Revolution Web Design Blog - AIR

From the Navtrak Blog - Ven·dor ac·count·abil·i·ty

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:26:00 -0600

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/

Programming is like a dream

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:28:00 -0600

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:


My brother contends that it is this same phenomena that makes programmers so bad at estimates. The problem is, as he says, that the programmer already knows everything that needs to be written. When you have it all in your mind, it seems like it should be easy to write it all down. But it's not. The physical act of writing the code takes a long time. But more importantly, your mind never thinks about all the "meaningless" details. It knows how to code them so well it doesn't even need consider their existence anymore. Unfortunately, the computer still needs them. It can't infer. All those loose ends, niggling details and corner cases end up eating a great deal of time... sometimes more than the rest of the program.

Navtrak releases it's newest website navtrakgps.com

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:46:00 -0600

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

a change i'd like to see in the flashplatform

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:50:00 -0600

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.

TweetDeck Autocomplete new feature released in v0.21.6

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:37:00 -0600

great new feature, and this includes a host of new features for TweetDeck. for this new Autocomplete feature you get the following behaviour:


Here is a small but useful update to TweetDeck - username autocomplete. The autocomplete window is triggered by either
typing "d " at the beginning of a tweet
typing "@" anywhere in a tweet

and this not-heavily-released vesion also included the following changes from v0.21.5:


Added TweetDeck Services tab to Settings window
Added Powered by Twitscoop message
Added "reset window" command to Windows system tray
Added auto shorten url in shorten url box when user hits enter
Added auto include hashtags from original tweet when replying
Added persistent last 10 used hashtags dropdown to tweet box
Added twitter.com connectivity check to login screen
Added preference to view profiles via web page (saves 3 api calls)
Added global messaging/alert system
Added preference to control brightness of icons
Added StockTwits Friends, Portfolio, All, Recommended, Commentary columns
Added new "Other actions the tweet box

Updated Tweetdeck to pull twitscoop API every 2 minutes
Updated column title to link to twitscoop.com

Fixed profile follow/unfollow button to use extra API call to friendshipexists
Fixed duplicate posts in group columns
Fixed inconsistencies with unseen tweet count
Fixed "in reply to" when user changes the recipient
Fixed favoriting in profile tweets
Fixed links with # in not displaying in tweets
Fixed reply column showing already cleared tweets
Fixed overlap issue in remove column confirm window

Removed Tweetdeck Services auto insert
Removed maximum character limit on tweet box

the only feature im REALLY waiting on at this point, , its coming so thats cool!