Fancy Bread

I finally have some free time get back into personal projects and blogging and I decided to kick start things with a migration to Mango Blog.

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I recently purchased and imported a first generation prelude as a gift for my wife. I haven't owned a car of this vintage since the mid 90's, so it took all of one drive from the border home to give me that "first car" love affair with this sweet little ride...

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Today, I wrote the final exam for the final course I need for my BComm. It was fitting that I wrote it at my home town University in Windsor, Ontario. I live in BC now, but circumstance brought me to Windsor this week, so I made arrangements to write my exam in town. Before the exam, I had that "full circle" feeling walking around the campus I had not set foot on for nearly 20 years. For a little history, I started university in September 1985 and left school in February 1989 to pursue personal interests (of the rock and roll variety). After many joe jobs and many bands, I made the decision to return to school in 1998 as a distance education student. Now ten years later, I've completed the requisites for my degree. It's been a long strange trip and now that it's over I just have to crank up the Alice Cooper...

Amcom Technology is chock full of serious Coldfusion and Flex talent. Not the least of which is Jon Messer who has long contributed to the many of the popular CF lists. Jon is starting a new series on building an object oriented application with multiple MVC clients including Flex. The first installment introduces the series and describes modeling business objects. If you are interested in OO application design for Coldfusion, I highly recommend this series as a reference.

I've had a strange quirk on this blog from day one. I wanted to use MySQL as a db, but my host had not installed the proper MySQL jdbc connector (3.1.10). So the first time I tried to refresh the cache...kaboom. From there it was a series of miscues and misunderstandings. Eventually, all was normal, except that my posts would only appear after an AM/PM or PM/AM time change. I started calling it my "publishing deadline" and tried to always post as close to the time change as possible. Well, that's rather inconvenient, so tonight I decided to upgrade to the latest version. It took me all of about 15 minutes and that included re-ordering my pods a couple times and refreshing the cache on my dev machine. Thanks, Ray, for making it dead simple!