How OO Almost Destroyed My Business
There comes a time in the history of every project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production.
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Why You Should Care About Groovy
If you know anything about me, you probably know that I'm a big fan of Groovy. But why? I've never really addressed that question head on, I don't... more »
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Groovy: The Invasion Begins
If you're a ColdFusion developer, you may want to give Groovy a test drive. Because Groovy is a dynamic language, it plays almost perfectly with CF.... more »
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La Clojure... JetBrains Strikes Back
Yesterday JetBrains has released his IntelliJ Plugin for Clojure; La Clojure And…? Since JetBrains released IntelliJ 8.0 has released some... more »
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Of Software Design, The Law of Demeter and Credit Card Companies
Now, I'm no fan of laws, so I privately refer to this as the General Guideline of Demeter, even though it doesn't sound as snappy or cool. However,... more »
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Intensive Exploration of jQuery (Video Presentation)
Nice informative video that gets non-jQuery user up to speed with what jQuery offers! Comments: "[It] literally took people foreign to jQuery from... more »
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How to View Only Pictures on Fark.com with ColdFusion
Take one part regular expressions, one part ColdFusion and one part Fark.com and you can see all the pics posted on the story comments minus all the... more »
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The Future Of ColdFusion
Steven Erat, a former Adobe employee, gives a brief history and timeline for the future of ColdFusion. He addresses some criticisms and common... more »
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Speeding Up Eclipse
So your Eclipse is sluggish, and you've tried the usual suspects: increase the heap and permgen, run -clean, close projects. You've found all the... more »
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Does It Come Down To The IDE?
In listening to people complain about different languages (MXML, AS3, Java, ColdFusion, C#, etc), most everything someone lists as what they love/hate... more »
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Why ColdFusion for Rich Internet Applications
Article describing why ColdFusion is a good fit for rich internet applications.
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Practical Refactoring
I've done a few presentations on refactoring in ColdFusion and in those presentations, I show a lot of code samples towards the end. No matter how... more »
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Why Silverlight Should Fail
Interesting argument against Silverlight
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Eclipse: Starting fresh a little less Painful
Having problems with a corrupted Eclipse instance like line number not showing up or some other funky issue and you swear you have done all the... more »
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I Finally Got Hooked on the Eclipse Kool-Aid
The Eclipse Open Source IDE coupled with the CFML plugin, CFEclipse, has been embraced by the ColdFusion community for years. All of my sites were... more »
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Ant Build Templates: Prelude
I’ve long been an Ant enthusiast and advocate for its use beyond simple Java compilation tasks. A while back, I wrote a post, available in my... more »
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My Approach to Test Driven Development Part 3 - Testing Against a Database
Confidently unit testing code that relies on a database is troublesome. There are many different approaches and many opinions on the matter. I've... more »
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Free Adobe Connect Accounts
I have been bugging Ryan Stille, Nebraska ColdFusion User Group Manager, about letting other user groups in the Omaha community (mostly Omaha Rails... more »
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Using jQuery to Scroll to the bottom of an Element
I have been working on a little AJAX application using jQuery and ColdFusion using JSON to communicate with the page through components. One of the... more »
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Quickly Understanding Selenium
Selenium is an open source, simple web site testing and automation platform. I say it's a "platform" because it can't really be classified as just a... more »
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Considerations in moving from Subversion to Git, Mercurial or another DCVS
A lot of development teams use Subversion for source control management. With Distributed Version Control Systems (DCVS) like Git, Mercurial and... more »
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Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations
"If you're still using HTML, JavaScript, complicated server deployments, and other technologies that don't "just work," try downloading the free Adobe... more »
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A year as a ColdFusion developer... now what?
What a new software developer who learned ColdFusion on his first job thinks and struggles with...
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Mylyn 3.0: Code at the Speed of Thought
Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get... more »
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Scraping Google SERPs with ColdFusion
This was my first attempt to combine regular expressions with cfhttp. It’s pretty handy once you get the hang to it, and it can be a very powerful... more »
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