Great video from the ever-funny Strongbad on what makes a death metal artist and video, and how to go about accomplishing your dreams of becoming a death metal band. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail141.html

I ran into an interesting problem tonight while working on one of my projects that just so happens to use a little bit of the ExtJs SDK. I had dropped an Ext.form.DateField onto a regular old HTML form for a bit of polish. When I started testing I began to...

So this is Wednesday night and my vacation week is half over. Here is the half-time report of what has transpired thus far. Monday we arrived a little after noon and headed down to “The Spot” for some grub. We dined up on the top deck overlooking the gulf, the...

Notice: Code is no longer here Although this has been done a million times I took a little time (wasting time mostly) to cook up a simple ColdFusion component that implements a basic soundex algorithm (see http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/SoundEx1/SoundEx1.htm for more info on the reference I used). The component provides a simple...

Here’s a great read on the use, or perhaps misuse, of the terms “Strategy” and “Tactics”. I found it to be a stimulating look at how the use of terms over time tends to define them, even if their definition is actually more diverse in practice. Anyway, take a look...

One of the things I’ve been struggling with at work lately is related to bizzare ColdFusion errors. Essentially what I am seeing is a page that normally works just suddenly throw an error stating that a specific variable cannot be accessed as an object because it is of type java.lang.String....

While working on my personal project tonight I finally got around to going over some of the new examples in the ExtJs documentation. In this case they are demonstrating having a form with a password field, and a confirmation password field, and how you can validate that the second password...

Today I learned that the North Texas Toll Authority, affectionately known as NTTA, has requested that the speed limits be raised by 10 miles per hour on our major toll road areas, including the North Dallas Tollway and the President George Bush Tollway. It appears that the NTTA has not...

Yes, I know. I seem to have a hard time sticking to one theme. It’s just what I do. More importantly, however, I’d like to announce that I am on the latest, greatest, WordPress 2.5! I’m not going to say too much, because you should probably check it out for...

For those that enjoy the features offered by the Yahoo! Widgets you might at some point find yourself in a situation similar to what I experienced today. Somehow, perhaps with my two monitor goodness, and goofing that up by logging into our VPN, I tried to open up the Converter...