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Interesting Directions

By barneyb on April 4, 2007

I accidentally fat fingered an address in Google Maps and got this set of directions.  Pay particular attention to segment 16.

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Chris Phillips is Blogging

By barneyb on April 1, 2007

Chris Phillips (another Portland CFer) is finally blogging, which is good, because we need more tall skinny guys in the blogosphere.

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I was Interviewed!

By barneyb on March 30, 2007

cfframeworks.com did an interview with me last month on (surprise) ColdFusion frameworks, and they've just published it.

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Windows Strikes Again

By barneyb on March 19, 2007

So I just got a new HP Pavilion laptop, running Vista.  First thing to do out of the box (after waiting the 15 minutes for Windows to start the first time) was connect to the network.  No dice.  Tried everything I could think of.  Guess what fixed it.
Reboot!
Glad to know I won't have to learn [...]

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ELinks: Text-Mode Superstar

By barneyb on March 9, 2007

If you use a terminal, you owe it to yourself to check out ELinks. It's a text-mode web browser, but it's got CSS, frames, tables, mouse (including scroll wheel), tabs, bookmarks, etc.  I spend a lot of time SSHed into remote boxes, and having a local browser makes things so much easier.  Windowed would be [...]

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Great Video

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Not work safe (unless you've got headphones), but a great video none the less.  Very creative.

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TurboTax Browser Validation

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

I've used TurboTax Online to do my taxes for a number of years now, and quite like it.  This year, I noticed one really well-designed feature: browser validation.
If you've never used the app, the client side is a very js/css/remoting heavy HTML interface.  It's probably the best RIAs I've used, and it's been of that [...]

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cf.objective 2007 Session Listing

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Jared has posted a partial cf.objective 2007 session listing on the conference site.

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Ajax (sigh) Pet Peeve

By barneyb on February 16, 2007

I've finally given up and added 'ajax' to my vocabulary as a synonym for "JS remoting".  But I've got a bone to pick with people building ajax apps: neat UI trickery has to leave the UI in a consistent state or you're making the UI worse instead of better.
The particular example that is continually annoying [...]

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WordPress Upgrade

By barneyb on February 11, 2007

Just applied WordPress 2.1 to the blog, with basically no issues, which is awesome.  Also, as you can see, I've switched to a Mollio-based layout, rather than the WordPress-specific on that I was using before.  That'll let me skin the site (along with the various other ones I multi-host) with just CSS, rather than having [...]

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