If I haven’t already run you down in the street and yammered your ear off Todoist.com, then let me introduce you.

For years I’ve been searching for the perfect task management tool. I’ve tried all the standards, from Bugzilla to Remember the Milk but I always ended up back with Notepad.

My .txt wasn’t available from ‘the cloud’, no logical groups or filtering, and there’s no notion history. However, Notepad is FLEXIBLE! I can add, organize and reorganize my tasks however I want, whenever I want. Crazy, eh?

Enter Todoist

Todoist.com has a lot of the same features as the other tools, but it let me do things MY way! I can label, tree, sort and re-sort to my hearts content. It’s got quick and natural keyboard short-cuts, cool date-parsing date boxes, a full history, the data are fully exportable and the the price is right at $3 a month! The site even has instructional videos for getting over the short learning curve.

Don't want to forget about lunch!

Oh, and plug-ins. I use the iGoogle Gadget, FireFox plug-in, and it looks great on my beloved phone. If only there were a Thunderbird plug-in, then I might just burst into flames. Flames of affection.

And the best part, despite the plethora of features, Todoist has a fast, intuitive and SIMPLE interface. It gets out of the way and lets me track my tasks how I want to. In this age of opinionated software, it’s refreshing for a software product to work for me, instead of against me.

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A few months ago, Dr. Paul Dyer came to us with an idea for a site to help promote and educate users on his Sacred Path, Joyful Journey process. After some initial discovery, it was decided we’d start with a relatively straightforward WordPress blog site. This site would allow Paul to share thoughts, ideas and resources while encouraging discussion from the user community.

Since that time the site has evolved into a comprehensive resource for people to find true meaning and happiness in their lives, and Caxiam Group’s relationship with Paul has evolved into that of a true friend to the team. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with Paul, and are proud to present some of the results of our relationship. Continue Reading “Introducing PaulDyer.com”

One of the many hats I wear at Caxiam Group is documenting client processes and translating those into logical structures that we can turn into web application magic.  While I never tend to write any code (it makes the programmers nervous) I do my best to provide them with the best representation of how a proposed system of application feature should work and/or look.  What better to do that with than a picture?

Continue Reading “Wireframing – Finding the Right Tool for the Job”

At Caxiam Group, we’re always fighting to keep up with latest and greatest in the ever turbulent Tech World. Never one to pass up a conference, you can find me comparing notes with our .NET digital neighbors this weekend at the 2010 Orlando .NET Code Camp!

There are so many good presentations, from cloud computing to mobile development, that I finally had to set up a jump to conclusions mat to make my final decisions.

Here are the results:

So if you’re at the event, come on up and say hello!

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I was trying to install ColdFusion 9 on a Linux server and received this error:

Launching installer...

./ColdFusion_9_WWE_linux64.bin: line 2468: /tmp/install.dir.8076/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Permission denied
./ColdFusion_9_WWE_linux64.bin: line 2468: /tmp/install.dir.8076/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Success

Turns out that the hosting provider set up the /tmp directory to mount “noexec” as a security precaution.

To get around this I could remount the /tmp dir with exec turned on, or I could change the temp directory that the installer uses. That second option seemed like the better solution, but it took a bit of research to figure out how to do it.

Since the ColdFusion installer uses InstallAnywhere, we can set the IATEMPDIR environment variable:

mkdir /root/cf9_install
export IATEMPDIR=/root/cf9_install


You’ll need to do the same thing to run the uninstaller.