So when did American Idol start letting singers actually play instruments? I am watching for the first time this year and that Brooke White girls is pretty good. She just did Let It Be and it was awesome.

What do you think?

My friend Aaron West just got interviewed over at dzone by Dan Wilson. The topic was his TwitterAIR application that he wrote back over the summer. Aaron is the leader of the Nashville ColdFusion Group, a dang good programmer, has really nice hair and an overall cool guy.

It was asked on CFTalk the other day about how to access the header that most load balancers populate with the real IP address of a user. Due to the way that load balancers work the actual request comes from the LB and not the user themselves. To be able to know what the IP address of the user is the LB will populate an HTTP Header called "X-Forwarded-For" while the cgi.remote_addr will be the IP address of the LB. To read this information we need to use GetHttpRequestData() which will tell us what is in the header. From there we can alter the CGI so the rest of the application is aware of the correct IP address.

Here is a sample piece of code...

Hope this helps!

So I have the new MacBook all up and running and attached to my nice 20 inch Viewsonic wide screen flat panel. The problem I am running in to is I am using a Microsoft Desktop 2.0 wireless keyboard and mouse that I used with my old laptop. It is working OK but I am not real happy with the feel of the mouse and the fact I don't have certain mappings on the keyboard. I went to Mac Authority to look at my options and I would really like to go with a wireless keyboard and mouse. I like the mighty mouse just fine but what was Apple thinking with the new wireless keyboard? It is basically a freak'n MacBook keyboard with no number pad which is annoying. Bluetooth on it is nice it but my word it seems really small.

So my question is: What external keyboards do you guys use? Any 3rd party ones that work well?

Mariah Carey's new video for Touch My Body just dropped and it is hilarious!

I want to be the guy who pitched this treatment... "Ok so Geek Squad shows up at her door and then there is a unicorn and guitar hero... and then it ends with Mariah saying '802.11n'" Hot!

Last night at the Nashville Flex 3 and AIR launch event Aaron West recorded a bunch of 30onAir videos and I was one of them. Take a look below:

Web Worker Daily posed the question to it's readers "Do you care about AIR?" Lots of very interesting comments so far and it will be interesting to see how AIR unveils itself in the future. I think that we really have to come up with the killer app to get the penetration that we need. I am starting the course on Flex 3 on Lynda.com today to really start to dive in to all things Flex and see how I can use it in the applications I already develop.

The ability to deploy to the desktop is something all together new to me and will require me to rethink the way I do web applications. Forever it has been if you can do it on the desktop you can do it on the web. Now my thinking needs to be "Could this be better on the desktop as opposed to the web".

So I am going to start writing about more then just ColdFusion so I am doing a little cleanup on my RSS feeds. If you want to read my ColdFusion posts only then stay put. If you want to read my other rants from politics to technology to music, just subscribe to:

http://jeremiahx.com/feed

That should give you everything!

One of my favorite blogs OfficeSnapshots, which features photos of Internet related companies across the world, has released a new blog called... HomeOfficeSnapshots. I always love seeing how other people work in their homes and steal ideas from them.

Funny funny stuff...