I read in DSL Reports that AT&T is launching U-Verse in Jacksonville.

The AT&T U-Verse website has a form that will allow you to check and see if their service is available in your neighborhood. As usual, this broadband service is not in my neighborhood.

U-Verse is AT&T's Fiber to the Curb or Fiber to the Premises service.

The Jacksonville Code Camp location has been moved to the East Pointe Church on Kernan Blvd. just north of Atlantic Blvd. The Venue change is due to Tropical Storm Fay.

The address for the East Pointe Church, 270 North Kernan Boulvard, Jacksonville, FL 32225. Please spread the word.

Today is the last day to register for Jax Code Camp. The code camp is free, and will be this Saturday. Be there or be square.

The Jacksonville Code Camp final schedule has been posted. I am giving all of my presentations in the morning in room 203.

I will be giving three presentations at the Jacksonville Code Camp this Saturday. Two of the presentations will be on Flex, and the other will be on Linq.

This years code camp will have multiple tracks covering development methodologies, .NET 3.5, Flex/Air, Java, Ruby, SQL Server. The event is free, and all you half to do sign up to attend. Tuesday is the last day to register. Here is a list of the presentations I will be giving at the code camp;

Intro to Flex/Air This presentation is a introduction to the Flex and Air technologies from Adobe.

Integrating Flex/Air with ColdFusion This is the same presentation I gave at the last JaxFusion meeting. It covers how to use server technologies with Flex/Air applications.

Linq for SQL This is the same presentation I gave at SQL Saturday earlier this year. It covers the basics on querying at database using Linq.

I tried to install the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 update, and the install failed. I did some searching, but I was not able to find anyone else who is having this problem.

I have been running the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008. When I went to run the actual SP1 installer yesterday, I got prompted to run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool.

I tried running the tool, and was prompted to locate "x64/Setup/vs_shell.msi" file on the Visual Studio installer disks. No such file exists on my original installer. The Visual Studio uninstaller does completely remove the IDE, so I am dead in the water until Microsoft Fixes this issue.

Update: I uninstalled the Visual Studio 2008 shell, and I was able to run the visual studio patch tool.

There is a giant Spider bot net based SQL Injection attack going on right now. This has personally affected some friends of mine, and I have been reading about it on the CF-Talk list.

Unfortunately, there does not seem much that can be done about it other than to try to ride the storm out. I have not seen anything in the Tech press about this yet, but they seem to be a day late and dollar short anyways.

Mercury New Media is hiring another ColdFusion developer in the Tampa Bay Area. Mercury New Media also hosts this website. Check out the Ad below.

I am a big fan of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He recently went to Comic-Con. Here is the video;

I recently received a software update for my MyGig audio navigation system in my Dodge. I am still getting used to the idea of giving my car software updates.

This was for version 3.0 of the MyGig system software. The update took about 10 minutes to install. Harmon Becker cleaned up the interface with prettier icons. There is an icon on the bottom right hand corner of the map for tracking your path.

My MyGig system has a 20 gigabyte hard drive. After the update it reset all of my phone numbers, and my paired phones. Chrysler does warn that stored numbers will be lost. I re-paired my iPhone 3G with the MyGig's bluetooth. Other than the issues with the phone, the upgrade was flawless.