You are probably wondering what the heck is wrong with this site, well I'm taking part of the CSS Naked Day, it's a day to promote Web Standards awareness. Click on the link to find out more about it.

Just found this neat tool for monitoring my svn repo commits, thought I'd pass it along. In the past I have used Trac's rss feed but for quick monitoring without the need to install and setup Trac, CommitMonitor does a superb job.

For more info and to download it checkout their site at http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor

Just want to quickly mention that tonight's CAPFug meeting will be the first of many that will be broadcast live using Adobe Connect.

Tonight's meeting with our special guest speakers from Adobe can be seen here:

Just a quick note that tomorrow evening, Wednesday, November 7th, the Capital Area Flex User's Group(CAPFug) will be hosting two special guest speakers from Adobe.

Danny Dura, Adobe Evangelist, will be giving an overview of Adobe AIR and Christian Cantrell, AIR Product Manager, will dive into some details with "Deconstructing AIR Applications".

The meeting will start shortly after 6:00pm here at the AboutWeb Office and as always, free pizza, sodas and snacks are provided during the social break between sessions.

We at AboutWeb are constantly looking for talented professionals that make a difference!

We are currently seeking a Web Designer with 3+ years experience developing and implementing CSS layouts and working with XHTML that also has an eye for design. Experience with a combination of the following technologies: Dreamweaver, Flash, XML, HTML and JavaScript is helpful as well. Basically, we are looking for this person to help develop the front end for a number of our ongoing projects and work with our other developers, myself included, to make sure everything comes together on the applications we’re building. Some of the work will need to follow 508 compliance regulations so experience along those lines is a plus. This position is full-time in our Rockville headquarters. There may be print work involved as well so any familiarity with logo and graphics would be helpful.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design or related field is preferred but not required.

For immediate consideration or if you have any questions please contact Jim Archy directly at 301-468-9246 x 103 or email him at jarchy@aboutweb.com.

Have you ever wondered what is really like inside Adobe Labs? With everyone distracted with MAX we had a chance to sneak through security and take this exclusive photo of what really goes on behind locked doors... let's just say these guys are working like dogs!

Not sure how many of you have seen this, it was brought to my attention by my C# loving brother in SoCal(I guess those .NET guys may get somethings right from time to time!). Musicovery is an extremely ingenious way to server up music over the web!

Simply put in what you are in the mood for and let the player pick out the music.. if you wish you can narrow you preferences by music genre and time period.

And off course.. such awesome navigation and user experience can only be flash!!!!

So as most of you have heard by now, Apollo Alpha is out. So like most of you, I went to the labs site to download this latest and greatest treat from our Adobe friends. In the process, I got this really interesting Security Warning:

So it's obvious that even if I trust adobe.com by placing them in my trusted list, Microsoft still feels that they should warn me about exposing myself to this "security risk". Corporate interest? or just coincidence? I'll let you ponder and make your own decisions...

No, not the game! Even better...

My good friend and colleague Nic Tunney has just released a really cool site, and dare I call it "tool" to show that ColdFusion is indeed a global epidemic! Check out CF Maps, here you see where ColdFusion developers and projects are throughout the world. Wanna find a buddy nearby??? This is a great tool!

I'm proud to announce that after Phill 1.0 was upgraded to Phill 1.5 (codenamed ResidentAlien) back in 1989 we have finally moved to Phill 2.0 (codenamed AmericanCitizen)!!!

My oath ceremony took place yesterday at 11:00 am in Baltimore, MD. Thanks for my family and three great friends (Nic Tunney, Scott Stroz, and Simon Horwith) for coming out and being in my cheering section (literally!!!)