On the most recent release of InstantSpot, we added in XMLRPC support so that blog administration can happen anywhere, using any client that supports XMLRPC. We are thinking it might be fun to create an AIR app for this purpose down the line (or better yet... someone else! hint...hint...), but until that time, there are a variety of clients that can be used, since we followed the MetaWeblog API standards.

InstantSpot moved to ColdFusion 8 last week after discovering huge threading problems using Railo.

Seeing as it has been a few months since I tried out a new distro, I got a wild hair today and decided to give PCLinuxOS (Gnome version) a shot.  The way that I keep my drives partitioned - specifically keeping my /home directory as a separate partition- swapping distros is usually a pretty painless endeavor and I can be back up and running within an our or so, with all my old apps in place and with all my preferences still in tact.

Warning.... there is coarse language in this video, but it is hilarious and well done!

Mike Kollen asked if I would be willing to do a Webex presentation about Mach-II to a group he is teaching at Boeing. Specifically he was interested in the presentation that I gave to the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group earlier this month that covered the steps it takes to add simple user authentication into a Mach-II application. I also covered the features that have been added with the 1.5/1.6 releases.

I have now been using Ubuntu for about 2 years, and oddly enough one thing that has always evaded me is how to properly set up the JRE plugin in Firefox. It *seems* like that ought to be an easy process, but it is one of those annoying little things that just hasn't worked for me, although it has never been important enough for me to chase down. Yesterday I had to do a Webex presentation that required the JRE plugin, so I decided it was time to hack my way through it.

Somehow I totally missed this entry when Aaron posted it until he mentioned it on the Mach-II email list today. He has written a really nice and very detailed blog entry on how to configure your application to use SES URLs with by using mod_rewrite in Apache, and then goes on to show how the flow continues to his Mach-II application. We took some similar approaches with the URLs you see here on InstantSpot.

My wife and I are headed off on a cruise the first week of March. Both of us decided that we had been a bit lazy and let some extra pounds creep up, and that the cruise was a good excuse to get back to where we need to be. I decided to set my goal at dropping from 217 to 185 for a total of 32 pounds, knowing that if I ever saw 190 I would be pretty happy. Today is 5 weeks into our efforts and I have dropped 25 pounds as I saw 192 for the first time in a LONG time on the scale this morning.

This afternoon, my Evolution email client started popping up an error message "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync" as I would enter the various folders. I finally figured out a fix and everything is back to normal. If you ever get this error, the following steps solved my problem. First, close Evolution. Then run the following:$ cd ~/.evolution/mail $ cp -r local local.BAK $ cd local $ rm Inbox.ibex.index Inbox.ibex.index.data Now reopen Evolution and you should be good.

Example of using OnSessionEnd to do cleanup processes whether a User actively logs out or times out.