Archive for January, 2007
When in doubt
Seems as though it’s a week of re-introductions in the Coldfusion community. After Tim’s post I’d estimate I’ve read at least 10 other such descriptions. Sounds like as good a time as any to do the same!
24 years old
I live with Marilyn, my girlfriend of 11 months.
Drive a Red 2002 Mini Cooper S with a [...]
Book 3: Head First Design Patterns
Just a disclaimer for this book review. You might notice that all the reviews for books I’ve done this year have relatively high ratings. There’s a reason for this! The books I’m starting with this year are ones that I’ve been wanting to read or finish for a while and are at the top of [...]
CFEclipse 1.3 Released
For those that haven’t heard, CFEclipse 1.3 was released today, putting a rest to the seemingly endless taunting. For those unfamiliar with CFEclipse, or Eclipse in general, it’s an IDE for programming that can replace Dreamweaver, Homesite, Notepad or whatever you use to code. It’s focus is on projects rather than editing single files, which [...]
Unintended Breaks
For the last 5 days I’ve been without my main computer. I swapped the contents of two rooms here, and somehow in that process my computer stopped booting up (nothing would happen when pressing power or manually completing the “power” switch on the motherboard). This is always the most annoying problem to deal with, [...]
Want More to Read? Here’s Where to Start!
One thing I hadn’t known about until about August of last year was what a great community Coldfusion, and Adobe in general had. When It came to reading blogs I’d typically only read the ones that came up in the search results, and even then only the posts relevant to the topics at hand. In [...]
Quitting a job, but not a profession
Everyone dreams of the time when they can quit their job. If you’re lucky this rarely happens, but I can’t imagine the idea never crossing someones mind (or if so, please get me an interview there.). The concerns have been there for me since half the development team left around the beginning of last year, [...]
Prototype, That other library that everyone uses
It seems I’ve been reading mostly about jQuery lately in an attempt to make the jump, but Prototype seems to be in the headlines lately. Prototype has been in a bit of a dark age it seems. In the past year the only change I’ve heard about is the addition of the class selector, $$(). [...]
OpenID Project on RiaForge
Looks like OpenID is getting a little more attention in the Coldfusion community! There’s been a few questions about it on the CF Talk mailing list, the OpenID actionpack for Model Glue and now a RiaForge project! Dmitry Yakhnov has started an OpenID project on Riaforge containing a full OpenID consumer and an example. [...]
Book 2: Fusion Authority Quarterly Update (Summer 2006, Issue 1)
Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, Summer 2006
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The first great publication of the Fusion Authority
I have a problem with magazines and collections of short publications. Articles that aren’t immediately eye catching sometimes get skimmed over and eventually forget to follow up. I decided to use one of my 50 Books as a way of finishing up this [...]
Coldfusion Certification Testing
One of things I want to do this year is finally getting Coldfusion certified. Ben Forta’s Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide and accompaning quiz online are a great resource for preparing for this, but the test itself has a few flaws. Namely it doesn’t tell the right answer to the questions you miss! [...]
