The Adobe Problem
Customer Abuse
$750 bucks bagged from my bank account, without a product I can use. My sin against the Adobe arm of the Borg: I selected the Windows version of the PhotoShop, by mistake, instead of the Macintosh version. Now, a nightmare to straighten it out. It's not like this isn t enough money to pay my rent. This is part of the Adobe Menace.
By Dan Allen

Apple Computers
Virtual Macintosh Computers for Sale
Build or buy, either way, I have to have this.
By Dan Allen and The Apple Store, Online

Race Results
ExpressionEngine Stomps danSoft
In a sudden, unexpected move, danSoft resigned the race with ExpressionEngine by EllisLab.
By Dan Allen

ExpressionEngine by EllisLab
As Good As Promised
On the brink of requesting a refund, a commitment from EE for help from one professional to another caught my eye.

I am lucky I spotted that promise, because it stopped me from cancelling, and led to a much better technical platform for content management than what I have been running up till now.
By Dan Allen

Website Platforms Head to Head
ExpressionEngine vs. danSoft
Website 1 Website 2
ExpressionEngine is awesome on the back end of content management systems (CMS). In the front end, EE delivers a blank page loaded with a high tech palette for dishing the content out from the back end. Can danSoft find a way to capitalize before the 30-day trial runs out? That is what this race is about.
By Dan Allen

Family Scenario
Stock Racing Rolls to Houston
Stock racing moved from Montpelier to Houston on January 2. Montpelier needs urgent attention. Mamie reaching out to help.
By Dan Allen

Family Scenario
Stock Racing Suspended
Unexpected private developments in Haddam, Connecticut have led to suspension of stock racing at the Montpelier Worldwide Telecommunications Super Speedway.
By Dan Allen

Race Track
Pinning Down the Stock Schedule
Sql inside
By Dan Allen

Route66MC.COM
Demo Page
Key milestone
By Dan Allen

Data Bridging

Bridges only go in difficult spots, whether the bridge is for G1 Endy racing or data streams.
Moving data from one kind of software or database to another is difficult. Paste this web page, or even just a part of it, into Word, email, Excel, or almost any other program, and most likely what you get will be wild distortions of what you are looking at now.
By Dan Allen

Oil Money
$35 Billion Profit in 3 Months
"We are better than average Americans, so we deserve to have more money."
By DemocracyNow.org

Race Track
Keeping a Valuable Website Safe
Backups are like the waste treatment plant of website infrastructure. It is a pain, but the alternative is worse.
By various

New Host
Next Steps
Rather than relying on email for a task list that is changing all the time, I am keeping the next steps and status on this page.
By Dan Allen

Slow Is Fast
Plugging Into Bedrock
Even though immediate objectives are in sight, still necessary to delay speed for infrastructure development. In this case, infrastructure is spelled F-O-R-E-I-G-N-N-E-W-S.
By Dan Allen

VTDigger Story
Smart Grid Over Broadband
Assebling the pieces slowly in the Work Queue go go go

What is AJAX Programming?
AJAX is a special program for updating parts of a webpage. The benefit is that tiny parts of a web page can display changes without re-displaying the parts of the page that have not changed. Re-display forces the internet to carry mountains of data it already has delivered. AJAX lets the internet say: "Update this one part of the webpage, and leave everything else still."

By Dan Allen

Basic Racing Skills
FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is our friend in web racing.
By Dan Allen

Ferguson and the Montpelier 650

Stephen Ferguson pays the freight, but is not allowed to drive. (Indy News Service)
Stephen Ferguson grew up near the speedway. Even though he practically owns the team, team captain, Jimmy Glass, will not let him strap-on the car for a ride.
By Tim Twinam, Montpelier Star

Lose Yourself

By Eminem

Vermont Electric Running Super High Speed Broadband
Over the next three years, Vermont's electric companies, through Velco and Vermont Transco LLC are installing super high bandwidth backbone for public use.

From the Archive
Allen's Beacon on Mount Everest Signals OK
May 8, 2008 - As weather cleared on Mount Everest, a beacon signal from Dan Allen indicates all is well.

Clear morning on Mount Everest
By Anthony Vinsensen

Email Spam Filtering
Sample solution, from the MIT Alumni Association
By MIT Alumni Association