My First Adobe Air Application

I just finished my first Adobe Air Application. It is a simple bitrate calculator. It can be downloaded and installed and will allow you to compute the size of a video file given a specific bitrate and duration (minutes, seconds, hours). You can download a copy of my Bitrate Calculator here:

Download CK's Bitrate Calculator

You will also need the Adobe Air Runtime for this to run.

Since I haven' t been able to buy a Digital Signing Certificate yet, this application will come up with a bunch of "issues", but it is a valid working program.

CCM's First Volunteer Night Results

CCM hosted the first ever Volunteer Night last night, and it was wonderful.  Inspired by conversations with Jason, I held our first volunteer night and we had 4 great volunteers come on board.  From upgrading firmware on a couple of our servers to installing some new network switches to a new Color Laser Printer being deployed, it was an all around great night.  Thanks one and all for coming and being a part of this.  We'll do this again in October.

Going 64 Bit Finally

I bit the bullet yesterday.  My laptop was due for its 4-6 month reload.  I have been a pretty die hard Windows XP man for a long time, and have had lackluster success with 32bit Vista.  I took the plunge and loaded Vista 64 Bit Business, and I have to admit... So far I am impressed.  Of course I turned all the GUI CPU sucking pretty stuff off, but so far I am truly impressed.  It is running at least as well as Windows XP did.  I will know more today when I get Visual Studio fired up and start doing some real work on this box.