Sorting through mountains of apps

Browsing apps is pretty frustrating now.

With 500,000 apps in the app store, old fashioned, simple, one-size-fits-all browsing techniques are not really good enough. The categorization and search-string filter system is way too primitive. Apple is going to have to do something to keep up with that scale.

Microsoft is up to 30,000 apps [...]

Microsoft’s Top Secret Courier Tablet

I rarely write about technology because it’s all either derivative or temporal.  Well, I suppose that all technology suffers these burdens, but this new Microsoft tablet computer, if it really works as advertised, looks like a game-changer.

I like technology, but I’m not an early adopter.  I just like the idea of new technology.  [...]

Microsoft’s Project Natal

I’ve found in life that whenever a product bends over backwards to tell you that it is a certain way… it is most likely just the opposite. Project Natal demonstrates this nicely.

Microsoft's Project Natal Demo – Lame

It is billed as giving gamers unprecedented control over their games by doing away with [...]

“Give it away, you’ll enjoy it,” Gates tells rich

Those who know me know that I repeatedly wonder why mega-rich people don’t give much of their wealth away.  The funnest thing you can do in life is make other people happy.  The quickest way to do this is to hand them money.  I’ve always said that I won the lottery, I would give [...]

How to get ColdFusion to talk to SQL Express 2005

I’m still in the process of setting up local development environments on multiple computers using the following:

ColdFusion MX 7 (Developer)MS SQL Server 2005 ExpressMySQL 5ApacheEclipse (w/ CFEclipse)

The latest snag came in getting ColdFusion to validate a datasource linking to a SQL Server 2005 Express database.  Googling around eventually turned up an answer, [...]