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Getting USB Device Drivers Working for HTC Android … 2 days ago

I set up a new Eclipse environment today and wanted to use my HTC Thunderbolt for testing. Usually, the way this works is you right click on your project then select your manual run target of your phone. My HTC Thunderbolt was not recognized for some reason. After digging around for a …

ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha 1 Released! Your Help Needed! 3 months ago

Mark Mandel posted information about the ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha release and I wanted to make sure it got out to the general public. There is a documentation contest running and your help is requested in trying out the release and helping to identify issues. Make sure you have joined the …

Quirk in MySQL Join Conditions 3 months ago

I found a quirk in a join condition today that caused too many records to display. Look at the following query and notice the two AND clauses after the LEFT JOIN to activitytype. SELECT * FROM organization grouptable INNER JOIN ( SELECT c.CommunityID, o.OrganizationID, …

Long Live the Conference! 5 months ago

Last year, one of the major tech conferences, CFUnited, closed it's doors for good. This left a hole in the learning and networking opportunities for ColdFusion developers. I gained much from going to CFUnited over the years. It helped me personally and also professionally. The …
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Thinking Like a Cupcake Kingpin 6 months ago

As you know, my company ChallengeWave is a tool for healthy challenges at work. at ChallengeWave, we've got a number of very large prospects (VLPs) in our sales pipeline. These prospects represent many millions of dollars of revenue. Each sale is complicated and requires approval at …
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On What Is Important 6 months ago

An article showed up in my inbox today titled Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain't the code . The background of this article is a pep talk delivered by Jason Cohen, of Smart Bear Software to the audience at Startup Weekend in Austin. I happen to agree strongly with the meat of this …
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To Free or Not to Free 6 months ago

It's pretty common for web based services to offer a free sign-up account as a trial period or self-directed demonstration. An advantage of offering free sign-ups is to give a potential customer a good look at the system in order to make a buying decision. For services with automated …
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Gmail Gmail, how thou hast forsaken me 6 months ago

Oh Gmail, Gmail How thou hath forsaken me Thou makest me to switch accounts where there used to be no problems Thou loggest me out at inopportune moments when I've emails to write Thou ignorest my pleas to open different accounts in multiple tabs I beat my breast and tear my clothes in …
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The worst entreprenurial sin 7 months ago

In my opinion, the worst entrepreneurial sin is building a product without a revenue stream. Sure there are strategies to build a web application, go viral and sell to GoogFaceYahooSoft.... but most of my readers live outside of the reality distortion field of Silicon Valley and must …
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Perfection is the Enemy of the Good 7 months ago

Remember when you used to work at BigCompanyCo as an employee? Remember all the dumb stuff they did there and how you would do it differently when you get in charge? Honestly, that feeling was one of the major drivers for me to start my own company. I felt like I could do it better, …
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