So, I managed to volunteer myself to code (if possible) Derby support into BlogCFC. I'm brand spankin' new to Derby. I managed to tweak the table create scripts enough to get them to run. That is as far as I have gotten. I hope to start looking into the scope of the project tonight. Who knows, maybe it'll be less work than I imagine.

I saw Barney's post about riding to work, and thought that I'd relate my own experience too. I've been over 6 feet tall since junior high. And I was always rail thin. (Some people mistakenly thing I still am.) And, I always had physical jobs. In 1999 I was about 6'4" and 190 lb. And I frequently had double-bacon-cheese burgers for breakfast off the catering wagon. :-) However, around the beginning of this millennium, I started working behind a computer.

In march I created a BlogCFC pod to show Twitter messages using the JS Twitter badge script. Recently, Twitter changed the location of the script. So, my script http://www.twitter.com/t/status/user_timeline/3026521?callback=twitterCallback&count=10 changed to http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/3026521.json?callback=twitterCallback&count=10 Also, Twitter's server seems to have load issues at times. This can pause pages to render slowly while they wait for the script file.

I saw this story about Google Gears on Ryan's blog earlier. It is such cool news that I wanted to make sure it got spread. Having a consistent cross-browser, cross-platform way to implement an "occasionally connected" work-flow for web-applications seems like huge news to me. Plus, Google + Adobe + Mozilla = Happy if you ask me. I've already installed Gears and tried it with Google Reader under both WinXP and PCLinuxOS 2007.

Every time I turn around Google is doing some new ridiculously cool thing. This time it's Google Maps Street View. Check out this link. I just picked a street in San Fran at random and started heading down it. I noticed some people. So, I zoomed in. If you knew these guys, you'd easily recognize them. Where's Sean's house? Maybe I can cruise by and see some of his beautiful cats in the window sill. I'd love to know when the Google Street View trucks come to PDX.

Read this if you just want to fix it and don't care about my story. (Don't worry, I have thick skin.) I just did a fresh install of PCLinuxOS 2007 final. I was having some trouble backing things up before installing. So, I figured, "screw it", I'll just install everything from scratch again. I'm new to Linux, so, I need the practice. :-) The first thing I ran into is that Firefox was so slow that it was unusable. I fixed this last time. But, I totally forgot what it was.

Within the last week or so, I got emails from both MXNA and Full As A Goog, both accepting my blog for aggregation. So, this is a quick "Hello" to any new readers. Thank you for stopping by! Come back soon!

Wow! I'm home from cf.Objective() 2007. That is one fantastic conference. If you can't get your fix of enterprise level topics and valuable networking there, then I don't know what's wrong with you. The sessions were great. Here is a handy link to all my session posts. And I got to meet and even hang out with some of the absolute rock-stars of the ColdFusion community. All of them are very warm, friendly people too. I got to thank Ray, in person, for BlogCFC.

Good news. Adobe hearing from customers that they are feeling confident with CF and happy with the direction. Developer Productivity: CF has been, and continues to be, way ahead of anything in the space in ease of implementation. What other technology has the ease of cfquery -> cfoutput. Integration: Again, CF has had this going for it for several versions. ColdFusion 8 just adds even more points of integration. (A lot of it!) AJAX Support: Makes consuming CFCs for AJAX clients super easy.

I attended Kelly's session. However, I am going to leave my notes from the session un-published. I'm sorry, but this topic is so loaded and unique to each companies situation (one of the points he made). I'm afraid someone would change some setting I mention and break their server. However it is a topic worth looking into on your own. And when the Scorpio server monitoring stuff comes out, it will definitely be helpful in seeing what settings may need tweaking.