I have been working hard on a new project, to be released as open source called "TaskCFC." This is a group task management system that uses ColdFusion on the back end and Flex on the front end. I am writing this since it seems there are no real easy to use/easy to customize group task mgt systems out there. Ultimately this *WILL* be integrated with FusionDox, and may be integrated with Google apps and Google App Engine.

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Here is one of several apps I have written recently that i've been meaning to put on the blog. This app shows how Flex can bridge data from multiple sources. Perform a keyword search, maybe search for an iphone, and this app will search craigslist, and show you the results displayed on a map of the city.

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I am generally NOT ok with hacking operating systems to remove software or hardware restrictions.  That being said, the Iphone Dev Team released their new pwnage 2.0 tool on sunday, after an incredible amount of hype.  I went ahead and used the tool and now my iphone is unlocked with the 2.0 firmware for use with any sim card.

Note: Links to pages that explain how to unlock your iphone are at the bottom of this post.

So, if I am against hacking hardware and software, why did I unlock my iphone?

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In a day where spam is an increasingly huge issue, I have been using Google's email which does great at spam filtering.  There is of course once major exception, and that is Russian or Cyrillic spam emails.  Google's filters don't seem to be able to block those emails, and if you have had an account as long as I have, the volume of spam is bad.  I was getting 50-100 Russian spam emails every day.

I have experimented and come up with a solution using Google's filter feature.  It has taken several tries to get the right settings to actually be effective.  Here is how to rid yourself of the bad Russian spam!

1. Log into your account in Gmail
2. In the upper right part of your screen, click on "Settings"
3. On the settings page, click on the "Filters" heading
4. Click the "Create a new filter" link
5. In the "Has the words" box, copy and past in the contents from this Microsoft Word document (I tried to paste the actual characters here, but they got all screwy)
6. Click the "Next Step" button
7. Choose how you want to handle them (I have it skip the inbox, and apply a custom label, this way I can go back and actually flag those messages as spam later)
8. Click on the "Create Filter" button to save the changes!

This has really worked well for us, eliminating about 90-95% of the Russian spam.  If you find any "tweaks" to this are effective, let me know.

Most impressive combination of technologies here.  This is a great example of pooling information together. 

http://www.housingmaps.com/