I don’t know but I used to love 60 Minutes… but now I just get angry at it. They are up to their old tricks again with an installment this last Sunday called “High Tech Heist”. It is scaretactic-reporting at its best worst. It is suppose to be about the TJMaxx data breach from a few years back but all they really did was to tell you that:

a. Every bad guy can IM someone and buy your personal information

b. Wally World knows your SSN

c. WEP is of the devil

What!? Yeah it was a bunch of oldpeopletechnobabble that didn’t make much sense at all. They get some wannabe geeks to run a sniffer and call them a hacker and then throw in a professor and an FBI agent who can use Yahoo IM and you have the makings of a crapload of geezer reporting.

See if for yourself

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3538299n

So I was taking a stroll down memory lane and was wondering if one of my old websites was still around. Sure enough it is and has been bought by Salem Publishing!

I started CMcentral.com with a buddy of mine Jesse that I met over the Internet back in 1999. He had started a website called ChristianBandList.com and wanted to move it into more of a community feel. This project is held dear to my heart because it was the first place I learned ColdFusion. We wanted to have an artist database and we figured it had to be easier then creating individual static pages for each artist. We saw that our web host offered ColdFusion 4.0 so we dove right in. I got a CFWACK and off I went.

After about 2 years of making no money on it and the hopes and dreams of getting bought out by a huge company like MusicForce.com or Gaylord getting sqaushed due to the dot com bust I eventually dropped off and he sold it to a guy here in Nashville who I guess then sold it to Salem.

ahhhhh the memories.

Sometimes we as developers wonder if all our hard work to push the tech world along in advances of technology. There are times when I say “Heck Ya!” all my hard work is paying off…

In the life of a blogger you live and die by your RSS subscriptions. They are the life-blood of what we do. We create content on a daily or weekly basis and if nobody knows about the fresh content we are just writing for the Google Bots.

In Walks RSS Hugger

RSS Hugger is a service by the maker of WordHugger, the Internet micro-investment site. It touts itself as the service that will bring readers and bloggers together. As a human approved directory you are guaranteed to have quality blogs and not have to weed through spam like so many other directories. Currently only serving up 57 RSS Feeds it proves to be a great service that will uncover some of the hidden gems of the web.

I use FeedBurner to manage my RSS feeds and it gives me great information as to how many people are subscribed to my RSS feeds and how many people are reading them. I just noticed that the Pro features are now FREE! That’s right, if you are a blogger and you use feedburner just go into your account and you can activate the Pro features for free!

the Twitter Blog has something posted that I thought was a nice in site.

“For stressed engineers, it’s tempting to think that another solution - anything but what you’re using now! - will solve all your problems. Maybe you start dreaming up the perfect framework on a whiteboard, or maybe you start scouring the web for the fastest, newest, most experimental technology. In the long run, picking a foundation you’re comfortable with and making sensible iterations towards your performance goals will yield a bigger win. You have to be careful while iterating: watch your database, test thoroughly, and be ready to roll back when things break (and they will).”

ColdFusion has suffered from this. Since it’s ease of use invites users to create applications that may not be the best methodologies means that sometimes legacy apps can be crap. I look at some of the stuff I wrote 8 years ago and Good Lord it makes me cringe.

Though they are talking about Ruby and the Rails framework I think that it applies to just about any language. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and in the end will probably serve about 90% of all your needs with the other 10% just being a rethink of the way you do things.

 I think that if more people concentrated on making their apps better then complaining and wanting to move to the “New Kid On the Block” that their programming life would be a LOT less stressful.

Now we know!