Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog

The Pirate Bay Sold!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:03:00 +0200

This came as a quite a shock to me today to hear that The Pirate Bay has been sold to Global Gaming Factory will this spell the end to TPB much like that of napster? [More]

Railo Documentation

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:52:00 +0200

If you have been playing with Railo lately you may have noticed that the Railo Wiki is still a tad meger. Well all that is soon to change. [More]

iPhone Navi Software Now Available!

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:36:00 +0200

The first "professional" navigation software for the iPhone is now available for purchase from Apples Appstore. The App is made by company NAVIGON and is claiming to be the "first professional navigation solution for the iPhone". [More]

iPhone OS3 Cracked!

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:23:00 +0200

The new OS for the iPhone has been available since Wednesday and the new crack was released on Friday as reported by the Dev-Team blog. [More]

A Little R&R

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:33:00 +0200

I've been working pretty hard lately and putting in some pretty long hours. I've had little to no time to write on my blog much less play with any new technologies, or techiques that have come out in the past six months. [More]

What Went Wrong?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:00:00 +0200

In my hurry to get my last post "out the door" and let everyone know that yes I am actually still alive and kicking I didn't bother to mention exactly what went wrong. So if you are interested you may read on for a little bit of self deprecation. [More]

The Problem with being too busy

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:16:00 +0200

Lately work has being getting the best of me. I have been frankly just being working a little too often too long and things that are important to me, such as my blog, have been suffering the consequences.

Sometimes, however, things just don't go the way one has planned, the resources aren't there and you find yourself trying to wear just one too many hats to hold off the inevitable catastrophe. I sometimes feel like I am spending too much time bailing the boat out to man the oars, but if I don't bail the boat there won't be any need to man the oars because the boat will sink!

And then there was today. I start my computer up, visited my blog and its just not there anymore. I made a change on Thursday and managed to take my blog off-line. Today is Saturday! almost 48hrs down, It is sickening this would never have happened six months ago without me knowing about it. Something has to change before I either have a break down or snap or both.

I need to slow down and spend more time doing the things I enjoy. I enjoy my blog, I enjoy writing on my blog and sharing my enthusiasm for web technologies with the people who take the time to visit and read what I write, whether stumbled upon during a Google search or a frequent visitor.

In the end, though, it didn't take too long to figure out the cause the problem is that something I did in a hurry brought my site down when it shouldn't have. For that I appologise to those who visit my site.

Max 2009 Application/Game

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:58:00 +0200

As most of you by now know the website for Adobe MAX2009 is up and running. Like last year they have added a little flash application which lets you "explore" a little. You can find it [More]

Wolfram: The Computational Knowledge Engine

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:40:00 +0200

On Saturday 16.05.2009, I stumbled upon an article about Wolfram Alpha the Computational Knowlege Engine. What exactly is a Computational Knowlege Engine? [More]

Praise for ColdFusion from Gartner

Fri, 15 May 2009 12:16:00 +0200

Kristen Schofield posted on her blog some excerpts from a Gartner Report titled "Adobe ColdFusion: Past, Present and Future". [More]

Ext JS 3.0 Remoting Made Simple with Ext:Direct

Thu, 14 May 2009 18:22:00 +0200

Yesterday Ext JS announced via their blog the release of Ext:Direct a new package to help developers write less code by streamlining communication between client and server. [More]

Wolverine: X-Men Origins

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:08:00 +0200

It's been some time since I have been to the Movies and needing something to distract me and a little entertainment I decided to go see Wolverine last night. It's the first movie that I have seen this year and also the first time in a long time I have gone to the theatre alone. [More]

Comparing CFML Engine Compatibility

Sun, 03 May 2009 12:48:00 +0200

Saw an interesting thread on the Railo Google group yesterday that spawned from a post on Jira about Railo's duplicate() function. [More]

Coldfusion and jQuery

Fri, 01 May 2009 11:38:00 +0200

It's been relatively quiet in Munich on the CF front (user group meetings) but a nudge in the right direction always helps to get things moving. The Munich CFUG will be getting together on May 5th [More]

Don't Forget cf.Objective()!

Fri, 01 May 2009 11:30:00 +0200

You don't have much time now to plan your flights, hotels and sessions for cfobjective. Unless you have been living under a rock you already know that its taking place between May 14th, and 16th at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis. [More]