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Eclipse/Ant/MySQL Goodness
I’ve spent several hours this past weekend working on a project for a client that uses a MySQL database backend. It involves converting thousands of records from XML files exported from the legacy data system. One of the things that’s…
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Starting Christmas Early
I got home from this week’s trip to a client’s site early (earlier than planned originally, and WAY early in the morning). After a few hours of near-death rest, the kids and I opened up and configured what may be…
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Party’s Over…Back to Work
The Thanksgiving holiday is quickly coming to an end. I’ll have to say that working from home the 3 days before Thanksgiving was a very nice break after travelling for 9 straight weeks and having a 4-day weekend where I…
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I’m Back from Stealth Mode
It’s been a while since I posted an entry. The end of the month is a very busy time for us as we try to tie up loose ends as the invoicing cycle comes to a close so I’ve not…
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Adobe MAX Kicks Off Today
Adobe MAX officially began today–sadly without me this year. This year marks only the second time since I started going to the event (then called DevCon) in 2000. Alas, having recently become completely self-employed, I couldn’t justify taking a week…
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Story Behind the Title
Note At the time this post was written, the title of the blog was “Dan’s Drivelings” The thought occurred to me that I should probably explain how my blog got it’s title. Last year my brother-in-law needed someone to take…
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Working Vacation Comes to an End
As I mentioned when I started this blog, I’ve taken a new job that requires me to travel to a client’s site each week and am currently working on a project outside Washington, DC. For the last 2 weeks, my…
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks….
The last few months I’ve been spending some time trying to get my head around some of the different ColdFusion frameworks that are floating around these days. I’ve been playing with ModelGlue:Unity (which includes ColdSpring and Reactor) and have recently…
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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