Today is the Summer Solstice and my birthday. Today I am 56 and in 4 days, Emerald wil be 22 months. Dang, I feel old.
On another note, I stopped by BestBuy and picked up the EVO I ordered. So far, I am very impressed with it. In fact, I am very impressed with it. I connected it via bluetooth to my Nissan Pathfnder and it worked perfectly.
Thank you HTC. Finally a model that works with a Nissan.
Tomorrow, I root the phone and start working on my own custom ROM.
It has been exactly four years since my current notebook arrived at my doorstep from Toshiba. My first laptop was a Toshiba 405CDT and I've been a Toshiba 'Fanboy' ever since. The current system is a Satellite A100-S8111TD with 4GB of memory and 400 GB drive, running Windows 7.
The battery only last about 20 minutes, and it is far from perfect. The power switch has problems. The Caps Lock LED will not turn on. One of the battery clips is broken. It shows a lot of wear but overall it runs great and I have grown to depend on this ancient technology.
I almost hate to retire this machine, but in a couple of weeks, its replacement will be here and this unit will be used to run the Light-O-Rama light display.
After a year of procrastination, today I order a new notebook. I usually wait no more than three years. This time almost four years has gone by with the same computer. That's darn good considering how tough I am on hardware. My current system is running so well I hadn't noticed how old this thing is.
I don't have an exact count, but I think this is the 14th Toshiba laptop/notebook I have owned. Some have been replaced when only a year old and others at three years and they have all been Toshiba models.
A few weeks ago, I broke my HTC Touch Pro. It was a great phone and I was very happy with it. But with all good things, it is no longer being offered.
My wife has an iPhone and she is very happy with it. The big problem with the iPhone is it keeps dropping calls. I never dropped a call with the T9ouch Pro and in fact, you could call me a HTC fanboy.
Today was a good day for developers. Adobe released AIR 2.0 beta 2 and Google will stop support for IE 6.
I am excited for AIR 2.0 as it adds: enhanced support for interacting with printers, support for the detection of mass storage devices, multi-touch and gesture support and the webkit has been updated with HTML5/CSS3 support.
And now for something completly different:
Today marks the one month anniversary since the rebirth of this blog. I had made the decision to write at least one entry each day. After a month of blogging, there are times when I don't have an entry worth blogging about. So I have decided to try Monday to Friday for the time. I will see how that goes and maybe I will spend less time on my laptop during the weekend.
Two weeks ago Adobe released the latest list of community experts, at the same time, rebranding the program. Denver is the home to 7 of these professional experts. I have met most of them and look forward to meeting the rest. Congratulations to all of them.
David Hassoun, RealEyes Media, Rich Internet Applications
RJ Owen, EffectiveUI, Flex
Brian Reyman, , InDesign
Rob Rusher, On3, Flex
Juan Sanchez, EffectiveUI, Flex
Paul Trani, Starz Entertainment, Web Design
John Wilker, 360|Conferences, Flex
Being a huge fan of ColdFusion (though there was a time I jumped ship) I may be somewhat biased, but I know what will earn me the most money in the least amount of time. Since the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has provided web developers with some fantastic technologies.
If you're a ColdFusion developer, these technologies are easily merged together to allow you to build fantastic client/server applications. If you don't use ColdFusion, these technologies are easily merged into client/server applications regardless of your backend. Adobe is providing all web developers the tools needed to rule the web and most of these tools come at little to no cost to the developer.
It seems that Adobe's plan for the web is not unlike their plan for print media. Adobe is a company with a vision to the future and a hindsight to the past.
So, yes, I am an Adobe FanBoy.
As 2009 has come to its end, I have decided to start 2010 as an active blogger. So many bloggers have helped me during the past 4 years and with their help, I have become a better programmer. To Ray, Sean, Ben, Todd, Brian, Mark and Dan, just to a few, I am grateful for all the time others have spent answering my questions.
In return for their help, I will pass on what I have learned in hopes to improve the ColdFusion community and encourage those that follow.
While I have been blogging since my days at Boardwatch Magazine, I never kept up a personal site. So after some false starts, I have a new domain name, a new design and a new blog. I look forward to actually recording my discoveries, and becoming part of the ColdFusion bloggers.
2009 was a pretty good year and I think 2010 will be much better. I look forward to the fun.
