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Organize Twitter Tweets with Yahoo Pipes

Twitter has been all the rage amongst web geeks for a few months now. But as the service starts to catch on with the general public, keeping up on all the Tweet messages can get a little crazy. It only gets crazier as you start following tweets from your coworkers, ColdFusion gurus, the Mac community, [...] (translate)

Flex 2 remote objects over SSL

A coworker of mine has been researching secure Flex 2 remote object calls to ColdFusion cfc’s over HTTPS. Seems simple enough, but anytime sensitive information is passed over the Internets I’d really like it to be bulletproof. Sure, I’m comfortable with HTTPS, but opening a flash swf over HTTP and trusting that it’s using HTTPS [...] (translate)

Picking a gadget/widget platform

There’s lots of ways right now to extend the web outside of a traditional web browser. Whether you call them gadgets or widgets, web-enabled desktop mini-apps can be a powerful way to bridge the divide between your users’ machines and your Internet applications. With all the gadget platforms out there, it can be tough to sift [...] (translate)

ColdFusion powered desktop gadgets

Desktop and dashboard gadgets are particularly useful when they pull in dynamic information from the web. ColdFusion can make it really easy to supply your gadgets with dynamic data. No matter what platform you choose — gadgets generally rely on HTML and scripting code just like any web page. You might be sneaky and squeeze some [...] (translate)

BarCamp Philly blew my mind

BarCamp Philly rocked this weekend. Somewhere around 200 people piled into the University of the Arts with amazing amounts of energy to share ideas on tech and community. I met a lot of great people from the local area that I hadn’t met before. There were people from all kinds of backgrounds: development, design, community [...] (translate)

BarCamp Philly

I’m really excited that Philly will host its first BarCamp “un”conference in just a few weeks. There’s a ton of energy around the event with lots of folks from different backgrounds signed up to attend. The planners have put together a great location for the day in classroom space at the University of the Arts [...] (translate)

Keep an Eye on Craigslist with Google Alerts

Craigslist is my goto site for second-hand gear. Concert tickets, computer hardware, gaming systems… No matter what I’m looking for I know eventually someone will put one up for sale. Scanning through endless listings of unrelated garbage though is boring. That’s why I use Google Alerts to do the boring work for me. Google Alerts keeps [...] (translate)

Combine Integrated Windows auth and anonymous access

One of the things I work on at Wharton is a student portal. The portal is a public web site but most features are protected by a web form log in. A common complaint from students is that they’re forced to log in to the web site after they’ve already logged into a school computer [...] (translate)

cf.Objective() Day 0

Not much to report yet. I flew into Minneapolis this afternoon, shuttled to hotel and checked in. The welcome reception was very friendly, a good chance to mingle and put some faces to the names in the ColdFusion community. I also got to meet a few new faces — I’m always happy to dish about CF. After [...] (translate)

Into the Wild, not exactly like Grizzly Man

I went into seeing Into the Wild convinced that the main character was a total idiot. The movie is based on the real life (and death) of Christopher McCandless. McCandless graduated from Emory in 1990 and traded in his life savings for a life wandering around the country on foot. He stopped along the way [...] (translate)

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