Archive | July, 2007

31 July 2007 ~ 5 Comments

Thats right I said "DirtBoard”, Sucka!

So if anybody follows my twitters you would know that I am a lonely man on my own. My wife is out in the wilderness camping with my daughter. This is a family outing that we do every year, but this year I needed to stay behind. But the real killer is [...]

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31 July 2007 ~ 4 Comments

Cleaning up the office server rack

Ok, so I will be the first to admit I am a coder. I make a pretty good sys-admin too. But I have never declared myself to be a network engineer or whatever the heck I need to be to know the correct way to wire a rack.
What I do know is that [...]

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31 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Switching Blog Engines

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I get bored easy. I go through phases and I need to change things up. To that end I have moved my blog on over to http://blog.simb.net. I have several posts over there. I have redirected my rss feeds to my new feedburner url (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSimfluence). If you subscribe directly to my [...]

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30 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Communicating Between AS2 and AS3

gskinner.com: gBlog: SWFBridge: Easier AS3 to AS2 Communication
I just saw this article and wanted to mark it  down for later consumption.  It appears Grant has taken all the grunt work out of using localconnection to communicate between the 2 types of applications.
Wicked slick!

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30 July 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Cairngorm Events – Updating the view

So I have an app I am building at work and we started it about 5 months ago. I put in about 3 weeks building a prototype of the UI and then got pulled onto another project. Now its time to revisit it and I found some design choices I am unsure about.

So [...]

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30 July 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Reasons Why I chose Typo

Over on Wood for the Trees I found an article that backs up my choice for using Typo as my new blog platform. Although Matthew doesnt really get into the hard core parts of why to use Typo, he covers why not to use WordPress which I think is almost as important when considering [...]

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30 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

New Blog System and Site

Well its seems kinda funny. On the day Adobe releases ColdFusion 8 I launch a new blog that doesnt use CF at all. Regulars will notice that the url for my site has changed. I am now blogging from blog.simb.net as a subdomain. I am using Typo a rails based blog [...]

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20 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Apple Stock on the Move?

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I was following twitter this morning and noticed a couple posts from Eric about apples stock prices. In one he mentions an article that was published today that expects apple shares to reach as high as $205 a share. Thats seemed amazingly high to me so I started looking around. As everyone [...]

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10 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

onAIR Tour Bus – First Stop Seattle

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Well the onAIR tour bus made its first days trip yesterday. I had a great time following the Twits from the bus as well as checking in once in a while to see live video feed.
Today the gang is doing a full day workshop in Seattle Washington. Tomorrow they swing out to Vancouver [...]

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