http://www.screencast.com/t/YjM2ZWJlNDQt The next presentation on pure android will be uploaded soon. Thanks to John Wilker and Tom Ortega! Those guys are the BOMB!

I was messing around wtih Ehcache.xml and set diskpresistent=true, after that my ORMEvictEntity stopped to work and it drove me nuts trying to figure out what was going on, till I realized that it was the diskpresitent=true that was causing it, when i took it out, everything came back to life!

I will be talking about how to develop a large scale android application with ColdFusion 9. Subtopics will include - API Security - Android Performance Tuning - ColdFusion Performance Tuning - ColdFusion 9 ORM - Ehcache Tuning - Giving the Illusion of "Speed" Check it all out at Riadventure! Riadventure.com

Im a Speaker at Riadventure!

Ill be presenting at RIAdventure this december. its going to be fun in the sun with tons of geeky stuff, like mixing and matching Android with ColdFusion and Flex. Session Sharing, ORM, and tons of more cool stuff. This is a presentation you wont want to miss!

I see myself as a Visionary and Entrepreneur , with AndSpot and another super top secret project I'm working on -which by the way are turing out to be revolutionary- , University comes in between of many things. Now I don't mean the "work-load" of university but I mean the administrative things. For example, I got invited to speak at a conference, its a 4 day conference (Ill post more details when its fully confirmed), So i got invited and for me this is a huge opportunity. A Massive one. Ill be speaking about ColdFusion, Android, ORM, AIR all sorts of crazy integration/mash-up between those technologies. Now the problem is getting the university to realize how big of an opportunity this is for me, since the 4 days im missing I might have an exam one of those days. Another example was when I had to speak at the toronto flex user group, the University kept a math test on the same day (which was decided after I accepted the user group talk), that was a complicated situation to explain to the university. I wonder what Bill Gates did when he was starting Microsoft and was in University.. Oh wait he dropped out :)

I was looking through the amounts of Spam I get and I thought it would be cool to put a quantitive measure on Spam you get, not the amount of spam you have currently. The formula is simple, look at a 24 hour range in your spam box and divide the number of emails you got in those 24 hours and you will have your Spam Rating , or Spar. For me its 223/24 , or 9.29 Spars. Whats your Spar rating?

http://www.insideria.com/2009/07/the-google-stack-explored---ch.html

I've been looking over the latest entries on Coldfusion 9 and Coldfusion builder, and I have to say the ORM feature and the code generation done by CFBuilder for ORM is really sweet. I admit, before CF9 I never felt the need to look at ORM, I always thought it was just some thing i didn't need. Was I wrong, ORM in CF9 kicks some serious ass. For those who are not familiar with ORM, here is ben fortas introduction to ORM. http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/7/ORM-Rethinking-ColdFusion-Database-Integration Pretty sexy if you ask me, trust me ;) .

Im currently in the process of beginning to write a new android book. Yea there are quite a bit of them about there, in my opinion I think I can write a better book focused more on getting things done rather then getting things you would rarely do done. Sure the usual content will be there, but i want to add more interesting stuff so the floor is open to anyone who is interested in android, What do you want from an android book. If your idea ends up being used Ill be sure to thank you in the book, so leave your name :) .

Lynda is offering free Catalyst Training. Check it out, its pretty cool. Especially since Catalyst is a completely new program, there is no previous experience we can bring to the table to get caught up with it. http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=432

Don't get me wrong, I Love halo. I bought both halo 2 and 3 on launch day. Stood in line for 6 hours to get my hands on the limited edition super pimped out copies. I just saw the trailers to the new halo games, Halo ODST and Halo Reach and I don't know the spark isn't there. I remember when I first saw the halo 3 trailer, I jumped up and down and now its 12:37 am and Im just looking at these saying cool and just not even bothering to go find out more about them or anything. Either I'm just getting too old for this stuff, or Halo is losing is charm. What are you thoughts?

I can finally talk about this in the open!. Being on the prerelease for both these products (and many more cool ones coming ;) ) has been quite fun. You get to see the latest features and the goods and bads before the world sees it. Some of the cool things from Flash builder have been that they have really integrated the data service model into the IDE. You can create CFC's based on the data, do other cool stuff and it just makes life easy as pie. With respect to Flash Catalyst, while I havent checked out the build on Labs yet ( I think i got the same one from the prerelease site) one thing that bothers me and *again* I do not know if this is implemented in the build on labs and *i do not even know if i can talk about this*, but you cant edit the code view for the tool. Maybe this is just because its a beta, and they dont want anything being messed up but other then that little bug, Flash platform is a real kick ass tool. The funny thing is, now that F.C is released I cant seem to find any use for it! I havent taken any client work in the past few months because of AndSpot so I have nothing to test F.C against. Well Ill just try some stupid PSD off the web and convert it to a Flex Desgin. Great work Adobe!

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_reusability.html?devcon=f8 Its a great chapter with some great little new information. Check it out. I made it to devnet!

It was hard, took month and months but we finally did it. What we had to do first was use tamarain engine that Mozilla has and the Flash 9 Spec to develop a JAVA program to get flash to stick onto the android. It took months and months, mainly because it was just me a single developer doing it. I finally got it running last night but was too tired to post it. Here it is, a link to the main page, source code, downloads, etc etc all that cool stuff.

AndSpot's Page For Flash