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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Reducing software defects: 10 things to keep in mind
I've been involved with software development for over 12 years now. Over that period I've been a developer, architect and a project manager in... more »
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SQL Injection Part II (Make Sure You Are Sitting Down)
Back in February I wrote a blog post on SQL Injection that included an example of how a malicious user might inject into a character field even though... more »
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Coding standards, do you use them?
Does your development environment use coding standards, particularly around variable/method/file naming?
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SvnTask - A New Ant Task for Subversion
I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple... more »
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Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison
Scalability, OS, Other uses, Resources, Price grid
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How Mylyn Changes the Way I Develop
Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways....
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Eclipse 3.4 New Project Feature (working sets)
After upgrading to the new Eclipse 3.4 Platform I am pretty excited about a couple new features. This one is more of a time saver for me and some may... more »
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Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse
Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it... more »
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Refreshing Eclipse Workspace using ANT
I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant... more »
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Cool Ant file trick and concept
I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept,... more »
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Closures for Java
Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Your MOM Is The Future Of The Web: WebNext
Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.
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ColdFusion 8-Enhancements You May Have Missed
ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release... more »
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Mach-II 1.5 Application Skeleton
I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and... more »
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How to Handle Object Composition?
Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between... more »
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Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor
I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression... more »
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Create Scalable Applications with ColdFusion Components
"This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an... more »
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Playing with jQuery - ColdFusionBloggers.org Update
A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've... more »
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VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available
We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades... more »
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Encryption of strings in Cold Fusion
Simple tutorian on CFM encryption
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Use ColdFusion? Use Java.
If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is... more »
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The Week in ColdFusion: 30 April-6 May: Is ColdFusion a programming language? blah blah blah…
There were a couple of big news items in the blogosphere this week, but making the most noise was the cf.Objective() conference. I’m not going to link... more »
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HA - Clustering ColdFusion Part 1 - Installing CF
This will be the first post in a series relating to clustering ColdFusion. In this first series of posts we will be looking at clustering CF at a... more »
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