Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
I’m so looking forward to heading out to the 360|iDev conference in Denver in a couple of weeks (Sept 27-30). This will be my first foray in to the world of Apple Development and I’m really excited. ColdFusion is the technology that puts a roof over my head and is like that best friend that … Read more
For the last few months, I’ve had this idea that I wanted to try a linux desktop machine as my main development computer for a while. With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 in April, I decided to put together a machine and give it a try. Unfortunately, I had to wait a while in order … Read more
Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the creativity of the planning committee, … Read more
I am super excited to announce that I’ve been selected to present a session at the CF in NC conference in Raleigh, NC in October. This will be my first time presenting to a conference setting and I am really looking forward to the experience. Just last week I gave my first ever technical presentation … Read more
Last week I gave a presentation to the CFMeetup group showing how I use Eclipse and Tomcat to develop CFML applications across any of the current CFML engines (if you missed it and are interested, here is the link to the [meeting recording][1]). One of the aspects of my environment that we didn’t have time … Read more
Charlie Arehart posted this to the CFMeetup site this morning so I thought I’d announce it here too. I will be speaking to the CFMeetup group on Thursday, August 20th at 12:00pm ET. We are going to be talking about one way to set up a development environment for ColdFusion application development that will use … Read more
In response to a call for opinions on NAS devices by Dan Wilson, Oğuz Demirkapi and I exchanged a few tweets regarding RAID and backups and how we each use them to try to ensure we don’t experience any data loss. It’s hard to explain this type of setup in 140 character chunks, so I … Read more
I ran into a situation this week while working on a MachII project I’m doing with my brother that I’m sure many of you have encountered before. We have our view pages broken up into small chunks that we render inside a “pod-like” layout on the screen. Many of these view pages are using a … Read more
The title alone may offend some folks that read this post, but, please, hear me out before you close the browser window and go away muttering “this guy has no idea what he’s talking about”. I was talking to a developer friend of mine today and he made the statement “there is no such thing … Read more
For the last 5 weeks, I’ve been working on a proof-of-concept application for a client using ModelGlue Gesture. This was my first “real” experience with ModelGlue. My only other exposure to ModelGlue came from watching a Breeze (as it was called then) session from Joe Rinehart where he built an entire blogging application in 7 … Read more