Random scribblings from Cliff Pearson.
ColdFusion Developer, Musician, Gadget fanatic and Geek!
As a database geek, I’ve been watching the Oracle/Sun deal with interest, as nothing concrete has been stated about MySQL’s future in this converged marketplace.
I’ve discussed this merger and what it means to MySQL with various other developers and technology consultants and there is no majority train of thought here – everyone seems to have [...]
Actually there’s nothing wrong with custom tags – I’m quite a fan and have used them quite a bit during my time as a CF developer. The problem in this particular instance is the time it’s taking to implement them.
I’m working on some code that determines the IP address of a given piece of equipment. [...]
In my latest role, as well as CF development, I have been asked to adopt more of a DBA role, as there is only one other guy here, who’s done everything for several years (so he probably has a few bad habits that I’ll need to deal with – we all do, don’t we?) and [...]
As I sit here in fog-bound, icy Brussels, looking to tomorrow, the last day on my current contract and towards Monday, when I start my next one (also in Brussels), it is with a genuine sadness that again I have to say goodbye to a group of people I’ve enjoyed working with for the past [...]
I was asked by a junior developer I’ve recently started training which tools I used regularly when developing, so I decided to document this information here, in case it’s useful to anyone else. I have lots more software installed than this, but I’m only going to concentrate on those tools I use for my development [...]
The German ColdFusion User Group proudly presents the first european ColdFusion Camp in the conference center ‘Orbis’ in Oberschleißheim near Munich.
Speakers on day one include:
Andy Allan
Mark Drew
Gert Franz
Peter Haak
Harry Klein
Luis Majano
Darren Pywell
For a fee of €35, including food, this is a steal!
Day two is given over to training and the subjects being taught are:
Advanced ColdFusion [...]
As a Mac user with clients who are Windows based, I use VMWare Fusion to host a Window XP virtual machine, primarily to enable me to run SQL Server. Until recently, this was SQL 2000, but as a project I’m currently working on uses SQL 2005, I decided to finally upgrade my VM yesterday.
Everything appeared [...]
As I recently had to implement form validation into the application I’m currently developing, I had a look around to see if there were any ‘pret a manger’ (ready to eat) libraries available which might make my life easier.
I found several blogs and forums suggesting that qForms – a JavaScript library dedicated to form validation [...]
My wife sent me a link to this hilarious video:
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
I’m sure every web developer, system admin and tech support guy will be able to relate to this.
Hi there – I’ve moved my blog to a new host and imported all my old entries into WordPress.
Everything that was here before is still here and I’ll be adding more content as time goes by.
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