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I love listening to the podcasts by Paul Boag over at BoagWorld.com. They're great fun and give plenty of food for thought. Evidently Mr. Boag recently gave a talk at a Web 2.0 Seminar on "What is Web 2.0?, How does it Apply to Me Anyway?" and the presentation has been turned into an excellent 20 minute video complete with slides It's directed more toward site owners than programmers, but it offers some good points you might want to share with your clients.

link: http://www.2dot0-film.co.uk/Web2/P6/p6.html

some other presentations from the Web 2.0 seminar:

• Web 2.0 - a New Landscape
  
• Web 2.0 - What Meaning Can Add to Your Website
• Webs of People, Webs of Data
• BBC TV & Web 2.0

LifeHacker is coming out with a book, Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. To promote the book they have published a preview of Chapter 1: Free up mental RAM which offers some "geekier ways for capturing all the 'stuff' that's chewing up your brain's cycles."

If you can, go check out the details for

• Hack 1: Email your future self
• Hack 2: Manage a todo.txt File at the Command Line
• Hack 3: Develop Your (Digital) Photographic Memory
• Hack 4: Install Your Personal Wikipedia
• Hack 5: Keep an Instiki Wiki Hyperlinked Notebook
• Hack 6: Take Great Notes

Link: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-the-book/lifehacker-book-preview-chapter-1--free-up-mental-ram-217497.php

Cheers :D - Megan 

For those who have been wondering how Blue Dragon or Railo might compare with Adobe Coldfusion, Mark Drew has a blog post Comparing Component speed on different CFML engines

The Engines:

• Adobe ColdFusion 7.02
  
  
• New Atlanta Bluedragon Server JX 6.2.1.9
  
  
• Railo (Live) 1.0.0.027

FYI - Railo comes out looking pretty good on the charts

Cheers :) - Megan

"Turkey Day" is over here in the states, Christmas Shopping Frenzy has begun, and I woke up this morning with the realization that 2007 is approaching WAY too fast. Typically, this is the time of year when there is too much going on, days become a blur, and I start telling my husband if I lose my last wit, would he please just slip a little something into my morning coffee because I don't want to hang around that way.

Still, there are things one can do to maintain mental fitness and stay confident, positive, optimistic & just generally more in control of where your life is heading. Kelly Huston has a good article called, The Ten Part Mental Fitness Program over on e-articles.info Some of her suggestions include:

• Think about Your Goals
• Take a Test Every Day
• Focus on Results
• Concentrate on Solutions
• Dedicate Yourself to Lifelong Learning

Sounds to me she'd make a great CF developer ;P

Anyway, bullet points really don't do her advice any justice. check it all out at:

http://www.e-articles.info/e/a/title/The-Ten-Part-Mental-Fitness-Program/

Cheers :D - Megan

In our house, the holidays are a time not only for bringing out favorite recipes but also for trying new ones. Yesterday, I realized I hadn't been over to ColdfusionCookbook.com in a while. When I clicked on over to see what was new, I found that Jeremy Petersen had posted a recipe on how to create a tag cloud from a query. One more tasty tidbit for my CF recipe collection :)

link: http://www.coldfusioncookbook.com/entry/119/How-do-I-create-a-tag-cloud-from-a-query 

cheers :D - Megan 

Traditionally the Friday following Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year (in the US anyway). So in honor of this important day, I thought I would post that Jeff Houser  recently wrote an article for ColdFusion Developer's Journal that includes information on how to get credit card swipe data into ColdFusion via a USB credit card swiper. (Scroll down to "Wednesday: Credit Card Swipes")

link:  http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/296187.htm

Cheers :D - Megan