CoverBuddy lets you use your PSP as an iTunes remote over WiFi.

Rails for ColdFusion?

Lost Remote: Cancellation great for ‘Arrested Development’ Some great ideas and points here. This show deserves to live.

Ray releases Starfish into the wild. It’s a CF debugger he has been working on. Worth a look.

Macworld: Editors' Notes: Close-up on Aperture

BOOMTUNE mini - Tripod Speaker

Some very cool looking and unique Nano cases from Speck.

TiVO gets apps.

You can wrap your nano in pinstripes now.

Why should a ColdFusion Developer care about Flex 2.0

Aperture looks damn cool. Not sure if it’s five hundred dollars cool though.

Well, I got back from Max on Thursday. It’s the following Monday morning, and I think I have had ample time to distill the important things out of the experience. Let’s see if I can successfully now turn those thoughts into prose.

Much of the message from Macromedia this year was about Flex, their next iteration of leveraging the company's crown jewel. Flex is oriented towards application developers, and its appeal is certainly that it acts as a fairly RAD UI tool. Flex builder is based on Eclipse. That sounds great, until you look a little closer and realize that, at least in its Alpha iteration, it only runs on Windows. What? Isn't that sort of the point of Java? To run on any runtime? That's clearly a BigCo "we don't get it" decision. I would be running the IDE on my machine right now if it would run here. By the way, I am your target audience, and make platform decisions.

They didn't talk that much about "Scorpio", the codename for ColdFusion 8. They did, however, demo some cool Macromedia developed additions to CFEclipse. I was all excited about this at first. After thinking about it more in light of the above paragraph, I wonder if things like RDS support will be Windows only features when released. The file browsing that they had built, with it's cool two tabbed interface like Homesite, made me drool. That, honestly, is probably the one thing that has kept me using Homesite all this time.

There's more to talk about, obviously, like Flash 8.5, and Actionscript 3 and whatnot. I hope to get in here and add more comments as time allows today and tomorrow.

There’s not as much of it as there used to be. It happens to most guys as they get into middle age, and I have no doubt that my recession was slightly accelerated by the years of having a ponytail. Anyway, that’s not the point of this post. I have been going to the same stylist for the last four years. Before that I had this amazing Japanese woman who cut my hair. She cut my hair for two years before sadly moving to New York. Well, she didn’t move to New York sadly, I was sad that she moved. Now, four years later, I called to make an appointment to groom my shaggy hairstyle, and they informed me that my stylist no longer worked out of that salon.

I have no way of finding out where he is working now. So I made an appointment with one of the other stylists that work out of the salon. It seems odd to me though, I am not attached to the salon at all. If I knew where he went, I would go there.

My heart goes out to the folks in the states devastated right now by Katrina. I hate to bring up a political point at a time like this, but this article points out that the money slated to repair the levee in Louisiana was diverted by the Bush Administration to the war in Iraq. It’s a shame. I hope this gets out into the mainstream press.

Plans, the new Death Cab For Cutie cd due to come out in September, is the best cd release I have heard this year. (Don’t ask, I can’t tell you where it came from, and I am not passing it on.) It’s beautiful, melodic, and tugs at those heartstrings. For the electronica oriented among you, the new Kid 606 cd, Resilience, is a must buy.

Well, last week was another PGA Championship. It represents the climax of our season, and our work, every summer. I’m very proud of this site. I didn’t design it, but my team and I built virtually all the infrastructure that made it possible. We podcasted. I’m certain that is really cool, and it’s neat to see the podcast show up in the iTunes Music Store, even if it was after the event.

I can't easily explain how stressful this week is for me every year. If any of the software, or any of the servers fail, it is my responsibility, through millions of page views and thousands of updates. I enter a zone for that week that I wouldn't want to be in all the time. On Monday, when they finished the tournament due to bad weather on Sunday, I saw the single fastest minute by minute increase in traffic I've ever seen in my career. I wish I could post the graphical representation of that traffic surge here. It pushed our server farm to it's limits, we started to saturate the available pipe we had to work with, and just when it seemed like we might be in trouble, the tournament ended and the traffic subsided.

This week, I slowly emerge from the mode I was in. I'm hoping to update more here starting today. I'm hoping to see my friends more often for the rest of the summer. Finally, I am hoping to take some time off and go somewhere new and adventurous for me. The roller coaster ride is over, for this year at least.

Cam and Damien are the Blogger Twins. I’ve known these guys for a while now, and I have watched the Amazing Race religiously for the last few seasons. I think they would be great for the show, and I am not just saying that because I want to be able to say I know someone on the Race. They are quality people, and I don’t say that lightly. Here’s hoping that the producers of the show get it.

What Everyone Should Know About Blog Depression is a pdf provided as a public service to educate bloggers about the growing problem of blog depression.

Apple Mighty Mouse. Get this, it looks like a one button mouse, but it’s not a one button mouse. Designed to work with Tiger, it’s a four button. Update: Here’s a hands on review with pictures, it looks like I will be buying one of these.

MacZealots.com has a very nice list of the Top 10 Shareware Apps of 2005.

Mark Cuban puts the smack down out there with The definition of insanity.. The Music Industry. This might just be the best comprehensive review of why and how the music industry, and more specifically the RIAA, don’t seem to understand basic economics, or the model their industry is shifting to specifically.

Best of Dashboard for web developers edition lists some excellent widgets for the Web person. I have really not gotten too enamored with Dashboard. It takes forever to load. I swear I can command-tab over to my web browser and grab whatever information I am seeking faster on the Web itself. That is not to say that the potential of Dashboard is lost on me. I think I might use it more when it works well.

For one such as myself who enjoys an egg and cheese sandwich better than virtually all other foodstuffs, the Back to Basics Egg and Muffin Toaster looks like it could be the world’s most perfect kitchen appliance. I’m wondering how hard to clean this bad boy will be. Guess I have to wait until September to find out.

As usual, Lance gives excellent advice in Lance’s Guide to Man Grooming, Part 4: Clothing Optionals.

HP no longer doing the iPod thing. I have no idea what “great products” Greg is referring to that HP makes in his post. Seems to me that they don’t make high quality anything anymore. I could be wrong.