Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility.
Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? But how does the concept of accountability transfer into the corporate world? Specifically, in high-tech companies like ours that offer GPS tracking services, -where promising "immediate" ROI's and "free trials" is the norm?
We've been around since 1990 (and our sister B2B communication companies for 30+ years), which makes us, , "industry veterans," and as such we've seen countless vehicle tracking companies come and go. The ones that make it, like us, do business the right way – by treating each customer as a partner, and realizing that if the customer doesn't succeed, we don't succeed.
Read more: http://navtrak.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/gps-tracking-video/

this is TOTALLY snagged from Ray Camden's post on this topic...

Pardon the brief, probably overly dramatic title, but I wanted to get your attention. ColdFusion Community member Aaron West is one of many people suffering with due to the Nashville flooding. A Paypal donation site has been set up to help him out: http://friendsforaaron.blogspot.com/ This is 100% legit. If you've been a user of any of my open source stuff and have been looking to visit my wishlist, I'd urge you to send a donation to help Aaron and his family out. They are close to half way to their goal of 5K. Please give what you can!

And yes - the blue arrow is his house:

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

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.

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!

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!

im posting this so that i can have it for later use on the topic. apparently this will greatly improve the semantic web of data we have at our hands, and make searching and indexing it faster/better/greater success in delivering good content that a user wants!

anything that we as web developers can do to make our sites more indexable for our client the better!

so, anyway, here is the link to the article itself Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa

and as the man behind the internet, himself Tim Berners-Lee stated so eloquently:

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. " - Tim Berners-Lee

credit for this article is due to Timothy O'Brien at O'Reilly and here is a link to Tim's blog (blog.discursive.com)

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

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