Well it's that time again my friends. A new version of Presentation Engine is imminent. The major changes are as follows: [1] After a ten year hiatus, a forums area has been added to the Presentation Engine. It's relatively basic right now but I plan o

Those of you who know me reasonably well, know that I enjoy tinkering with old software. As a developer I've always been fascinated with the evolution of software throughout the years. As a result I tend to collect old pieces of software. However 95% o

So as most of you know, the health insurance exchanges for ACA (Affordable Care Act) went live on October 1st, 2013. Well at least in theory they did. When it comes to the exchanges states had two choices: Either implement their own exchange so that re

Within the last 24 hours, we have learned that NSA has successfully circumvented the most popular forms of encryption in use on the Internet today. This revelation not only undermines the career of people like myself, who essentially work exclusively with

In the spirit of keeping this site as cutting edge as possible - I've been toying with a responsive theme for the last month. While I have uploaded some tiny tweaks here and there over the last month as I played with various concepts - today I've gone ah

After several days of testing, bug fixing, more testing and some release preparation, the release of Presentation Engine 4.0 has become a reality! The project page for it has been updated appropriately so if you are interested, click on through and grab

While it might appear that the engine driving this site (aka PEngine) has been allowed to atrophy and die over the last few years, nothing could be further from the case. I've spent a great deal of time over the last few weeks slinging code for the upcom

For those of you not familiar with my resume, let me sum it up for you: I've been designing, developing, deploying and supporting software for 13 years. I've seen my fair share of failures but on the flip side, I've also seen more than my fair share of

So apparently there is an election where I live in Greer today. And I don't care. However when the father of one of the candidates came stumping through my neighborhood this weekend and handed me a brochure advertising his daughter's candidacy, I couldn

Well, the day has finally come. Or it came a few days ago. Well technically it came on July 13th, but wasn't announced until this Wednesday July 22nd. Windows 7 is done! And not only that, but the untouched RTM build straight from Microsoft is floating

So this weekend brings news that our wonderful government is planning on bailing out yet another bank . Really? I guess the fact that this tactic failed the first half dozen times or so doesn't mean it won't work this time around, right? Oh but wait de

As indicated in the title, the next version of the Presentation Engine application that powers this site has been released for download. The download version is Beta 1. While I was planning on not offering a public download until Beta 2, not enough chan

So ever since Tuesday, I've had some rough stomach problems. I'll spare you the sloppy details, suffice to say that I've been spending most of this week at home trying to work my way through it all. Sometime in the last few days, I found a wonderful vid