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In about 30 days - CodeMash 2010 has  sold out!! CodeMash is an event designed to expose developers to current tech, methods and trends across a variety of platforms and languages…it’s also held in Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark!! See ya there!! >:0)

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Psst! HMIS Update

Team Lazarus have been good little worker gnomes – yet even they need a good and earned holiday break! We’re still on track with Project:Seraph – the codename for Digital Gnome’s HMIS. I’m afraid though we were not immune to the Ruby on Rails vs CakePHP (or other PHP Web framework). We spent some time developing two codebases for the server and….it’s hard to pick. I want to merge them both. For me, once I read up on the Ruby language I got sooo much more out of using RoR.  CakePHP, however plays to my PHP experience. And I’m totally  ecstatic...

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Fresh AIR

At first glance, I pegged Adobe’s AIR product as gimmicky and left it at that. Recently a client asked for a tool that could convert some data from CSV format to a XML format. Easy enough. “What Platform” I asked assuming Windows. “Well – some of my clients have Macs” my client replied. Sounds like a Job for Flash! Only the app needed to run off the various clients desktops and once I saw the size of some of these files…better they be processed over the clients several machines than one server. I took a second look at Adobe AIR – and I am...

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One Year Ago…

I got my walking papers about this time last year from a company that outsourced it’s software development to Beijing – then was bought by a Canadian company. I miss the folks I’ve worked with -but the lesson isn’t lost on me.  Change is a charging minotaur breathing down your back as you navigate the maze. Like it or not you’re going to have to think like Theseus – or wind up dealing with the business end of some horns. It’s the one thing you can absolutely count on, and still not be prepared. There is an African wisdom that says: Every morning...

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