Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
As I mentioned in my last post, after attending the cf.Objective() conference earlier this year, I decided that I needed to completely tear down and rebuild my local development environment. My old setup worked well enough, but there were some gotchas in the setup. So, after talking to some of the presenters and other attendees … Read more
…you forget how to get to the admin interface of your blog software to create a new post. I’ve been really horrible the last (nearly) 2 months in not blogging at all. So much has happened in that time frame that I can’t explain it all. cf.Objective() 2008 combined with the pre-conference Mach-II training is … Read more
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 Found”. Cheesy I know, but I thought it was funny when it dawned on me … Read more
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 to have their own external drives for backup. I have a MacBook Pro, we have … Read more
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 the first blog post about it. Looking back, it doesn’t seem like it’s been a … Read more
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 to apply all the business rules to the particular process. I had a couple of … Read more
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 team (University of Kentucky) take the floor. Kentucky was to play the final game of … Read more
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 my beloved Kentucky Wildcats. I’ll try to blog some photos of the next few days.
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 all the things I wanted to do with my blog. Anyway, here we are. I’ll … Read more
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 tests were running fine (and passing) yesterday when I left the office so I was … Read more