Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
Technically, automation actually broke the day first, but if it weren’t for the automation and backups, I would have been in a world of hurt. Let me explain. I currently have a Docker Swarm consisting of 6 Ubuntu server VMs spread over 2 physical Dell servers. This is my “production” cluster that run things that … Read more
I’ve been a geek for the vast majority of my life. My family got our first computer when I was 13 (a Commodore 64 to date myself). I started my “programming” journey by typing in pages and pages of code from the C64 magazine. Along the way I learned how to debug what I’d typed … Read more
There have been some lively discussions on Twitter today centered around the adoption of open source CFML engines in various types of businesses. I can’t speak to any kind of trends anywhere, but I wanted to share my experience with a project I was involved in last year that used Railo as the CMFL engine. … Read more
As web developers one of the most frequent things we’re tasked with building is some sort of form to capture data from our visitors. As we’ve all learned (some of us the hard way), putting a form out there and trusting that our visitors will use it exactly the way we design it every time … Read more