Programming
A New Look at Development
One thing on my mind more and more recently was the idea of getting a job in what I do during my part time. While working at Westgate much of my spare time at home I’d been slowly learning Ruby on Rails, and liking the core concepts as well as the Ruby language in general. [...]
Design Books for Developers
Designing the Obvious is a book I ran into at Books a Million a few months ago. Usually when I head out to bookstores I grab a handful of books and end up scanning over them for tips, maybe reading a few relevant chapters, then putting it back. Very rarely do I end up reading [...]
@BarCampOrlando Rundown!
No one is going to debate the fact that BarCampOrlando lived up to it’s namesake this time around (ok, so there wasn’t much Foo there, but details deails). Both venues for the event, Slingapours and One Eyed Jacks, had plenty of room for the events with room to spare. Power via extension cords and squid [...]
Acts_as_conference Wrap Up
Ruby on Rails developers in Orlando had a treat this past weekend with Acts_as_conference taking place right in our own backyard. Aside from Bar Camp Orlando, we’ve been light on the large-scale, on the cheap conferences. Acts_as_conference was a well deserved $100, for which attendees got 2 days of presentations, snacks, breakfast and a rare [...]
Rails Plugins Recommendations
One of the niceties about working with Rails is how most plugins just work. Since plugins are tied to the framework, and just about everyone that works for web development uses Ruby, it gives a huge base of helpers and code to get you started unlike anything I’ve seen — outside of Java. ColdFusion has [...]
What is Your Favorite Text Editor?
For as long as I’ve had a job doing web programming work I’ve used Eclipse for development. For total features it’s hard to beat. Since it’s Java based it runs on all platforms, has ant and script integration and CF Eclipse for ColdFusion development. Depending on where you work a lot of this might be [...]
Adobe Air and Twitter Presentation at Adogo
If you’re in Orlando next Tuesday, think about coming down to Devry for our monthly Adogo user group meeting. We have two presentations planned for the day, one on Continuous Integration using Cruise Control presented by Ryan Miller which I’m looking forward to. Ryan and his team are using CI when developing their ColdFusion and [...]
Adogo Meeting Next Tuesday
If you’re in or around Orlando, you should try to come out to the 2nd Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando meeting this coming Tuesday, September 4th. I’ll be giving a short talk on ColdCourse, while Brian LeGros will be giving a talk on Common Revision Control Practices with Subversion. We use Subversion with quite a [...]
How Do You Create and Populate Your Database?
Getting a database setup and populated with some sample data is almost inevitably one of the first things to happen once development on a project begins. Even still I don’t know of any good way to set this up in ColdFusion. Basically there needs to be a way of creating your database as code so [...]
Time to Drop IE 6?
I’m curious if anyone has had a chance to drop IE 6? I’d love to get away from it for the redesign of this site, but unfortunately that browser still accounts for 15% of hits here. While the thought of making a statement and redirecting to a “Download Firefox!” page when it’s hit in IE [...]
