Although it's not quite the tsunami they may have hoped for *yet. I believe it's gotten one step closer with Notifications to your email address of Wave activity in your Wave account.

Here's a great blog post by the Wave team on how to turn these notifications on. I turned mine on, and I hope that we can use Wave to our advantage at Navtrak.

I don't know how many times I've tried to explain this phenomena to people in my company, or others who work with/for programmers, but the truths espoused here are so very self-evident to us programmers, but maybe not so much with everyone else. Anyhow, great article and here is a link to it: "Programming is like a dream"

Here's my favorite excerpt:

While this article "10 things google has taught Us" originally appeared on cnn.com today, I thought it was a great read, and I didn't want to forget where I could read it, and show it to others. The 5th thing that Google has taught us really struck home for me :) (i wonder why)

The rest of the article is filled with 9 other great tips and things to think about and it was well put together by Ken Auletta. Hop on over to cnn.com to view this interesting and thought provoking article. Hopefully I can help permeate some of these things into the culture of Navtrak, although I have to admit... we really happen to be quite like the points described here, we are very lucky!

And one more, the last point in fact is also good to ponder:

So, yesterday my company launched it's 6th or 7th incarnation of our website. Here's a link to the first one :) Starting back in 1999 we had this crazy idea to start tracking vehicles on the internet, and now here we are 10 years later and still kickin!

Things have come a long way, the product has matured into a VERY stable platform complete with a tracking API, a newly released AIR Application (interface designed by me), Flex application and a Coldfusion driven reporting system (done by your's truly.)

So go check it out, and if you or someone you know could use vehicle tracking for their company, give 'em my name, and our website http://www.navtrakgps.com

That's right folks... just announced at Adobe Max 2009 - With the advent of Flash CS5 flash developers around the world will be able to make games and other applications for the iPhone using flash! it's about time, and you can go here to read more about this amazing new feature!

This is NOT flash in the safari browser inside the iPhone this is native iPhone application support. One great step towards a more Flash Filled Future on my iPhone!

By far the best comment of the day on this comes from Ryan Stewart - Adobe's Flash Platform Evangelist

how cool... it's my favorite tv to program and code and design website's to... NFL Football... and tonight's pre-season "Hall of Fame Game" and that mean's it's almost time for Nerdfootball.com And that means also, that it's almost time for the Oakland Raiders (my team) to play the San Diego Supercharger's at the Coliseum in Oakland on the very first Monday Night Football game of the year.

nerdfootball.com is a really fun football pool that i built many moons ago, and in our now 8th year of running we have one of the largest pools yet! it's a pick and confidence type pool, where you assign a "Confidence Factor" to each game, and for each game you get right, you get those points. points range from 1-16 (if there are 16 games that week) and you better pick wisely, because every point matters! Oh and of course there is a "Smack Down" area where you can let your opponents know just how you feel!

there is also a suicide pool on the site, where you can run each type of Nerdfootball pool on your own, and it's all self manageable!

if you'd like to setup a pool for this season, we are open for business and would love to host your pool. each pool can be purchased with a credit card, through paypal, and we are real honest nerds, who just love football and website geek stuff :)

the cost is very reasonable, and negotiable. in addition to the football pool website, we also have Nerdbasketball.com that enables you to run and be a part of the coolest NCAA MARCH MADNESS BASKETBALL POOL! It's built using Adobe Flex and is possibly, the coolest RIA Basketball pool on the planet!

We are "The House of the Nerd" and we welcome you to a time tested tradition of football pool and basketball pool fun!

Below is an image and if you click on it, you will see the larger version of it, which gives you an idea of the interface for picking games.

id love to see coldfusion and flex/flashplatform converge into a tool that us coldfusion diehards can more easily migrate to.

there doesnt seem to be any reason we couldnt use cf-like tags inside mxml to replace what happens in actionscript... actionscript is hard to migrate to after all these years in coldfusion tag-based-land.

make it happen :) please, thanks.

well, at least I can drive a really old bobcat to the tune of billie jean in a friends back farm yard... what :)

we made this so that i could get on the "Eternal Moonwalk" but alas, we were 1 day late to enter the video.

Sometime this weekend, we lost ability to take pictures with our Panasonic DMC-FS5 that is slightly over 2 years old. We kept getting an error message that stated "Please turn camera off then on again" Even though I rarely like to follow the directions, I did. And guess what, to no avail. So, I scoured the web for information about this problem, and the best advice anyone had for the fix, was to send it in for repair. Sure. A camera that cost about $400 when we bought it, was used and abused for 2 years, I don't think so. Yes, it has definitely taken some nice pictures for us, but I'm not going to spend the time to deal with that crap... So, what did I do to fix it??

So, I decided to resort to the ages old method of fixing something... I simply banged it on my desk one sharp time, and BAM, the lens retracted and the camera is now fixed.

I have no idea why it's working now, it simply is. And with that, I am happy, and I can cross at least one thing off of my to-do list for today!

nice.

so i was attempting to hit a WCF webservice today from Coldfusion 8 written by a colleague here @ Navtrak in WCF and kept getting the following error:

so, we dug a bit deeper and figured out that his SVC file did not have the following declaration at the top:

this fixed it right up, and we are rockin and rollin' now!