Posted on November 30th, 2011 by Shan
All of my current open-source projects are now hosted on GitHub. The ability to easily fork projects, along with the whole concept of pull requests, made the move an easy decision. You can see all the projects at https://github.com/iotashan
Posted on December 21st, 2010 by Shan
I’m going to set aside a little time each week to blog about my experiences with developing Pintley. This is the first in hopefully a long-running series 
Posted on October 11th, 2010 by Shan
Most of you know I’m now full-time with Pintley. I love it. The project is awesome, if I do say so myself, and I’m working with all the latest and greatest technologies. CF9, ORM, Solr, Flex, and of course developing our application for both the desktop browser and mobile platforms, hosting up in the cloud… [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Shan
I’m happy to announce that earlier this month Pintley finally left private beta! Pintley is like Pandora, but for beer… You sign up, rate beer you like/don’t like, and it provides recommendations for more beer to try. Since most of the people reading this blog are techies, you’ll be happy to know that the back-end [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Shan
Virgin Mobile is launching it’s prepaid MiFi next week. I’ve already told you that the VirginMobile Broadband2Go USB thingy works great, so I expect the same service from their MiFi. At the most expensive end, they cost the same as Verizon ($60 for 5GB), and at the lower end, it’s probably cheaper than paid hotel [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Shan
Having spent the better part of 2010 building PDF reports, I can say that I would like to see a complete overhaul of cfdocument. It’s time to bring the HTML and PDF support up to current standards. If I had to narrow it down to a few specifics, here we go: Whatever is currently limiting [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Shan
Recently, I found the need to have a wireless broadband card. This is my story. Verizon MiFi At first I went with a Verizon MiFi. It looked like I was going to be doing enough commuting to warrant getting a full-blown 2-year data plan. Looking at the options MiFi seemed like the obvious choice, and [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Shan
My blog has been sorely neglected. Work had taken over pretty much all free time, but I’m starting to get a handle on things again. That being said, I’m diving deep in to Flex 4 development, and I should have my first iPhone application finished this summer. Oh, and I’m speaking at a couple conferences. [...]
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 [...]
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.