What Nashville Songwriters do when they are bored

They write rap songs!
This forwarded to me by a guy who works in the music industry around here. This is 2 country writers that got bored in the studio.

I heart Nashville

DreamHost has a $7.5 mil bad day

DreamHost had a $7.5 mil bug in a cleanup routine the other day that went ahead and charged everyone as if it was 12/31/2008. I couldn’t imagine the stomach sinking that would go on when you realize that as a developer.
You can read about it at their blog
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/

StumbleUpon Rocks!

I just logged in to my site stats and noticed a HUGE increase in visitors today. It looks like someone “stumbled” my site on StumbleUpon and I have seen an increase in traffic of 640%!
Wow!

MikeHuckabee.com uses CF/Fusebox

So I don’t know if it would actually make me vote for him, or change political party affiliations but, according to David Fekke, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is using ColdFusion and Fusebox on his website. As a fusebox developer I think this is awesome.
It will be interesting to see that if he gets the republican [...]

It’s all about the interfaces baby!: When not to use Ajax

A thread was started in CF-Community about what websites are usefully implementing Web 2.0 technologies for the betterment of the UI. One that was mentioned was Netflix and the way that the UI responds to the user in a positive way.

One of the things we have to remember in UI development is that just because [...]

What I Got for Christmas

When you have young kids you find yourself spending your whole Christmas budget on them and forget that the parents need to buy gifts for each other. Because of that my wife and I decided this year that we would spend a total of $100 between the 2 of us which means we both got [...]

Forta Coming to Nashville talking about Flex 3 and Air

Guess we impressed Adobe with our turn out back in May for the Scorpio Tour with Ben Forta that they have chosen us to host a Flex event. The 615Flex usergroup is sponsoring the event and will be held over at the DealerSkins offices on Jan. 24th, 2008. To get the skinny go here:
http://www.615flex.com/special-events/
FYI You [...]

Ask a Ninja: Rewriting URLs strictly in ColdFusion

This was recently emailed into me:
Thomas wrote:
Could you help me with a SEO Url rewrite that I can plug into my
Application.cfm.. I don’t want to have to use an IISrewrite..
Does any code come to mind.. I’ve been searching and I can’t find anything
without haveing to use some sort of redirect.
Thanks for the help
As a [...]

MacBook or MacBook Pro?… That is the question

So I am about ready to replace my Dell D400 laptop. I love this laptop but it is 4 years old and needs to be replaced ASAP before it dies a death and leaves me without a work machine.
I told myself that my next laptop would be a Mac and I don’t know if I [...]

Happy New Year!

As 2008 ramps back up I should get back into the blogging swing of things. I am also ‘resoluting’ to lose about 100 lbs this year and to get out of debt… shouldn’t be too hard!