Drewcorp Coding and Technology

I recently upgraded my ancient Blackberry Curve 8310 with a shiny new iPhone 4. I never believed the hype about the grip of death or whatever they called it, and I’ve never had that problem so my disbelief was justified, I think. However, when I first got the phone, I activated the visual voicemail option, [...]

I must apologize profusely for leaving my tech blog unattended. 3 months with no updates is appalling to me. For the past several months, my energies have been focused on starting up my own IT Consulting business. Ironically, the more focused I’ve been creating this business, the less opportunity I’ve had to get into the [...]

I’ve been meaning to pick up a rack for my server for a while, but could never find an affordable option. I didn’t feel like spending $500 on a 4-8 unit box when I only had the one server so far. So when I came upon an ad on UsedVictoria for a 42U Server Rack [...]

I was just browsing through my last few months of posts and realized two things: 1) That I haven’t written nearly as much as I should… as usual… and 2) That I haven’t said anything about my work situation since I had a “positive” interview back in mid December. Well, let me tell you. I [...]

I recently had the pleasure of working on a particularly stubborn issue between a Windows Vista and a Windows 7 PC. I used Microsoft’s “Easy Transfer” program to capture the profiles from an older XP system, then applied it to their brand-new Windows 7 system. Easy as pie. The problem presented when I tried to [...]

I recently came across a job posting that immediately caught my attention. Not because it was a ColdFusion posting – quite the opposite in fact – but because it appeared at first to be my resume read back to me. The job was so finely tuned to my experience, I looked closer just to verify [...]

I’m still looking for any ColdFusion work at all. I had some back-and-forth with a company in the Netherlands but that fell through. And that pretty much sums up my entire list of opportunities since September. Right now I’m beginning a career in pizza delivery – a job that pays the bills for now but [...]

I hate looking for work. I know everyone does, even at the best of times. But times like these, when local jobs have polarized into high paying jobs or low paying jobs and nothing in between, and the local government (who counts for a large percentage of local jobs) has cut down its budget for [...]

I recently switched hosts to Media Temple, partly because of some service interruptions on our last host and also as a strategic manoeuvre. I can say without hesitation that this site is much zippier than before – I hope you notice as well. I mean obviously the site doesn’t do anything, but even so I [...]

I arrived in San Diego safely this afternoon after a layover in Seattle. It’s been a long day since my son decided he needed to wake up at 5:30 this morning and potty and wouldn’t return to sleep. I’m staying in a Hilton and let me tell you, the thread-count on this bed is unbelievable.  [...]