Christmas for Geeks!

December 13, 2004

There are only two days left for geeks that haven't made all their holiday gift requests to add one more to the list. But you've got to act fast! Until December 15th, you can still wrangle a loved one into purchasing a Community MX Gift Certificate. And because we want your loved one to feel [...]

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sIFR Release Candidate 2 Has Arrived…

December 9, 2004

Just released, sIFR RC2. I just downloaded the new version to update a project. I have another in the works now that will really benefit from beautiful image-like headings. They've fixed some Opera quirks as well as the Flash URL limit. Be sure to check it out. And if you haven't been following along and [...]

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Shell Scripts, CF and those Pesky Macintosh Line Breaks

November 30, 2004

OK, so it took me a bit longer than Sheri German to get everything set up right, but I finally have JRun and ColdFusion running on my OS X Panther install! I have been wanting to do this for about a year. But all the stories I read online seemed to make it sound like [...]

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You Go Google…

November 22, 2004

Let's say your company or client has decided to allot advertising dollars to banner advertising and/or paid placement. You sign up with Google for the Adsense program and find yourself with quite a bill but very little useful traffic. Perhaps you're not advertising poorly — you may be a victim of click fraud. According to [...]

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MAX 2004 Keynotes Online

November 17, 2004

Macromedia has posted video of the keynote sessions from MAX. The sessions were interesting and if you have some time, this is well worth seeing. On Day One, Kevin Lynch talked about the Evolution of Flash. There was info on Blackstone and the new Maelstrom player which rocks! Check it out at Macromedia MAX.

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My Big Fat MAX Update

November 9, 2004

Macromedia MAX — now there's an interesting event! I spent four days in geek bliss. I knew it was destined the moment I landed in the New Orleans airport. Even landing from a midnight flight, I could sense them. I glanced around while waiting for the van to transport us to our hotels. I knew [...]

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Scary OS X Worm/Trojan … Oh My!

October 25, 2004

Once again, fingers are madly typing about a frightening OS X threat. The Opener can steal your personal information and open a back door on your computer. It might even destroy data. It was mentioned last week on Slashdot. CNet News has done an article quoting the Anti-Virus creators. Sounds scary, huh? Not. It's a [...]

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Kernel Panics Lead to User Panics

October 17, 2004

Without boring you with the sordid, horrendous details, I'll just say that my computer crashed Wednesday morning. Hard. And after spending nearly 6 hours trying to fix it myself, I took it to the local Mac repair guy (we only have one in our small town). Due to a chain of stupid events, it wasn't [...]

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Surviving the 'Canes

October 7, 2004

I grew up in Florida. But man, I don't remember having more than a handful of strong hurricanes. What in the world is going on down there? I still have friends all over the area and they've been through alot the last couple months. One web friend, Peb (who goes by the name MarshBunny), after [...]

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sIFR — the Release Candidate

October 7, 2004

I just noticed that Mike and Mark have a release candidate of the sIFR technique (pronounced “siffer”). Can't wait to put it up on a couple sites. I think I'll put it here on the blog for you guys to see over the weekend (if I can find some extra time. The technique grew out [...]

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