Mike Benner

Were We Born This Good?

Jul 9 by Michael Benner

I overheard something today that made me think. It was an experienced and successful developer ripping on cheap and sloppy Craigslist developers. Now, I know I have done it and many people I respect in the industry comment under their breath about projects that are "picking up garbage" created by inferior developers. But today for some reason (maybe the clarity that comes with the lack of sleep) it hit me,

TweetDeck, The Next Step In My Twitter Addiction

Jul 4 by Michael Benner

TweetDeck has entered public beta (link at the bottom) and you should run out and get it ASAP.

I have become addicted to Twitter. TwitterCFC (by Andy Jarrett), Twhirl, Twinkle and now TweetDeck. I use TwitterCFC for several Coldfusion projects and thought about building an air client, but I have no need. Iain Dodsworth has built TweetDeck that meets and exceeds my expectations for overall feature set.

I have started using Twitter for light messaging on our Intranet.

Settling In And Getting Back To Work

Jun 28 by Michael Benner

So this site has been dark lately and for that I apologize. Between moving cross country and changing jobs I have put this to the side. But as my schedule gets somewhat normal, it is time to start writing again.

Here is the update. I now live in Scottsdale and work for pipelinesuite.com and onlinelogix but now have begun full time at Precision Component Systems, LLC. This new position puts me at the head of a project that I like to think of as Facebook meets BrightKite meets match.com of the Engineered Wood Industry. While I can't disclose to much information at this point in time, it will enable me to post some very cool code samples and concepts. The application is going to be built on ColdBox 2.6 and will use jQuery and/or Flex 3 where appropriate.

Anyway, I am off to enjoy the weekend with my family, I will post my jQuery experience from the last week tomorrow night, until then enjoy your weekend.