posted by Jeremiah Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Say what you like about Charter's borderline hostile customer service, price gouging, etc, but if there's one thing that can make a man overlook a few personality flaws, it's raw speed.
Yes, I hate Charter's secret $10/month punishment fee on broadband for non-cable-subscribers, but where we live (the foothill north of LA it's going to be a long time before we see fiber reaching us) there's been nothing that can come close to coaxial broadband, and Charter is the only game in town.
But as luck would have it, Charter is not content to be the hands down winner in the speed department. They recently started promoting significantly faster packages at lower prices to their existing customers (me).
Last month I upgraded to their "
Max" offering (nominal 20Mbps Down/2Mbps Up) which turns out to be cheaper than what I was paying for the previous 10Mpbs offering, and double the nominal speed. Okay, well as we all know from the School of Hard Knocks, nominal speed is bullshit, and you're normally happy if you get close to it. Oh, really?
This afternoon I received my new
DOCSIS 3.0 router from Newegg (a
Moto Surfboard 6120). It sure makes the surcharge easier to swallow when you're getting
20% more than the nominal speed. Nice!
posted by Jeremiah Thursday, April 09, 2009
Well, today is one of my perennial exercises in patience...
posted by Jeremiah Tuesday, March 24, 2009
In case it's not obvious from the deafening silence here, I've been getting my blog on elsewhere. Check out the public Soliant blog, where the best content from our internal Confluence site eventually makes its way.
http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/
posted by Jeremiah Tuesday, November 18, 2008
It's the end of day 2 at Adobe Max, and I have not failed to be impressed. Thermo is the big noise, as expected, and has been dubbed Flash Catalyst. CS4 is pre-configured to begin leveraging the incredible decoupled round-trip work flows between visual design tools and development tools that FC promises. I only wish it wasn't "mid 2009" before we could expect to see a production version. Still happy to have my preview copy in hand.
Also being promoted is the great new component explorer, now delivered as an AIR app. And AIR deployment with 1.5 is so much slicker. Check it out:
posted by Jeremiah Friday, June 13, 2008
I presented my Atomic Context slides today in L.A. for the mother of all FileMaker developer groups,
FMDiSC.
You can get the presentation as a
PDF file (2MB),
PowerPoint slide show (2MB), or
QuickTime Movie with narration (appx 30 minutes and 140MB).
(I made the video a downloadable MOV file, rather than a Google Video or YouTube video, because it needs high resolution to be able to read the slides.)
posted by Jeremiah Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Today I presented
The Ins and Outs of FileMaker/PHP Hybrid Solutions at
php|tek in Chicago.
Here are the slides from the talk in
ppt format and in
pdf format.
The demo solution files can be found in
this zip archive. It includes the FileMaker and PHP files plus a readme file and a pdf of my slides. Enjoy.
NOTE: Full access username is "Admin" and password is blank on the downloadable demo FileMaker files.
If you want to look at a hosted version of the demo solution, you can connect to the Mac Mini in my hallway closet (be merciful!):
FileMaker Pro client "staff login" fmnet:/shn.serveftp.net/PUSD_OE_Main
Test credentials pclark:pclark
Web browser "user login"
http://shn.serveftp.netCreate your own user credentials
1 Comments:
Jeremiah-
I tweaked on your AddDollarFormat() for FMP over at briandunning.com - wasn't sure if I should upload it as a new function or send it to you. Here it is.
-Eric Ridgley
formatNumber() FileMaker Pro Function
//theNumber can be any num
//prefix can be any text string
//round_to can be any integer
Let ( [
round_to = Int(round_to);
Amount = Round ( Abs ( theNumber ) ; round_to ) ;
A = Int ( Amount ) ;
L = Length ( A ) ;
R = If ( Amount ≠ A ; Left ( amount - A & "000000000" ; round_to + 1 ) ; Left(".000000000";round_to+1 ))
] ;
Case ( theNumber < 0 ; "-" ) &
prefix &
Case (
L=15 ; Left(A;3) &","& Middle(A;4;3) &","& Middle(A;7;3) &","& Middle(A;10;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=14 ; Left(A;2) &","& Middle(A;3;3) &","& Middle(A;6;3) &","& Middle(A;9;3) &","&Right(A;3) ;
L=13 ; Left(A;1) &","& Middle(A;2;3) &","& Middle(A;5;3) &","& Middle(A;8;3) &","&Right(A;3) ;
L=12 ; Left(A;3) &","& Middle(A;4;3) &","& Middle(A;7;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=11 ; Left(A;2) &","& Middle(A;3;3) &","& Middle(A;6;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=10 ; Left(A;1) &","& Middle(A;2;3) &","& Middle(A;5;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=9 ; Left(A;3) &","& Middle(A;4;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=8 ; Left(A;2) &","& Middle(A;3;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=7 ; Left(A;1) &","& Middle(A;2;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=6 ; Left(A;3) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=5 ; Left(A;2) &","& Right(A;3) ;
L=4 ; Left(A;1) &","& Right(A;3) ;
A
) //end Case
& If(round_to=0;"";R)
) //end Let
//http://www.briandunning.com/cf/196
//modifid by Eric Ridgley, 11JAN2010
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