If you are a ColdFusion developer by now you MUST have heard of Ruby on Rails. (Unless you’re the 2.0382 % of the CFdevers who haven’t – shame, shame.) There’s even been some much heated discussion from some CF developers (here too) who have even argued that ROR is so much better than CF that they were actually making a switch. So considering this YOU KNEW that there was going to be some...

The future of storage media is around the corner. Maxell is on track to create what could possibly revolutionize the way we store data forever — holographic disk storage! They plan on (shipping late 2006) initially offering removable hardware units pushing storage on 300 GB media, transferring at 20 MBps. Eventually, the media will be able to push 120 MBps on 1.6 TB media. HVD — Holographic Versatile...

Yes, the official drink of Macromedia is (drum roll please) …DreamWeaver! (What were you expecting me to say?) Yes, believe it or not, there is a beer by such a name. It’s bottled by the Troegs Independent Craft Brewery in Harrisburg, PA. There is only a 3 hour driving radius distribution so in order to get your share a road trip may be in order. I came across this by way of the CP Multimedia Users...

In the light of the Adobe buyout of Macromedia, I’ve heard that part of the rationale of this endeavor may in fact have been to prevent Microsoft from buying out Macromedia and then doing something really scary like … I won’t go there. Needless to say MS has had a few apps up their sleeves to really make you wonder what’s been going on over the past year. They’re encapsulated in...

Whew … I’ve got to admit that out of all the programming workshops and training events I’ve been to this has HANDS DOWN got to be one of the most intensive courses I’ve ever been a part of (yes, I know I’ve ended a sentence with a preposition)! The course instructor Aaron Hillegas is the author of the book Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX (undoubtedly THE resource for learning Cocoa...

You’ve heard the announcement from last June’s Apple World Wide Developers Conference (I was there, baby!) that Apple is now powering it’s systems with Intel Processors. With the onset of that announcement many developers (including myself) have speculated that this opens a great door for allowing Apple software on PC based boxes. (Yes, I know Steve Jobs and the Apple team may not necessarily...

Many folks may have an MP3 Player (you know, like an IPOD) of some sorts. But what do you do if you work in an environment like my wife where you can’t install applications, hook up your own mp3 player, or download music to your computer? Or what if you want to just listen to random/genred/similiar artist "style" music lists continuously FOR FREE? Well, you go to Pandora.com. This has got...