Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m working on a pet project in my spare time. It uses jQuery in various places including in the site design template that I purchased to use with the site. The template uses jQuery to expand and collapse menu items in the left sidebar to show sub items … Read more
Like a lot of developers, I’ve got this pet project I’m working on in whatever spare time I can find between client engagements, home maintenance, family obligations, etc. I’m using it as an opportunity to work with some of the new features of ColdFusion 9 (ORM mainly), ColdFusion Builder Beta and features in development for … Read more
This week I was working on a proof-of-concept for a customer in which we wanted to extract attachments from a fillable PDF form after its submission. After trying the usual CFPDF tags, reading the documentation, and getting nowhere, we decided to try to attempt to use the iText PDF library for Java from within ColdFusion … 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
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
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
Most of us that have been around programming for a while have heard the arguments for separating content and layout in our applications numerous times. Likewise, most of us have nodded our heads and generally acknowledged that it’s a “good idea” or something similar. Over the last few days, it’s really hit home for me … Read more
For the past couple of months, I’ve been running my CFML server engines (yes engines, plural) on top of Tomcat on my local development environment. This offers me, as an independent developer that works on a number of different client projects, a great deal of flexibility in matching a particular client’s production configuration. Also lately, … Read more