http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:11:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wonder, does anyone I know read this blog? I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is "no"-- I've never publicized it, and before today, I hadn't updated it in quite some time. I'm going to start posting a few things here and there; I'd like to ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/pardon-my-dust This quote came out on the "Thought For the Day" list a while ago and I've kept it in my inbox. I'm cleaning out my inbox, but I wanted to save this quote for posterity. As both a computer programmer and a big advocate of progressive education, I ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/quote Hey cool-- a function I wrote just got put up on cflib.org. Not that it's juried or anything, but it's still kind of neat to know that other people might get to use my code. My function uses Java to do DNS lookups from within a Coldfusion page, and ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/my-code-got-published Here's a map and photo of the Smith Memorial Playground, where I went with my family today. The playground has been around for a long time-- over 100 years in fact-- and was just rebuilt this summer. It's a unique playground-- the equipment is unusual and interesting, there's ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/smith-memorial-playground So, I just spent far too much time fooling with the Google Maps API when I should have been doing other things. Google has the best maps on the web, but their API has one crippling feature-- every API key they issue can only be used in one particular ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/mapping-apis-2 Well, in typical fashion, I started this blog and then disappeared for a couple of months. I'm not sure if anyone is reading this yet, but if so, hi. (Could you leave a comment so I know whether I'm talking to the wall or not?) I do have a few entries ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/not-much-of-a-blog I swore I was going to work today, so I am. But Pam had to do a quick service call this morning, and I had to watch the kids for a while, so I took them to the pool. Once Pam met us there, it was too late ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/summer-weekends Okay, I think this time I'm finally going to start a blog. I've held off now, for years-- I first toyed with a blog-like format for my personal web page in 1999, before the term "blog" was in common use. But I've never really wanted to commit to ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/weaving-the-web For the last few weeks, most of my energy has been involved in getting ready for the 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival. My company, TLA Entertainment Group, manages the festival for the Philadelphia Film Society. This year we decided not to use the Theatre Manager box office software that we've been ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/philadelphia-film-festival I've been doing a lot of work on building some ActiveX controls to embed in web pages. Now, this is basically a bad idea-- unless you need some kind of hardware or OS access in an intranet application. However, if you're doing this, there's some fun learning involved in Marking your control ... http://www.chaplin-loebell.com/david/activex-controls-in-web-pages