Justice Solutions LLC Blog

Are You Ready to Rock in Phoenix Arizona?

2008-07-08T14:08:00-07:00

A few months ago I blogged about how Phoenix was such an overlooked area for theme parks and how a new idea for a music-based theme park called Decades USA was looking to start up what I thought would be a growing trend for the state. Well I'm here to tell you...it's time to Rock n Roll. Yes, Governor Janet Napolitano signed Senate Bill 1450 into law on June 27, 2008 thus making Decades a reality at this point.

As I have noted in my previous blogs and to countless numbers of contacts in the area, this is a true turning point in history for the state of Arizona. One I am happy to have been a very very very very very very small part of just bugging so many people to sign up and spread the word of this great idea. So everyone....you can rest easy...no more requests to encourage the state legislature to sign this bill. Instead, I'm going to be annoying everyone to keep the buzz going and make Decades USA's launch so prosperous and exciting that my own relatives still in Orlando will be looking to travel here for their family vacations for many many years to come.

I encourage you to continue to visit their website at http://www.decadesusa.com and keep the buzz going. It will be a few years before it's ready to open, but these things take time and generating anticipation is just the beginning.

Now for my monthly giveaway. This month I'm giving away a $50 Outback Steakhouse gift certificate for the person who gives me the best (in my opinion...not yours...ha!!) idea for a music themed ride/attraction/show that doesn't already exist on the http://www.decadesusa.com/conceptual-overview/index.php web page.

You can post them here or email me at doug@justicesolutionsllc.com I'll only accept the first idea sent per person...so make it a good one. I'll submit all the ideas to the Decades Principals...who knows....maybe they'll like one or two of them.

And just from my days of going to law school....remember...by submitting your ideas you are doing so freely to possibly win my monthly giveaway of a $50 Outback Steakhouse Gift Certificate only and without any hope, thought, promise, possibility, or agreement to receive anything from me or the Decades park if your idea happens to become a ride someday. Ok my interior law school demons are now satisfied.

Now have fun submitting your ideas. You have all the way until July 31st...so let's see what you come up with.

Doug.

Going Green by Going Red

2008-02-17T22:00:00-07:00

I've seen about as much "going green" marketing as I think I can take...however there are a few things that we've recently been doing for some customers which actually falls into the whole less paper, less waste basket. So I thought I'd share accordingly.

If your company uses any type of printed materials for either contracts, sales orders, forms, etc. you should consider perhaps going with a more dynamic solution of taking your contracts and forms to PDF's which can be signed digitally pretty easily now, and emailed back without a single sheet of green gold being wasted.

Companies like eFax (www.efax.com) have really stepped it up and have even added a free service to their monthly subscribers by allowing them to upload and store and then use their scanned in digital signature for even more paperless processing.

ColdFusion FlashDocs/PDF
If your website or web application is ColdFusion based, you're just about as close as you can get to already having this functionality added to your system. Simply by using ColdFusion 7&8's <cfdocument> tag like the following will instantly transform your page into a PDF which can be enhanced with dynamic data from your application/forms very quickly:

<cfdocument format="pdf" name="mydocument">

<cfloop index="x" from="1" to="40">

<p>

doloras lorem upsom doloras paris hilton is my hero loreum ipsom dsoio foom an to dht end of the world

will anyone actually read this probably not but let me put more realtext in so it flows a bit nicely

<cfloop index="y" from="1" to="#randRange(1,9)#">This sentence will appear a random amount of time.</cfloop>

</p>

</cfloop>

</cfdocument>

.NET and Tall Components
If you're a .NET firm or company, there's quite a number of solutions out there for you as well. We've personally just worked on a project for Westcor Land Title www.ewestcor.com where all of their jackets and other assorted loan closing documents are generated on the fly. Thereby reducing their need to request hundreds of these jackets and documents from a printer, thus reducing paper.

For that project we worked with TallComponents www.tallcomponents.com/ to accomplish this task which really allows for quite a bit of customization even more so in some respects than Adobe's solution.

For you PHP and Ruby folks, I did find a few quick and free solutions to generate PDF's from PHP. The one that seems to be the easiest to use, but doesn't do a whole lot of fancy effects is www.fpdf.org
So you're in good shape as well.

Go Green By Going Red
So you can go a bit greener by using the "Red" logo Adobe PDF format in a host of different ways on almost every type of web programming language in use today. So save a tree...plant a PDF on your web app today.

The Valentine Day Sprint

2008-02-14T17:29:23-07:00

Ok, how many of you have been out at the store at the last minute getting those flowers for Valentine's Day, grabbed the box of chocolates, and then suddenly remembered that you needed a card as well? To top it all off you were running late in getting back to your house for that special V-Day dinner? Arrggh....panic is starting to set in.

So you quickly run down to the greeting card aisle, quickly survey the demilitarized zone of Valentine's Day cards, find one that looks nice and has words that seem appropriate and zip over to the checkout counter. Ok, we're nearly complete...but wait....we need to write something inside of the card and sign it....oh no!

So we look frantically through the glove compartment box, flip the sun visors, look in the change drawer, the middle console, under the seat, all in the hopes of finding that single writing implement that is most likely missing a cap, has a glob of ink dangling from the tip and has been severely chewed on the end so much that you could dislodge a penny from the ashtray by using it as a chisel.

This is usually the moment where for some strange reason you've luckily managed to hit all of the green lights for a change and are actually hoping for a red light for that mere 30 seconds you need to write those unending words of love and compassion that will sweep your honey right off of her feet.

Ok so you get a red light finally and then warped pen in hand you stroke those loving words on the open side of the card right on the steering wheel. However you then push too hard on the Love...Me....which of course beeps the horn at the car in front of you and awards you the friendly one finger wave from the driver ahead of you.

So you get back to the house in time to go out to dinner, you calmly stroll on into the house, flowers, chocolates, and your novelette of a Valentine's Day card in hand, and proudly give the items of your affection to your sweetheart.

She gasps for a moment, just so happy she has married a man who still likes to make Valentine's Day special...grabs the flowers, the chocolates and the card sets them down to give a very welcomed and very earned Valentine's Day smooch.

Finally without another word, she sniffs the elegant scent of the roses, mouth waters over the chocolate treats she'll be enjoying later tonight, and then opens the card...which magically says on the front....

"This Valentine's Day I wanted to say Something Special..."

and on the inside...

"You'll Do."

Funny enough...I don't think she ever read the other side of the card I wrote on. Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!