Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog

Wikipedia Raises 6 Million

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:11:00 -0700

In a thank you note from wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales he thanks the many donors for helping to raise over 6 million dollars to support wikimedia's continuing operations for 2009. [More]

30GB Zunes Self Destruct On New Years

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:25:00 -0700

I'm sure you have all heard that the 30GB Zune MP3 player by MicroSoft simply stopped working at the start of the new Year. But I can't help but enjoy a little schadenfreude with this little bit of news. It just goes to show that MS continues to wr...

Happy New Year

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:10:00 -0700

2008 in Review This year I celebrated my second wedding anniversary and also my second year living in Germany. My German has drastically improved and I can "almost" say that I am bilingual. I still make a lot of grammatical mistakes mostly because... [More]

Server Move Update 2

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:38:00 -0700

Got the mails flowing again so at least I can answer any questions or comments :) Hopefully the other small kinks will be worked out soon. NO Railo problems mostly just little problems with the server configuration. I have some good help thus fa...

Server Move

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:29:00 -0700

I took the opportunity while on Vacation to move my site over to my very own server this weekend. There are probably some more kinks to work out but you will immediately notice the "Powered by Railo" badge on the left. [More]

Quiet Time

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:51:00 -0700

Going to probably go off the Radar a bit until next year (sounds so far away doesn't it?). At the moment is crunch time at work while I tie up some loose ends and prepare to go on Christmas Holiday and spend some quality time with my wife and fa...

Quake and Flash

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:36:00 -0700

At MAX Milan they showed a sneak peak of Quake playing on a web browser through Flash. I've already seen and played Doom 1 ported to Flash using Alchemy but would like to get my hands on the Quake Port. Has anyone seen and/or tried the port? Is i...

New iGoogle Sucks!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:27:00 -0700

I've been holding off on writing this for a while to see if the new iGoogle design would grow on me but it hasn't [More]

Some thoughts on MAX2008

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:29:00 -0700

Max2008 in Milan is over for me now, I arrived home at just after 2am in the morning after spending only 8 hours on the bus this time, and a few things went through my mind on the drive home. [More]

Ask Gary: Advanced Charting

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:25:00 -0700

I got an email from a reader yesterday asking about CFCHART and my JFREE custom tags: Hi - i noticed your blog entry from earlier this year about work you were doing on a CF custom tag interface to JFREE, and was wondering how that work was comin... [More]

Where is my CFDude Shirt?

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:48:00 -0700

You know the "CFDude" from the Adobe Air launch poster? I've seen him on a T-Shirt here, Ben Forta. I asked Ben how I could get a T-Shirt and he said that they are not available here at Max Europe 2008. [More]

Max Day 1 or Evangelists are People too

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:13:00 -0700

I sat in on the Air Boot Camp yesterday that was being presented by Duane Nicull (fellow Canadian) and James Ward. After the session I had the pleasure of chatting with both James and Duane with a few other Evangelists and speakers over a beer befor... [More]

The Never-ending Journey

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:47:00 -0700

Well the Max bus ended up taking slightly longer to get to Max than first planned. After the delayed pickup of one hour (arrival time in Munich 11:30pm). We had to make a pit stop by the Adobe office in Munich before hitting the road sometime after... [More]

Doom 1 Ported with Adobe Alchemy

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:50:00 -0700

Yes that's the game that caused me to break into the MBA lab with 4 other friends, order Pizza and stay up until the sun came up was recently ported to a Flash game using Adobe Alchemy. [More]

Get on the Bus, Guss

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:12:00 -0700

It's 7:15pm here in Munich, temperature around 7Celcius and I just finished packing for Max. I just need to shut my laptop down and then all will be ready. The bus has about a hour delay as of my last check. Apparently the plan is to show the enti...