Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Business of Life

Posted on February 23, 2009 | Leave a comment

My childhood friend Doug, has had a newsletter for sometime, and now has launched a website. The Business of Life is his new venutre, and I wish him the utmost luck!

Take a look, he’s got good stuff to say.

Good luck my friend.

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Microsoft taking a lesson from Wal-Mart.

Posted on February 20, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’d say the end is nigh, but for Microsoft to be hiring a Wal-Mart exec to manage their (third? second?) retail store, the end is about 100 yeards back there some where.

I gotta say, Microsoft’s problems are many, and large, and it’s sad that they’re going down a path of copying Apple (poorly), rather than actually working to fix the problems. Dell and Gateway both thought (to their own detriment) that a retail store was the savior of their business. Now it seems Microsoft is doing the same.

PC makers, Microsoft, listen to us, we’re mac people. IT’S NOT THE STORE.

It’s the entire package.

It’s the OS that wasn’t a shitty re-write of System 7,8 or 9

It’s the hardware that isn’t plastic, that feels sturdy in your hand.

It’s the genius bar that will help my mom eject a DVD and help me troubleshoot a faulty Wireless card.

Throwing open a store front to sell Office 2009, Windows 7, and a bunch of lame keyboards and mice, NOT THE SOLUTION.

Oh and hiring someone from Wal-Mart? Really? Is that the image Microsoft wants? Low quality low price leader? Vlasic pickles in 2 gallon jars? Failed MP3 store?

Microsoft has officially jumped the shark I’m afraid.

Windows 7 looks nice, i’ll admit, I played with the beta a bit, but really, Microsoft needs to follow Apple’s lead. START OVER. Sure Apple didn’t start from scratch, Microsoft doesn’t have to either, buy some one else, some one with a better product (that would be anyone), make it Windows X or something.

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360Coldfusion, very interesting

Posted on February 19, 2009 | Leave a comment

Tom and I thought about doing a CF conference, after I think 360|Flex Seattle. The reason we never went forward with the ideas was CFUnited and CF.Objective().

I’ve thougt CFUnited was over priced and didn’t really offer enough to be worth the price, since I attended in 2005. I’ve never attended CF.Objective(), since by the time it got started up, I was moving into Flex development, but since it bills itself as the Enterprise CF Conference, I found it odd that it was dribbling extra technologies, moving away from CF.

All that said, we thought the CF Community was happy with it’s options. I think we might have been wrong. We got a DM the other day, “any chance we can see 360|ColdFusion?  the existing conferences are a big bag of suck”

To make sure that wasn’t a single sentiment we through out a simple survey, which is still open, but as of the writing of this 86% those who’ve responded would like to see a 360|CF event.

I think a 360|CF would be hella fun! I love CF, and when the need arises for back end stuff for 360Conferences, it’s CF. Tom and I met each other as CF Developers at Ameriquest Mortgage, and we definitely still love the technology.

We’re not rushing into anything, ’09 has seen us add 360|iDev, to our line up, but if the community is interested in a 360|CF, we’d love to get involved!

I wonder if the CF Community would know what to do with a conference that was 3-4 days, and cost drastically less than the alternatives… mmmm.

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Ignite Denver 2 Don’t miss it!

Posted on February 18, 2009 | Leave a comment

360|iDev is in a week and a half and then…. IGNITE DENVER!

It’s gonna be cool! We’ve got some cool submissions for topics! Learn to fly, Why you suck at driving, RJ is gonna try to do the history of Rome in 5 minutes again, and Dude where’s my solar powered car?

I’m glad to be back in the Ignite Saddle! It’s been too long, and Denver needs some more Ignite love! The Denver Tech community needs to show Boulder we’ve got interesting things to talk about too :)

Make sure to register, Forest Room 5 isn’t very big, and space is limited! We’re going smallish to get back in the saddle, but make no mistake, I’m not lapsing this time! Ignite Denver is a staple!

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