ASP, CFML, PHP

Back in 1994 when I first started cranking out HTML using vi on a Unix box, it was all HTML. Then came javascript and DHTML. Then came server-side scripting. The first language I learned was the infamous Cold Fusion. Touted for having the lowest learning ramp, it was an ideal tool for learning to generate [...]

From ASP to PHP

I started my web development life with ColdFusion and CFML, then moved to ASP. I tried ASP.NET but one thing after another seemed to prevent me from jumping with both feet. Timing mostly. I had all the tools and a decent amount of training to make the jump, but the timing was always horrible. I [...]

Blah blah blah… cut cut cut…

That’s the script for the next movie from Microsoft Studios to be released as “The Story of Windows Server Longhorn: Vista Part 2.5″. According to several sources, including this post on BetaNews, Microsoft has once again begun the painful, embarrassing process of whitling down features in a yet-to-be-released product. We all remember things publicly promised [...]

A word of warning… Brain is Skattered tonight

I’m writing two project plans at once, answering a legal matter for my brother (yes, an attorney, I have to admit we have one in our family.  Don’t hate me), watching the O’s battling the Indians (2-2 in the bottom of the 9th), proofing a beta copy of a Microsoft product manual, listening to Bozzio/Levin/Stevens [...]

Web Apps Suck

I’m so sick of all the ill-informed opinions about Google Apps being the savior of the modern world.  As if it has 1/8th of the features and functionality of OpenOffice, let alone MS Office.  Not even close.  Not at all.  Some of the most basic features Lotus 123 had YEARS ago are missing.  If you’re [...]