• Apple Announces Release Date for Leopard

    Apple announced this morning that the new version of OS X (Leopard) will be released on October 26th at 6:00pm.  I for one can’t wait to get my hands on the new version (so much so that I’m pre-ordering the…

  • I’m Certified (or is that certifiable?)!

    After an excrutiatingly long wait, I can finally now call myself an Adobe Certified Instructor.  In July I took and passed the Adobe Certified Instructor stand-up exam for LiveCycle 8.0 ES. For a number of reasons, just this weekend I…

  • Disabling CF8 Auto-Start on the Mac

    I installed the ColdFusion 8 developer edition a few weeks ago on my MacBook Pro.  I installed it as a multi-server installation pretty similar to the recommended way for installing CFMX 7.  One of the differences with the installer is…

  • Don’t You Love Those ‘Lightbulb’ Moments?

    You ever had one of those ‘light-bulb’ moments?  I love when those come along because it usually means that something ‘clicks’ that I’ve been noodling on.  Today was one of those days. The last 3 weeks, I have been working…

  • Learn Something New Every Day!

    For you Mac gurus out there, this is going to sound like child’s play.  I finally took the time to figure out today how to change an icon for a particular folder (applications and files work the same way) to…

  • Deploy LiveCycle Data Services 2.5 on JRun

    I’ve been in Newton, MA (just outside Boston) all this week taking a couple of Flex 2 classes at the Adobe offices here.  Starting tomorrow (Thursday) we’re beginning the 2-day class called Flex 2: Data and Communications.  One of the…

  • Transformers…More Than Meets the Eye!

    As part of my birthday celebrations yesterday, we dropped our kids off at my sister’s house and went to see the new movie Transformers. My sister and her husband had seen it a couple of days earlier.  I’ll quote my…

  • Another Year Gone By

    Yep…for me another year is in the books.  Today is my 36th birthday.  We are celebrating as we have so many times before with a combined birthday get-together with my family. My sister’s birthday is July 8 (no, we weren’t…

Dan

Geek, Tinkerer, Creator

I’m Dan. An ambivert by nature, geek by divine calling, husband to a wonderful woman, and father to three amazing kiddos. I enjoy tinkering with all sorts of automation, self-hosting / home labs, and creating stuff with lasers and 3D printers in our “maker space” with my children.

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