Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
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
I’m so pumped! I just got my registration complete for cf.Objective() in St. Paul, MN May 2-4. I also registered for the 2-day pre-conference workshop. I’ve been doing some basic work with Mach II over the last few months but want to get some in-depth knowledge of how to (correctly) build larger applications. There are … Read more
I recently decided to outsource my souce code management to CVSDude. I had been running SVN on my VPS that I have at Slicehost and that had been running okay. However, I’m only good enough at SVN administration to get the server up and running and create a few repositories and there were other things … Read more
I installed the ColdFusion 8 developer edition a few weeks ago on my MacBook Pro. I installed it as a multi-server installation pretty similar to the recommended way for installing CFMX 7. One of the differences with the installer is that CF8 asks you if you want it to auto start at boot time. Initially … Read more
You ever had one of those ‘light-bulb’ moments? I love when those come along because it usually means that something ‘clicks’ that I’ve been noodling on. Today was one of those days. The last 3 weeks, I have been working on converting a small content management application from ‘spaghetti code’ to a Mach II application. … Read more
In preparation for moving all the hobby and client preview sites that I now host from a Windows 2003 server on my DSL connection to a Fedora 6 virtual server at Slicehost, I’ve migrated my blog from BlogCFC to MachBlog 1.0. I’ve also been putting off adding posts until I got completely migrated, so that’s … Read more
Tim Buntel asked for feedback a few days ago on the “attributes” of people that develop using ColdFusion. There have been a lot of replies to his blog entry as well as some entries on other developer’s blogs answering it as well (Mark Drew and Sean Corfield to name two). To keep the trend going … Read more
I’ve been in Charlotte, NC this week for my “day” job and have been working on a side project from the hotel that involves converting a large amount of data from a, let’s just say, “non-standard” database program to MySQL. One of the tables stores information about 14,000+ legal documents that we have in PDF … Read more
The last few months I’ve been spending some time trying to get my head around some of the different ColdFusion frameworks that are floating around these days. I’ve been playing with ModelGlue:Unity (which includes ColdSpring and Reactor) and have recently begun using the cfcUnit testing framework in a project I’m working on. I have to … Read more
A few months ago at CFUnited, Intergral released FusionDebug, a plug-in for the Eclipse platform that provides interactive debugging services for ColdFusion applications. I’ve never used a debugger before (I was in the group that Charlie Arehart refers to in his Why Use FusionDebug When You Can Just Use CFDUMP? blog post. All I can … Read more