• Today is “File Not Found” Day

    Those of you in the web development industry will immediately know what I’m talking about (and maybe some of the more observant web users too). Today is April 4 or 4/04 which in web parlance means “404 – File Not…

  • Not to Sound Like an Apple “fan-boy” BUT…

    I absolutely love Time Machine with Time Capsule!  Time Machine by itself was cool enough when I was using it with an external drive on my desk. The only problem with that scenario is that everyone in our house had…

  • Today is the Anniversary of My Enlightenment

    Ok, so maybe that’s stretching it a little bit.  BUT, one year ago today I took delivery of my new Apple Macbook Pro. I continue to be just as impressed with it now as I was the day I wrote…

  • Interesting ColdFusion 8 Debugger Behavior

    I sometimes have to remind myself what a useful tool the debugger that’s built into ColdFusion 8 is. Today I was debugging a fairly involved process that I’ve been writing that uses several CFCs including on CFC that contains methods…

  • March Madness (really really mad)

    What a (long) weekend! This year, as last, my uncle and I bought tickets to the Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball tournament held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA.  Unlike last year, we didn’t get to actually see our favorite…

  • The Madness Begins

    It’s that time of year again.  College basketball is in the midst of conference tournaments before next week’s start of the NCAA tournament. I’m heading to Atlanta for the start of the Southeastern Conference men’s basketball tournament to cheer on…

  • New Platform and Design (again)

    I’ve decided to change my blog software to WordPress from MachBlog.  I know, I know, it’s heresy to use a PHP blog system for a ColdFusion guy, but I just didn’t have time to write the code in MachBlog for…

  • cfcUnit Weirdness

    I’ve just spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why my cfcUnit tests for this project I’m working on suddenly stopped working….stopped working as in DOA.  No errors, no failures, no screen output, NADA.  All the…

Dan

Geek, Tinkerer, Creator

I’m Dan. An ambivert by nature, geek by divine calling, husband to a wonderful woman, and father to three amazing kiddos. I enjoy tinkering with all sorts of automation, self-hosting / home labs, and creating stuff with lasers and 3D printers in our “maker space” with my children.

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