My friend, Chris Gay, is a finalist in the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge with his company, MileMeter. I love the concept of only paying for the auto insurance I am going to use. Both my wife and I work out of the home and therefore our cars sit in the garage alot. But I still have to pay the same rates as my neighbors who drive to downtown Dallas everyday. For both cars!

So now I urge you to go and vote for Chris and MileMeter.

I went to the Dallas DemoCamp2 on Monday night to check out some of the latest offerings from North Texas entrepreneurs. And there was quite a showing with 6 presentations and at least 25 people in attendance.

What I love about DemoCamp is the format. You get 15 minutes for the entire presentation. And that is broken down into 10 minutes for for the demonstration and 5 minutes for questions and answers. With this format you aren’t intimidated by amount of time to fill. Almost anyone can talk for 10 minutes about their project that is the “next big thing.”

Check out the photos and be sure to make it out for Dallas DemoCamp3. Who knows, I might even have a project or two to show off.

It finally happened. McKinney Station got a blog! Right now there is not much here, but should be changing very soon. I have all sorts of articles in my head wanting, no, demanding to get out. Thoughts on web applications, Ruby, Rails, Java, xHTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

Check back soon for my latest thoughts and ideas. Welcome to the Station, this train is about the leave.