Ten Years by Rev TheoryYesterday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Dallas TechFest 2010. I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application and spicing it up incrementally using jQuery, the hottest JavaScript library around. The micro-conference; I suppose you can call it that, was a lot of fun. I attended some pretty good sessions, including MySQL [...]
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Dallas TechFest 2010
Posted: 31st July 2010 by Adam Presley in General, White and NerdyTags: Conference, programming, Technology
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So my girlfriend and I were discussing some plans we’ve gotta make this year, and started talking about cool dates. You know, like 9/9/1999. The coolest one so far for this year would be 10/10/2010 (ten ten ten). So anyone who has ever known me knows that not only am I a giant nerd, but [...]
How to Find Yahoo Widgets Offscreen
Posted: 21st April 2008 by Adam Presley in General, White and NerdyFor those that enjoy the features offered by the Yahoo! Widgets you might at some point find yourself in a situation similar to what I experienced today. Somehow, perhaps with my two monitor goodness, and goofing that up by logging into our VPN, I tried to open up the Converter widget, and it never showed [...]
Excuse me. Where is your chain saw?
Posted: 17th December 2007 by Adam Presley in General, White and NerdyFor those that know me it comes as no surprise to learn I grew up in a hick town in north-east Texas. And in that area I have certainly seen my share of interesting hick-culture. I had not, however, seen anything quite like a Big Lots, which I just had the pleasure ofLa variété des [...]
Reasons for Excitement
Posted: 19th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Gaming, White and NerdyTags: Lord of the Rings Online, Video Games
Two reasons for my excitement this morning, and I shall sum them up promptly: Lord of the Rings Online content update, and Street Fighter IV. That’s right, you heard it. Street Fighter IV! I LOVED the old Street Fighter games. I grew up playing those in the arcades all day long, and then on my [...]
Yay! My main character in Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar just reached level 40! Woo hoo! Soon I shall be a level 50 champion renown throughout Middle Earth! :p
For those of us that play video games, raise your hand if you remember playing Diablo and Diablo II. Yeah, me too. What AWESOME games! The action + rpg elemnts made it a fantastical addiction that kept many a gamer up well past their bed time. Well, I’m not sure how I missed this game [...]