her answer my calls - I know I was hard to deal with.
My story is quite simple but it started back in 1998-99, can't quite pin point the date. You see I was a musician (kinda still am - you can check out anytime you want but you you can never leave) and that was pretty much my life. It consumed me and it was all that mattered and all that I would work for. So one day my band needed a website and they asked me to go ahead and find a company to do it for us. After some research we found out that what we wanted would end up costing us over $2,000 and the problem with that was, we were broke! Not broke, like man I can't go out tonight ... some of us were so broke - like living at the studio that I practiced in and eating friend's leftovers - yeap me. Oh well, one of the guitarist's had an uncle that decided to help us and with that, so I tagged along and learned how to create my first site in ... FrontPage, I know the horror. It was not long before I purchased an HTML book and started to learn more on my own and with help of other friends they got me off FontPage and introduced me to my love, Dreamweaver.
I know, what about ColdFusion? Well the same friend that got me off FrontPage said, "hey how cool would it be to capture people's emails on your band's website" (FYI - this was another band now - about a year later) and I was like "yeah, cool how can we do it". He then said, there is this language called ColdFusion and it makes it painfully simple. He said all you need to know was 3 tags and you could be a rockstar ... introduction to cfquery, cfoutput and cfmail. Needless to say, after a few months I went to work for this friend and within months I outgrew the company and had the opportunity to go out on my own.
Since then I have worked on many projects, met many wonderful people and even was able to fly to London because of an application that I built (purchased by LabOne - now owned by Quest - no I am not rich, this was my hard lesson learned back in '01) and all this because of 3 little tags. Well, more than 3 tags because that was only the beginning. I was not satisfied with 3 tags, I wanted to learn more and so I did and still continue to do so everyday. I am now the South Florida ColdFusion User's Group co-manager and I am glad to give back everyday what a dear friend of mine gave me so long ago and that is an introduction to a language that changed my life and has given one opportunity after another.
To my dear friend Matt Mehler, not only did you give me this blessing but without you I would never be where I am at today and with the wonderful woman I call my wife, thank you for having her answer my calls - I know I was hard to deal with.
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