While I keep poking around Django, I have yet to do much other than from simple stuff with it. That said, it’s definitely starting to gain some ground, particularly in the media space. Locally in Colorado, both the Boulder Daily Camera and the Steamboat Pilot have converted their sites to using Django, [...]

I’ve been using Netvibes for around a month now, and it’s one of the best online tools I’ve used (especially since I use it very frequently). The best way I can sum it up is that it’s a “web desktop” and definitely the most “web 2.0″ thing I’ve used aside from 30boxes. [...]

I actually wrote this entry a couple of days ago but at the time when I wrote it I couldn’t get to my server to post it and am just getting around to posting it now. I think I’m pretty much convinced it’s time to stop being cheap and get a VPS account running [...]

A post from Sean on Static vs. Dynamic languages reminded me that I needed to get around to finishing up a piece I started long ago about why I think Interfaces in ColdFusion are completely irrelevant. In particular, this quote is what reminded me about it:

I've built large systems in dynamic lanaguages. I've built [...]

Rony Kahan, one of the founders of Indeed (a search engine for jobs) e-mailed me about their new Salary Search Tool which is currently in beta.
Here are a few interesting examples which I tried out:
ColdFusion's biggest employer by geography seems to be Washington DC metro area because of all of the goverment related entities using [...]

Being a lifelong geek, I'm usually an early adopter of various technologies, and Linux has been no exception for me. I started using Linux sometime in 1997 after hearing about it on IRC. I first installed RedHat on a 486 without XFree86 to play with it and force myself to learn *nix by [...]

I was just cleaning up some stuff out of the recycle bin in one of my GMail accounts when GMail gave me this "Recycling Tip":

Someone who reads Slashdot at Google must have added this "suggestion".
In case you're reading this article with confusion, you can read more about tinfoil hats here.

I'm proud to announce that I'm now part of the ColdFusion Developer's Journal Editorial Board. We have quite an impressive list of experienced developers and evangelists in the community, and I'm honored to be part of the great group helping steer the magazine along with Jeremy and Simon.
I've always enjoyed writing and critiquing technical [...]

After many obsessive discussions with my co-workers earlier this year about Snakes On A Plane, I decided to purchase the snacksonaplane.net domain in April. Recent events finally gave me a good reason to use it to create a Snacks On A Plane?!!? poster. Note: the f-bomb is used.

From del.icio.us, it looks like Yahoo! just created a Python Developer Center which looks to be a good resource on Python as well as tutorials on how to interact with various Yahoo! services using Python.
I'm glad to see that Python is also getting a bit more attention lately despite all of the hype behind Ruby [...]