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A couple French websites talked about Where's Tim today. After translating them to English, I was a bit surprised to read the negative/paranoid connotation of the comments. Maybe the intent was lost in translation, but one guy mentioned radio controlled missiles and burglary. Translations here, here and here to see comments. I have not been to France or hung out with anyone that has spent an extended time in France. That being said, I wonder if something about the French culture or government spawns...
David, Steve and everybody else involved did a great job in putting this event together and keeping the chaos at an organized level!! My talk on AJAXPro went really well. 25 or so people showed up and everybody seemed to understand the power of AJAXPro and several of them told me afterwards that they had projects that could use this technology right now. I've talked before about why AJAXPro is better than XMLHttpRequest. It also had advantages over ATLAS (Microsoft's AJAX library) in that AJAXPro...
We are hanging out at Chris Williams's coffee / game / wifi shop, Reality Check here in Greenville. Jeff, John and I are doing some last minute polishing up of our talks for tomorrow's CodeCamp. Dru and Joseph are getting ready to do a podcast with Chris. The Where's Tim / PodcastStudio.net mashup has been quite a success!! The guy that traded a red paper clip for a house sent me an email talking about how he liked the technology and wants to use GPS on his future adventures. Very cool!! I also did...
Last night, I attended the Lawrence Technology Association mixer at Netopia here in Lawrence. Ends up that Netopia does a lot more than the broadband services that I blogged about yesterday. I ended up chatting with Sam Snyder and Jesse Stanely, two QA guys and they gave me a couple of live demos of their products. One was Timbukto, a remote desktop application that works on Mac and PC. The other one was an end to end solution for tech support. It's called eCare and it rocks! A client submits a ticket...
Clint Batman from ThinkGeo gave a great demo of his GPS software at the May Mixer at the Lawrence Regional Technology Center last night. They have a web based tracking system built in .NET similar to Where's Tim. They have some features that we don't, and they have a few things that they do better than us. We also have some features that they don't, like RSS feeds, mobile version, ASMX interface to our data, and WeatherBug integration. Hey Clint, give me a call sometime and we can sit down and see...
Matt Croydon blogged yesterday about Where's Tim. He got a new bluetooth GPS device. Turns out he is from Lawrence and is a programmer for LJWorld.com. He did the whatchamacallit thing a couple weeks ago as well as some other Google Map integration. I posted a comment on his blog that we should do lunch sometime. Maybe we can get them to create a Google Map of all the technology companies in Lawrence (there is two just in this building). [Google Maps] [Where's Tim] [Lawrence, KS]...
One of our servers went down today. It's been on its way out for a while and today it just would not boot up. It keep blue screening at startup. I tried Knoppix like Jeff talked about earlier, but that didn't work for me. So I stuck the hard drive in my other desktop and after many bad sectors in scan disk, the computer booted up. When I tried to open the drive in explorer, it would say "F:\ is not accessible. Error performing inpage operation". So I called Alex over at One Stop Technology Solutions...
It's good to see positive press about GPS. This is from the Lawrence, KS news release a couple days ago: (LAWRENCE, Ks) Last month, a ten year old granddaughter used a cell phone to call for help. Using the enhanced 911 system, the ability for dispatch to locate cell phone callers, emergency crews were able to respond and treat an unconscious grandmother. Kennedy Fasching, from Lenexa, was visiting her grandmothers new house for the third time. Kennedys grandma, a diabetic, lost consciousness leaving...
Sahil Malik reenforces what I have been telling Kyle (my boss) for years. 20% of my time should be spent doing research. For me this includes reading blogs about technology, creating test apps using new technology and reading books.I am constantly finding new ways to do things and as time permits, I go into our old code and refactor it to make it faster and more efficient. This makes me a stronger asset to EnGraph, makes our applications better and keeps the daily 9-6 fun for me...
I just finished talking with Jeff and John from PodcastStudio.net. We had a great talk about Where's Tim, GPS technology moving forward, consumer adaptation, the negative misconceptions of GPS, how the web is opening up with API's and web services, and good old fashioned geek stuff in general. Jeff talked a little about it earlier. He might have it up tonight, so make sure to subscribe to their feed. Technorati Tags: Google Maps, Where's Tim, ASMX, AJAX, Podcast...
Sahil Malik talks about the biggest lies in the tech industry My favorite: .NET is better than Java/Java is better than .NET/We should switch to <XX> to make our development better. Okay, I don't care who you are - you don't know enough to make that call. I've been a hardcore MS Developer for about 10 years now (not counting paid college and school work), I have worked with MS technologies from Borland Turbo C, to .NET, and whenever I read a book I discover something new about MS Technology....
Local computer search engine...blinkx. So far it seems cool and functional. Its still in beta. Business 2.0 had an article last month about Google, MSN and Yahoo coming out with similar technology soon
I attended the Lawrence Technology Association meeting today. Our company presented a session on what we do, and another Lawrence company presented some bio-tech info. I was able to sit next to one of the developers from Sprint who told me about their plans to roll out a service that would be able to hand off data and voice calls between PCS and 802.11. That would be nice for people like me that have poor cell coverage in my house and a wireless network...