News by Derek Perez

Why Cant Twitter Keep Their AIM Bot Alive?!

8 Apr 11:14
IMified doesn’t seem to have the same problems that Twitter IM gateway seems to have, could it have anything at all to do with their backend technology choices? I am not sure at this point, it seems that now they’ve switch to activebuddy for managing their IM gateway, I do not no much about [...

Bay Area, Ben Forta Is Coming. Are You Ready For Scorpio?

7 Apr 01:07
Thats right, its that time again. Mr. Ben Forta is coming to the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group to give us a taste of the future of ColdFusion: Scorpio. If you are in the area, be sure to attend, this meeting should not be missed! The meeting will be held [...

Roomba. Coolest Invention Ever?

3 Apr 09:07
YES, yes it is. I just picked up a new Roomba Discovery 4210 (his name is Roomberto) from my local Fry’s and this is by far the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Its learning the geography of my apartment and doing a terrific job of cleaning up the place! My cat also [...

Victory over Cingular! Blackberry Modem Over Bluetooth (for real this time)

30 Mar 03:05
Ken Hanscom Has provided a fantastic walkthrough that finally got my blackberry to sync and connect via modem ALL THROUGH THE MICROSOFT BLUETOOTH STACK!! They said it couldn’t be done, they said we were crazy…we proved them wrong..Okay, maybe no one said I was crazy (yet), but this is fantastic! I’d like to say a [...

Is EVERY Domain Name Taken!?

29 Mar 01:45
I have spent the past few weeks trying to find available domain names for different projects and I have come to the conclusion that there are no names left. Are we really going to turn the internet into a virtual real estate market? People are reaming each other for these names (I heard that vi.com [...

Apollo. Wow.

24 Mar 02:39
Apollo is pretty fantastic! I finally got the bits from labs on my box and I was able to make a quick hello world in seconds. In my opinion, what is going to make apollo so great is that it is based off of the original MXML/as3 language that so many flex developers know and [...

My E-Mail is Down

22 Mar 00:55
Sorry folks! my (personal) e-mail address is sorta in limbo, we have upgraded the servers to MS Exchange 2007, and so its going to take some time for my mx records to propagate out. I apologize if I don’t respond to e-mails in a timely fashion, if I don’t respond within a week, please resend [...

Apollo Alpha Bits Now Available on Adobe Labs!!

19 Mar 14:07
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/ Exciting! Apollo has recently just been made available to the public via adobe labs! “Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications  network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach  with the strengths of desktop applications  application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, [...

Blackberry and GRPS via bluetooth followup

19 Mar 05:00
So I made an interesting discovery, if you notice from my last blog post…on step one, I mention that I am using the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack, and that is what makes ALL the difference somehow. I contacted support because I could not get the bluetooth synch functionality to work properly even though my device was [...

GRPS via Bluetooth on the BlackBerry 8800

18 Mar 04:47
Just recently I purchased a new BlackBerry 8880 from Cingular Wireless. I was rather excited about having a new smartphone and being able to use it as a wireless modem so that I could easily access all my files and VPN stuff from the train or an area with no wifi coverage, etc. First off [...
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