Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
As you can see (unless you’re here using a screenreader or RSS feed), I’ve finally gotten a few minutes to play around with putting a new design on my blog. I grabbed a design from the Open Source Web Development site that was done by Tri-Star Web Design that I really like. At the same … Read more
I’ve been in Charlotte, NC this week for my “day” job and have been working on a side project from the hotel that involves converting a large amount of data from a, let’s just say, “non-standard” database program to MySQL. One of the tables stores information about 14,000+ legal documents that we have in PDF … Read more
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 been bugging me is the process that I have to go to every time I … Read more
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 the coolest Christmas present any of us give or get this year. The interesting part … Read more
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 (almost) completely unplugged from work was even better. The last few weeks before Thanksgiving have … Read more
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 had a lot of chance to post lately. I’m just about to head to the … Read more
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 without pay at this point. Ben Forta posted an entry to his blog yesterday saying … Read more
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 over one of the teams in his fantasy football league. I agreed to take over … Read more
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 wife and 3 kids have been here with me. My wife homeschools our twin 9-year-old … Read more
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 begun using the cfcUnit testing framework in a project I’m working on. I have to … Read more