I’ve been messing around with displaying ads on the site recently. I have no hopes of getting rich - just curious how they work and wanted to test out the various services available. If ads would cover my hosting costs I’d be happy.
Currently I have a few Google AdSense things running. These [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Text Link Ads - Warning
July 19, 2007 – 9:03 am
The Story or Rush’s Red Barchetta
July 18, 2007 – 8:36 am
This is so cool. Are you a Rush fan? Like Red Barchetta?
This story was recently posted on one of the BMW (motorcycle) forums and is the tale of how Red Barchetta came about. There is more on Neil’s site as well.
How cool would it be to go riding with Neil Peart? [...]
Ride To Work Day - July 18
July 17, 2007 – 2:00 pm
To quote the immortal Freddie Mercury… “Get on your bikes and ride!”
Tomorrow is the 16th Annual Ride To Work Day!!
Ride To Work advocates and supports the use of motorcycles and scooters for transportation, and provides information about transportation riding to the public.
I’ll be riding tomorrow (I usually ride every day!) to promote:
The number of motorcyclists [...]
TACFUG - Ant Presentation - July 24th
July 16, 2007 – 1:19 pm
I’ll presenting ANT at the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group (TACFUG) Tuesday, July 24th at 6:30pm.
I’ll be going over the basics of setting up simple Ant tasks that can help streamline our everyday development tasks:
Interacting with Subversion
Modify files
Sending email
Moving files / sync
Zip
Interact with database (Oracle)
StatSVN http://www.statsvn.org/
Location: Rudinos - RTP - (Miami Blvd/I-40)
R.S.V.P. for [...]
XPather - Firefox Extension
July 13, 2007 – 9:53 am
Twice now in recent weeks I’ve run into Xpaths.
XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language for addressing portions of an XML document, or for computing values (strings, numbers, or boolean values) based on the content of an XML document.
Last night I was reading my new jQuery book and discovered how you could reference elements [...]
5 Minute jQuery Book Review
July 13, 2007 – 9:06 am
Last night when I got home there was a package on the front porch - my jQuery book! I’m on the jQuery mailing list and when they announced someone was working on a book I went ahead and pre-ordered even though I usually like to preview technical books before making any decisions.
Book:
Learning jQuery : [...]
Les Paul on PBS
July 11, 2007 – 10:13 pm
Les Paul is on PBS tonight - featured on the American Masters.
If you like guitar - you must watch! His influence on the modern guitar and multi-track recording is inspiring.
And best of all - he’s 90 and still jams.
New Docked Views Toolbars in CFEclipse
July 11, 2007 – 8:49 am
I recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.3 and the latest release of CFEclipse and noticed when I have my editor window maximized you can now access other views via new toolbars which are docked (you can move these around). So if you are coding and need to hit the dictionary - you can click [...]