Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
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
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
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
A couple weeks ago I posted about moving our SVN repositories to a hosted solution at CVSDude.com. I primarily wanted to do that so that I wouldn’t have to be responsible for administering the SVN server (performing backups, configuring hook scripts etc). I’ve got enough on my plate right now without trying to become an … 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
I’ve spent several hours this past weekend working on a project for a client that uses a MySQL database backend. It involves converting thousands of records from XML files exported from the legacy data system. One of the things that’s been bugging me is the process that I have to go to every time I … Read more