I made an impulse buy this past week ordering a Tripp-Lite clip-on webcam for my laptop. My wife and I are leaving next weekend to go on a week-long cruise without our kids, and I thought it might be fun to post some video blog entries for them while we are gone so they (and ultimately you as well) can see what we are up to.

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At last night's DFW ColdFusion User Group meeting, Tom Woestman shared an interesting project that he is working on in which he has basically integrated CFCUnit with Selnium to perform both component level testing and clientside testing at the same time in a single suite.  I admittedly  had a hard time grasping this a bit at first as I have always considered CFCUnit tests to be a completely different category than clientside browser testing.

I don't know how pervasive this point of confusion is, but today a regular face in the ColdFusion community was making some remarks in this comment thread and further on his InstantSpot site that InstantSpot is not a ColdFusion-based application, with the insinuation that he won't support our efforts because of this. Just to be clear, no matter whether or not you actually see ".cfm" in the URL, we are running InstantSpot on Adobe ColdFusion 8, using Mach-II 1.

If anyone is interested in creating an InstantSpot blog, we are opening up 5 new Spots today and would love to see some more ColdFusion peeps! Enter your invitation code on the main page. As soon as someone uses a code it's gone: k7Nh92Sw GEAGGH7B rs4DPq9a OUWKCEgG lepvefKv Get 'em while their hot! :) EDIT: All gone!

Here is a little free advice to those running for office this election year, considering the fact that you have no idea what normal people do or what makes them tick. People don't like spam. In fact, there are billions of dollars spent every year to stop people from sending unsolicited email to people that are not interested in buying (or buying into!) services. You have become part of the problem by sending me emails telling me about your "solutions".

I have a new addiction playing with the style editor for my blog... I hate to call this a steampunk theme, simply for the inevitable flow of hardcore steampunk people coming here and telling me about how I don't know what steampunk is... so let's settle for pseudo steampunk shall we?  Regardless, at my current rate I will change it again in a few days anyway! :) I was also told this week that I look a lot different in my picture than I do in person.

Last night was the kickoff meeting for D-Flex which is the Dallas Flex User Group. This meeting was planned in conjunction with the Flex 3 Launch and featured a presentation by local Flex guru Mark Pillar, of Midnight Coders, Inc who delivered a presentation that was created by Adobe. As he went through the presentation, I took some very high level notes in bullet point format.

Before continuing, I am aware that the likelihood of this every happing is remote at best, but that won't keep me from dreaming. If I could choose 1 thing - just 1! - for ColdFusion 9, it would have nothing at all to do with new features. In fact, it would actually mean less features in way. What is this wish?

I am currently using the Alpha 3 release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.  Considering the fact that it is an alpha release, I tend to not get worked up over little errors that might occur.  However, I have found one that I just couldn't get around.  I use Aqua Data Studio for my database client and since loading Hardy Heron, I have been unable to run it. When I would start it from a terminal, I would get a dump that looked like this:#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.