Software Engineering It's Time to Retire Your Stand Up Meetings The vast majority of the daily scrum stand up meetings that organizations are doing are a complete waste of time.
Computers Home Lab: Automation and Backups Save the Day When bad things happen in your infrastructure, having automated recovery tools and reliable backups can turn a major headache into a minor inconvenience.
Innersource Removing "Golden Fences" From Your Engineering Organization Removing barriers between your engineering teams and using open-source methodologies can produce a happier and more productive engineering organization.
Computers Why I HomeLab My motivation for operating a "personal cloud" environment at home and automating infrastructure deployments and configurations
Leadership Scaling Software Engineering Teams Using processes and tooling often associated with open-source projects internally can lead to higher quality software and increased developer growth.
General Software Engineering – It’s All Hard There’s an inside joke among software developers that goes something like “naming things is hard.” That’s certainly true.
General Gettin' off my duff Standing some during the day (as much as I can) is better than sitting all day.
CFML Reason for the Silence Wowzers! It’s been 10 months since I create a post on my blog! There is a good reason for that, I promise. I’m obviously not a prolific blogger
General Can you be too object-oriented for your client's good? Sometimes you just have to "forget" all the OO goodness that you've learned to love over the last couple of years and go back to the "old" way of doing things in order to best service your client.
CFML How I got started in ColdFusion A tale of my journey into web development and the ColdFusion ecosystem.
General I turned 40 yesterday...Here's to the 2nd half As the title of this post suggests, I made it through what some people refer to as the "black birthday" yesterday.
CFML Automatically Encrypting and Decrypting Data with ColdFusion ORM and Annotations I'm writing an application that uses ColdFusion's ORM features heavily. Various fields in my database deal with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and need to be encrypted to meet regulatory requirements.
CFML Adding ModelGlue's Event API to ColdFusion Builder's Code Insight For the last year or so, all of my ColdFusion development projects have been built using the Model-Glue MVC framework. Over time, you get to where you know the most
General Observations of a CES Newbie – Day 2 Day two of our first trip to CES went much like day one. We walked and walked and walked! Yesterday we spent most of our day in the South Hall
General Observations of a CES Newbie - Day 1 My wife and I experienced the International Consumer Electronics Show today for the first time. The first word that comes to mind is just WOW! We saw maybe 1/4
General Merry Christmas from the Skaggs Family Here's hoping you all have a very Merry Christmas and a super New Year
CFML Converting One Company to CFML Using an OSS CFML engine There have been some lively discussions on Twitter today centered around the adoption of open source CFML engines in various types of businesses. I can't speak to any kind of
Amateur Radio Experimenting with HTML and Javascript Development in Adobe AIR This is a rather long post detailing some of the things I learned this weekend while creating my first “real” Adobe AIR application that joins my love of programming with another hobby that I have enjoyed for several years. Those of you that know
Mac Dropbox and Time Machine Don't Always Play Well Together Over the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that my hourly Time Machine backup on my Mac Pro has been backing up almost 2GB of data every time it runs. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what could be
CFML Dynamically Set ColdFusion ORM Datasource I'm a relative novice using ColdFusion's ORM features having done just one "real" project so far that took advantage of it. I'm working on an application that needs to be able to set the datasource for each request based on the URL that the
CFML Returning ColdFusion 9 ORM Objects with JSON Last week I was working on a client's project that makes heavy use of ColdFusion 9's ORM features. Everything we'd done with ORM up to that point had been going really well and I continue to be impressed by the amount of time ORM
CFML Embracing "New" in ColdFusion 9 I'm not sure how I missed this before but among the long list of things added to ColdFusion 9 is the ability to create a CFC using the "New" syntax. Up until now, to create a new object from a CFC we'd use the
CFML My ColdFusion Anniversary Well, not quite yet, but since I’m going to be out of pocket the next several days, I wanted to put this out now. Monday, March 22 will mark 10 years since I began my “journey” with ColdFusion. That day in 2000 was
General Can You Code With 9 Fingers? That’s what I’m doing today thanks to a relatively freak accident with a staple gun yesterday. I won’t bore you with the details (that would confirm what a bonehead I can be sometimes). Just suffice it to say that, it could
CFML Be Careful With the ‘local’ Scope When Migrating from CF8 to CF9 One of the really nice “fixes” included in ColdFusion 9 from a developer’s perspective is the inclusion of an implicit “local” variable scope into which variables created within the body of a <cffunction> tag are placed by default. Previously, developers had
