Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Dallas TechFest 2010

Posted: 31st July 2010 by Adam Presley in General, White and Nerdy
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Yesterday 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 [...]

Running on a VPS Now

Posted: 28th April 2010 by Adam Presley in General
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About a week ago I moved all the code for my site onto a new VPS (Virtual Private Server) provided by 2Host.com. With their unmanaged service I get 1GB of RAM, 30GB of hard drive space, and over 9TB of bandwidth, and I get it at a great price! So far the service has been [...]

Free Linux and Windows Screen Sharing Software

Posted: 13th July 2009 by Adam Presley in General, Tools and Apps
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I’m a sucker for cool applications. I also am a super-sucker for FREE cool applications. I was working on some code with my friend Collin tonight and we had a need to take a look at some code together, but we aren’t anywhere near each other. To further complicate matters I’m running on Ubuntu Linux [...]

Dallas Techfest and ColdFusion 9

Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development, General
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This last Friday I attended the ColdFusion track at the Dallas Techfest. I went with a coworker and ex-coworker specifically to see the ColdFusion 9 preview. It was a good presentation that I must admit I’m a little excited about. For me, this is the most exciting ColdFusion release in a long time. In my [...]

30% Of Internet Users Admit To Buying From Spam

Posted: 21st August 2008 by Adam Presley in General
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Have a read of this article and see if you don’t get angry the next time you get spam in your email in-box. Techdirt: 30% Of Internet Users Admit To Buying From Spam