• Removing Parallels hdd lock file

    Parallels crashed on me this afternoon while Windows was installing patches and rebooting. When I tried to start the system up again I kept getting this error message:

  • Technoloy Update

    reposted from my lj.

  • Railo joins Jboss. How did I miss this?

    I spend most of my days lately doing enterprise-ish type stuff in Java. Way back in the day though, my first paying programming job was writing Cold Fusion during the first dot-com upsurge. Since then I have always had a bit of a soft spot for CFML. I still think it is one of the best languages for non-pro programmers to write pages in and for professionals to do quick mock-ups with. When compared to PHP I think it is generally a better framework for prototyping and simple applications.

  • Javascript Image Morph

    I’ve been working on an image gallery and needed a way to do nice fade/morphs between a list of images for a slideshow. I used prototype and scriptalicious. Here is how I did it:

  • Simple .NET script to list all of the .swf files in a folder as XML

    Here is some handy code for if you have a bunch of .swf files and you need to get some XML to load them into flash. It should also totally be easy to change the script to list any file type you need enumerated.