Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
If you’ve been doing development very long, chances are you have had at least one “OH CRAP” or maybe even it’s big brother “OH S…” moments when you realized that you’d just deleted something you can’t get back, overwrote some bit of very complex code or done some similar bone-headed thing that wound up causing … Read more
A few weeks ago I read a series of articles titled “Inbox Zero – Action Based Email” on the 43Folders web site. I had been looking for a better way to keep up with all the things that I needed to do and had happened upon the Todo application for iPhone as discussed in a … Read more
I realize it’s been just over a month since the last post in this series and for that I offer my apologies. Several things, both work-related and personal have kept me very busy over the last month–hence the couple of short posts in the interim. However, I didn’t want to let this series die before … Read more
I suppose I’m terribly late in having this revelation but it dawned on me last week that the future of a lot of a significant part of what we do in our our day to lives is going to depend on “the cloud”. What do I mean by that you ask? Let me ’splain something … Read more
This is a quick post as much to remind myself the next time I need it as anything about how to start and stop MySQL from a terminal window on OS X. When you install MySQL it defaults to auto starting at login. I like to have control over when the services that I use … Read more
I try really hard to be an Apple fan-boy…I really do. I love my Macbook Pro, really like my Mac Mini and adore OS X. I even like my AppleTV units pretty well (a little less with the new GUI, but that’s another story). BUT, I’m really starting to take a very negative view of … Read more
This entry in my series detailing how I have my development environment set up will deal with databases. This is going to be a somewhat shorter post than the others simply because there isn’t as much customization to be done in this area as some of the others. For any client that I have a … Read more
I’m going to interrupt my series of posts on my local development environment with a quick post on how to add your own tools to the ColdFusion administrative web application. This is probably old news to some people, but I just had a chance to play with this a couple days ago while checking out … Read more
This installment in my series detailing how my local web development environment is set up is going to deal with my application server setup. After visiting with several folks at the cf.Objective() conference this year, I was convinced that I needed to configure my ColdFusion 8 installation in “multi-server” mode. There are a few advantages … Read more
As web developers, one of the most under-appreciated pieces of software in our arsenal is the web server software that answers the calls from the masses of visitors that want nothing more than to pour over every word and image that we put on our sites. Ok, “masses” and “pour over” may be a bit … Read more