Technical Review

Back from Vacation – Creating a Photo Video

Beren Erchamion
November 28, 2010

So I’m fresh back from a weeks vacation and wondering how to easily create a cool slide show from all my photos. Creating a photo video would be very nice for family. You would think there’s a simple solution for…

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Technical Review

CTIA Fall ’09 & San Diego

Beren Erchamion
October 12, 2009

I just returned from CTIA‘s Fall 2009 conference in San Diego, CA. The event has a focus on several key area of interest for me: technology, wireless/mobile platforms, and during this conference health care. Given all that I decided to…

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La-Z-Boy’s Lazy Construction – Literally

Beren Erchamion
September 20, 2009

What guy wouldn’t jump and run to the store when their wife asks if it would be ok to have home theatre seating in their living room? Cupholders, black leather, reclining seats, and no pillows! Well I guess I’m one…

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Alfresco 3.2 – Creating a Better Collaboration Experience

Beren Erchamion
August 10, 2009

I’ve been using Alfresco for quite some time as a document management and “collaboration” platform. Alfresco works with documents as one would expect, but as a collaboration tool it lacks many of the things we would like to have. We…

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Out with the Old in with the…VirtualBox

Beren Erchamion
June 20, 2009

I’ve used VMWare on and off ever since it first came out. Both the server and workstations products revolutionized the data center and brought huge power to a developer. These days I’m back into more pure software development so a…

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10 Tools to Keep a Programmer Happy

Beren Erchamion
June 13, 2009

All programmers have their set of tools that keep them happy and moving ahead. I work with a lot of technologies: PHP, Java SE, Java ME, Drupal, Oracle, J2EE, .NET, and a few others. I get lots of questions from…

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