At Navtrak, we've found that as our service evolves beyond merely tracking vehicles on a map, our customers increasingly report that their people have come to depend upon us and appreciate the efficiency tools we provide.
As one Navtrak user, the Service Manager for a large fuel delivery and service company, put it: "Once they got used to it, our people have been happy with the system. It saves them paperwork and time both in and out of the office, and they like that. And, more importantly, they see how it's helping us to stay successful."
Read the whole article here

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:

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.

From Adobe's website:

View the Browser Lab Website

(FYI: i was able to login with my Adobe credentials that I use for forums, Alpha stuff, etc)

Some gripes... there is no choice for Chrome, which I realize is new-ish, but come on guys :) Also, no choice for Mobile Browsers? I guess these things will be coming soon enough!

Avoid the GPS service "black hole"
Most fleet owners and managers recognize that knowing the precise location of your vehicles and their daily activities can quickly lead to substantial savings on fuel, overtime, insurance premiums, and other critical operational costs.

However, this is only one small part of the picture – the part anyone can see, even before they decide to use a GPS tracking system. The rest of the picture emerges only after a system has been installed.

Once you experience the financial boost that comes from your initial trimming away of wasteful driving patterns, side trips and fuel usage – what comes next?

All too often, the vendor that installed the system hasn't bothered to train you and your staff on how to make the most of the information you're getting in the long term - to incorporate it into your everyday processes and routine. They get you up and running, but you never see them again. This is the GPS service "black hole" that exists for most vendors of fleet management "solutions."

But the truth about GPS services is that the more you use them, the more valuable and indispensable they become for your daily operation. [Check out this customer success story for just one example of what we mean.] And the responsibility for making sure this is the case shouldn't be all yours.

Click here to read more about Avoid the GPS service "black hole" by Navtrak GPS Tracking

Navtrak Proudly uses ColdFusion 8, Flex, LCDS and many other products from the Adobe Stack of web technologies.

i thought it might be neat to see what words i most use when tweeting in my favorite twitter application, Wordle to see if i could generate a beautiful word cloud. first i went to my twitter page, and made sure that all of my tweets from all the way back to the first day i signed on "April 17th, 2008" and simply copy and pasted them into my favorite text editor, adobe dreamweaver cs3, and from there removed some words i didnt care to see in there "twittelator, twhirl, am, pm, etc"

Anyway, here is my Wordle

very cool to see... go try it with yours!

you can hide these blog postings if you'd like... i understand... they are not for you... and would bore me if i were you... facebook has a great feature whereby you can link your blog to your facebook page and draw interested web searchers that way.

conversely, to all of my geek friends, you might want to try adding your blog's rss feed to facebook's "notes" system and see if help's generate traffic!

i know that i have enjoyed a 280% increase on my Google Adsense payouts this month, and i'm looking to get that return to increase even more. why not. we have good knowledge, that new people in the industry want - more and more each day!

good luck, im sure you will be able to figure it out. but if you cannot... here is some information that i found here at SiteProNews "5 ways to Import and Promote your blog on Facebook"