As a few of you seemed to notice, I took little sabbatical from blogging around mid-summer. After going hard and heavy for a few years, and due to some circumstances that all seemed to converge at the same time, I felt like I didn't have any room left for sharing with anyone else! So, with that said, I am back in the swing of things and man, I have a hell of a list to catch up on. Some topics on the immediate horizon: Mach-II 1.6 is on the way... awesome new features!

This link came across the Adobe user group manager email list this afternoon and I wanted to share in case anyone had missed it.  Scale Nine has some really sweet looking themes.

Aaron and I are currently hard at work busting out the next version of InstantSpot which we hope to launch on our 1 year anniversary in September.  As part of this major rewrite, we decided it is time to have a complete redesign done of the main InstantSpot site at www.instantspot.com.   If you are interested, please contact us using this form.

In what we feel marks the beginning of the "second generation" of the Mach-II project, Team Mach-II has just announced that GreatBizTools has purchased the copyright from Ben Edwards, who along with Hal Helms, created the Mach-II framework. From the blog entry on the Team Mach-II blog: GBT's primary goal is to make the framework more transparent and open to the community of users.

In what we feel marks the beginning of the "second generation" of the Mach-II project, Team Mach-II has just announced that GreatBizTools has purchased the copyright from Ben Edwards, who along with Hal Helms, created the Mach-II framework. From the blog entry on the Team Mach-II blog: GBT's primary goal is to make the framework more transparent and open to the community of users.

Last night was the 5th stop in the on AIR Bus tour as the brought their traveling show to Big D. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, so I was glad to see this complete and detailed recap by DFWCFUG member Chris Jordan.   Thanks Chris!

After utterly butchering my online banking account today as I tried to have them set up access to both my personal account and business account through a single username - I am now completely locked out of both!

As posted on the Team Mach-II blog, we are interested in getting feedback from the Mach-II user community on the Beta1 release of Mach-II 1.5.   If you are using the beta and have any input to offer, please go check out this post.

As posted on the Team Mach-II blog, we are interested in getting feedback from the Mach-II user community on the Beta1 release of Mach-II 1.5.   If you are using the beta and have any input to offer, please go check out this post.

Last night I wrote a little application for recording CFUG meeting attendees. Someone on the Mach-II email list was asking for an example of code that would populate a select dropdown list with records retrieved from Gateway objects by way of a Service layer, and I offered this application as an example. If anyone is interested, the code can be downloaded at the link below and is bundled with both the Mach-II framework and ColdSpring.