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May 2006 Entries

Wichita .NET Developer's Code Camp


I'm heading down to Wichita this weekend for the WichitaDevelopers.net Code Camp. I'm looking forward to Raymond Lewallen's talk on cache objects, I need to do that better in Where's Tim.

posted @ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:23 AM | Feedback (0) |


Funny comment from Smalltalk guy


I usually just skim through James Robertson's blog. He usually just rants about other bloggers and shamelessly plugs Smalltalk (which I can appreciate). But this morning, he had a pretty good one liner:

The pixels on my monitor nearly revolted...

Good stuff.

posted @ Friday, May 26, 2006 7:01 AM | Feedback (0) |


Kansas City .net User Group - May 2006


Jeff Julian and John Alexander were nice enough to let me speak about the AJAX.net library last night at the Kansas City .net User Group meeting. I've never spoken in front of that many people before, and it was quite an experience. I didn't do a very good job going over the concept or the history of AJAX, but Jeff was there to bail me out. Thanks Jeff!! I really appreciate the feedback that people left me and I look forward to giving this talk again at the South Carolina Code Camp.

I have a new found respect for people that give geek talks all the time!! The toughest part was know that some people were right there following the talk and understanding the concept, and that some of the people I had lost a step or two ago and were having a tough time putting it all together. I guess you'll never give a talk where everybody will be on the exact same page, I wonder how seasoned speakers get the slower ones up to speed while not boring the people that understand everything you talking about. I've been at plenty of talks when I was a little behind the speaker or didn't quite grasp the concept, and that is more frustrating that being bored because I already know what the speaker is talking about. So I guess I answered my own question. It's more important to go back to the basics of a talk if not everybody is ready to go to the next step.

I've posted some startup instructions on using AJAX.net and the code from the demos we went over last night. http://geekswithblogs.net/thibbard/articles/79447.aspx.

And then on the way home, I blew out a tire. I really enjoyed putting on a spare in my dress clothes while you crazy Kansas City drivers flew past me on 435!!

posted @ Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:52 PM | Feedback (2) |


Lawrence Technology Assosiation May Mixer


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 how we can make each others products better!!

posted @ Friday, May 19, 2006 7:15 AM | Feedback (3) | Filed Under [ EnGraph .NET GPS Where's Tim ]


Matt's back


Matt Strausz of SmartStart of Kansas got his blog rocking again. Check him out for your DUI information. He talks about getting it back and gave EnGraph the "small business of the day" award!!

posted @ Monday, May 15, 2006 12:07 PM | Feedback (2) |


More love for TechSmith


TechSmith, makers of Camtasia gets my "2nd best company of the day" award for posting comments to Kyle Archer's post and my post about Camtasia. It's great to see companies keep bloggers on their radar.

In case you were wondering, the "Best company of the day" award goes to (again) EnGraph Software!!

posted @ Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:29 AM | Feedback (1) |


Kyle likes Camtasia, and hates Depeche Mode


Kyle Archer has been blogging up a storm. 3 posts in 2 days...Go Kyle! He doesn't really hate Depeche Mode, but he was disappointed in their stage walk off the other night (so was Doug Butscher). He also found a cool product called Camtasia Studio that is going to allow us to quickly publish our PowerPoint presentations to the web.

posted @ Friday, May 12, 2006 11:38 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ EnGraph ]


How accurate is GPS


Dave Starr from GPS Tracking wrote a good post about the accuracy of GPS and the factors that influence the accuracy.

posted @ Friday, May 12, 2006 8:48 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ GPS ]


InternetNews.com


Nicholas Carlson called me the other day to talk about Where's Tim and Google technology. He was nice enough to write an article on InternetNews.com about it yesterday.

He also gave Dave Rheingold from ShakinDave.com a plug.

posted @ Friday, May 12, 2006 7:37 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Where's Tim ]


Matt took Where's Tim


Watch Matt Strausz of SmartStart prevent drunk driving this weekend on Where's Tim

If you get on his site, check out the Find Location page. They have some cool Google Maps on there (built by yours truly).

posted @ Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:40 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Where's Tim ]


Tulip Time


I'm off to Pella, IA this weekend to see my family and attend Tulip Time!! Watch me drive one of the most boring stretches of interstate on Where's Tim

posted @ Friday, May 05, 2006 7:02 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Where's Tim ]


Messaging RSS Feed


On Where's Tim, you can send a text message to my phone by clicking on my location icon and populating the fields. I've been getting some funny messages since the Digg effect. For your viewing pleasure, I syndicate these messages in an RSS Feed. My favorite was a guy from Spain that said "Where are you?"

I respond to all messages if they populate the "from email" field. I've had some good conversations with these people.

posted @ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:28 AM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ EnGraph Where's Tim ]


Updates to Where's Tim


This weekend, we migrated Where's Tim to ASP.net 2.0 and Google Maps API v2. We also added some "Get directions" functionality to SmartStart of Kansas Find a location page.

And we just got dugg!

posted @ Monday, May 01, 2006 12:12 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ EnGraph GPS Mapping Where's Tim ]