Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Shan
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been accepted to speak at bFlex/bFusion. This makes for the third conference I’ll be speaking out in the next couple months. Here’s my schedule:
CFinNC (Oct 17-18)
Topic: Searching with Apache Solr
bFlex/bFusion (Oct 24-25)
Topic: Learn Apache Solr in 90 Minutes
RIA Unleashed (Nov 13)
Topic: Getting the most Development from your Mac
CFinNC and [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Shan
Greetings, Adobe Feed readers! Just thought I’d get some last-second word out that the Madison Adobe User Group meeting is today at MATC. Paul Trani is going to be presenting “Trick Out Adobe Photoshop CS4″
For more information and to RSVP, check out the Adobe Groups page.
Tags: Madison User Group, Photoshop
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Posted on August 14th, 2009 by Shan
Ok, so the town-hall shouters are not helpful in any way, so I pose this question to you, my intelligent peers, friends and family. Grandma’s not going to be killed by a death panel, we’re not plotting the destruction of the private insurance sector, and medicare isn’t going to get killed off next year. What [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2009 by Shan
I spent a few hours yesterday formatting my Mac Pro and reinstalling OS X. When I formatted the drive, I thought that it would be great to set the file system to be case sensitive. A few hours later, with my OS updated & set up how I wanted, I started installing applications. I went [...]
Tags: Adobe, Case Sensitive, Creative Suite, HFS+
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Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Shan
Adobe wrote these great, free ColdFusion Curriculum projects for new and intermediate ColdFusion developers. I recently had a friend interested in getting started with ColdFusion, and I pointed him in this direction. He came back to me a few days later, wondering if ColdFusion was really supported on the Mac. I asked him why he [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Shan
I love my Mighty Mouse. Like many others, my grubby hands eventually caused the scroll ball to stop scrolling in one or more directions. I tried the official Apple instructions to clean the ball, but it didn’t really work. Others have suggested compressed air and other tricks, but I didn’t have any luck with those, [...]
Tags: How To
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Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Shan
Twice now, I’ve had companies where I paid for services via PayPal. Last year, I was co-locating one of my servers with FDC Servers. They decided one day to unplug my server and throw it in a closet, and hold it hostage for an evening. Needless to say, I canceled my service and moved it [...]
Tags: PayPal
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Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Shan
Thanks to Matt Chotin, Violet has added a crossdomain.xml file to their API. So, I went in and removed all the code that was needed for the proxy.
Enjoy version 1.1!
Tags: Actionscript, AIR, Flex, NabaztagAPI
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Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Shan
As a new Charter customer, I quickly became frustrated with Charter’s automatic search page. What happens is, if you type something like “google” into your browser’s URL bar, you get redirected to a Charter branded search page. This is extremely frustrating, and the best that Charter offers is an opt-out cookie that you have to [...]
Tags: Charter
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Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Shan
Just a reminder that I’ll be presenting at the Madison Adobe User Group meeting on Tuesday. I’ll be presenting an intro to Flex/AIR/ColdFusion at American Family Insurance. Click the link for more info
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/b5381e2718
Sorry if you already read this on the Webapper blog
Tags: AIR, ColdFusion, Flex, Madison User Group
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