RE: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-02 Thread Sisk, Kris
You're not the only one. I've had the same problem trying to get a blog going. -Original Message- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:55 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: No longer unemployed... The biggest problem I have wit

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
I have thought about doing a blog, but I am too lazy for that...too much work hehehe. -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:02 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: No longer unemployed... now that's just

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
Yeah...i really enjoy the videos he posts. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:04 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: No longer unemployed... I find the format Ben Nadel uses to be most helpful as I often don't have time to

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2010-07-01 Thread Jerry Barnes
Congrats and good luck. J - Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it - Mark Twain ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amaz

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
now that's just lazy. :) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Wordpress lets you call in a blog post now ... > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox > wrote: > > > > ...bloggin from my iPhone...what will they think of next... > > > > > > ~~

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2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Wordpress lets you call in a blog post now ... That's cool. It is something I've pondered, though wouldn't use myself. But I've done a lot of VoiceXML work and it isn't that difficult once you get past the opening hurdles. I've used Voxeo

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2010-07-01 Thread Erika L. Rich
Wordpress lets you call in a blog post now ... On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > ...bloggin from my iPhone...what will they think of next... > > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://ww

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2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
speaking of blogs...I chanced up Posterous.com today. Excellent site. Post blog entries via email...photos, movies..whatever. My blogging had slowed down to a snails pace. I'd had some screenshots for an Ubuntu PV install on citrix sitting on my desktop for probably 2 months now. I emailed th

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2010-07-01 Thread Maureen
Love, love Ben. and Sean too. Learn a bunch from both of them. I'll have my blog up soon, but it will be focused more on media integration/film and video tools than specific to programming..although there will some of that as well. Music/digital editing/programming all combined. On Thu, Jul 1

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread morchella
congrats Scott! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cf

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread denstar
+1 for BenN! He actually journals. "Here's the crap I did today." with the good, the bad and the ugly. Plus other good stuff. And if I ever meet him in real life, I'm going to arm wrestle him. ;-) :DeN -- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fo

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2010-07-01 Thread denstar
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:14 PM, denstar wrote: ... >> Here's to getting healthy, so to speak. > > Great stuff, Den. I enjoy what I do and I get paid a living wage, so > I'm not exactly raging against the machine. I'm glad to hear that you >

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2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
Definitely. I have just have a difficult time making myself write that way as that isn't how I natively think. His blog is a great resource though and I love the way he puts it out there. A real inspiration. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Maureen wrote: > > I find the format Ben Nadel uses to b

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2010-07-01 Thread Maureen
I find the format Ben Nadel uses to be most helpful as I often don't have time to read lengthy articles. Little bits of wisdom, with code to show how it works. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > The biggest problem I have with the blog format is that I tend to > write full

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
The biggest problem I have with the blog format is that I tend to write full fledged articles, not short, concise bits and that takes too long, so I don't do it often, which makes me feel bad about my blog, which makes me drop my blog. Or at least that was the case the first two times I tried it.

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2010-07-01 Thread Maureen
This would be a "very good thing". On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Maybe one of these days I'll get off my > ass and start one of those blog-thingies and the Twitter what-nots and > get my tech brain dumps out there to share too.

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:14 PM, denstar wrote: > It's more Flex work and whatnot, from what I understand (assuming I'm > even in the right loop)... I've just been keeping an eye on the tweets > from the parties involved. > > Marc is a buddy, he needed to get someplace good.  I was very happy to >

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread denstar
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, denstar wrote: >>> I am happy to say that as of July 12th, I will no longer be >>> unemployed. Yesterday I received a job offer, which I accepted, with >>> Booz Allen Hamilton, working on a team with Joe Rineh

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, denstar wrote: >> I am happy to say that as of July 12th, I will no longer be >> unemployed. Yesterday I received a job offer, which I accepted, with >> Booz Allen Hamilton, working on a team with Joe Rinehart, Brian Kotek >> and Marc Esher. > > I'm so freaking hap

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread denstar
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the > Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (oddly enough the date > of my 3rd anniversary with Alagad). Well, it's not *that* odd. Three *is* the magic number. ;)

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2010-07-01 Thread Robert Munn
Great to hear! Hopefully a sign of things to come for the rest of 2010 and beyond. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > I am happy to say that as of July 12th, I will no longer be > unemployed. Yesterday I received a job offer, which I accepted, with > Booz Allen Hamilton, work

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
Congrats! Sounds like a great positon as well as a great opportunity! Eric -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:06 AM To: cf-community Subject: No longer unemployed... For those who may not have known, myself, along with

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2010-07-01 Thread Ian Skinner
On 7/1/2010 9:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > I sure do hope that this is a sign that the second half of this year > will be better than the first half. You and me both list brother. My furloughs officially ended yesterday. Here's hopin' that whatever the Governator has planned for the next year

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2010-07-01 Thread Cameron Childress
Fantastic news! I knew you'd land squarely on your feet! Congrats! -Cameron On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the > Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (oddly enough the date > of my 3rd anniversa

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm raising my coffee cup in a virtual toast to your success! On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the > Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (oddly enough the date > of my 3rd anniversary with Alag

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Congrats Scott, it seems you're in very good company. larry On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the > Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (oddly enough the date > of my 3rd anniversary with Alagad).

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2010-07-01 Thread Vivec
Awesome news! Congrats!! :-) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-commun

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2010-07-01 Thread Eric Roberts
tract crap... -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:06 AM To: cf-community Subject: No longer unemployed... For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (

Re: No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Judah McAuley
That is awesome to hear, Scott and that is a most excellent team as well. I'm sorry to hear about Alagad, but that is a quite the coup for Booze Allen Hamilton in picking you 4 up. Congrats. Judah On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > For those who may not have known, myself, a

No longer unemployed...

2010-07-01 Thread Scott Stroz
For those who may not have known, myself, along with the rest of the Alagad development team, got laid of on June 11 (oddly enough the date of my 3rd anniversary with Alagad). I am happy to say that as of July 12th, I will no longer be unemployed. Yesterday I received a job offer, which I accepte