The Reality Check!

This may sound like an ITunes review, but that's okay too. People ask me what I do and I get caught up in the environment that is almost ideal. At an office that pays you (literally) for your ideas and gives you several hats (some inevitable) to try new things and gain a wealth of knowledge, it's hard to see the glass half empty at any given moment. It's like I posted in an earlier blog- it's all about the attitude. This isn't a place to have negative energy...you won't last long, but if you've got an ambitious, positive attitude, like my manager, you'll find it easy to not only gain experience like no other, but foster your own ideas (where your mistakes are celebrated and accepted)...where you're encouraged and 110% supported. Check out the new website and see if you have what we're looking for..

The website is undergoing a few final touches so please be patient as we post new and exciting information that we know you're going to want to be a part of...I assure you, this is a place to be and go for the latest information. Be it blogging, info on user groups, CFUnited conference (mingle with ColdFusion genuis'), our great job board (which we know you'll hit), or signing up for a lesson to expand what you already know- you found the right place. Check us out- www.teratech.com.

I have created a Flickr group called "ColdFusion Developers". We have different groups such as CFUnited or Fusebox etc. but having a general group would also be a good idea.

We already have a lot of photos over there and you can try to find your photo. If you know any names to go with these, try to add a note for the person. If you have other photos of CF developers, share with us.

You can reach group page via "http://www.flickr.com/groups/coldfusion/".

You are kindly invited to join our group. :)

Fed up with not being able to fit enough movies from your Tivo onto a DVD? Now instead of 5 Gigabyte on a DVD there is a 1 Terabyte (1000 Gigabyte) "DVD" made by the Israeli firm Mempile (www.mempile.com). Their "TeraDisc" (which is the same size as CDs and DVDs) holds 20 times the capacity of a dual-layer Blu-ray disc.

They use 200 5GB layers, each one only five microns apart.  Prototypes have already been made to store up to 800GB of data and Mempile says it will crack the 1TB barrier before moving on to build 5TB blue laser disks. Look out for these in 2010. 

And hey 1 TB is enough for 250,000 MP3 on one disk - that is enought space for even my complete CD collection!

PS Part of my interest is that when I created the name for TeraTech in 1991 the Tera part came from Terabyte. Back then a 10 Mb harddrive was big and cost $3000. It is amazing to see how storage has grown and price has come down!

The big brass from Adobe -- Ben Forta, Tim Buntel, and Adam Wayne Lehman -- will be at the inaugural meeting of this new user group.

The topic is Coldfusion 8 ("Scorpio").

To register, go to the website Capitol Hill User Group.

Adobe Apollo public alpha release is now at Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo).

You can reach release notes to get more information about current release.

You can download and install on your Windows or MacOSX platform.

Here are some other useful Apollo links:

Free Apollo Training From Lynda.com
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=378

Sample Applications
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Applications:Samples

Apollo Camp San Francisco
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Camp:03162007

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Books:Apollo_for_Adobe_Flex_Developers_Pocket_Guide

Apollo Forums
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=641

TeraTech won the CFDJ (ColdFusion Developers Journal) Readers Choice award for best ColdFusion consulting company world wide for the fifth year in a row. TeraTech was runner up for best training company, best product CFXGraphicsserver and best community website (CFConf). More info at http://mx.sys-con.com/read/171303_6.htm