Here's the full article, with links to a more detailed article.
How bad is it when the best fix for problems with one of your services is to recommend people use a competitor's product?
InfoWorld recently published an article titled Top five scripting languages on the JVM. It gives a comparison of Groovy, JRuby, Scala, Fantom, and Jython, and even winds up talking a little about Clojure, JavaFX, and NetRexx there at the end. (Thanks to John Sieber for blogging about the article, that's how I found it.) It gives a nice detailed explanation of each language and lists a few pros and cons, all without getting too technical. It's very informative and unbiased, which is a nice change from the language comparison flame wars that seem to be so prevalent today.
This is a really good article for someone like me, as I know very little about any of those languages. For a while now I've been wanting to add a new language to my utility belt, and I've been saying that I want to learn Java and Groovy. But a recent discussion I had with Sean Corfield about this had me thinking about trying out Scala instead. Now, after reading this InfoWorld article I think I'm probably going to give Scala a try. I don't know when, but when I do get around to learning a new language Scala will be at the top of my list. I still want to learn Java and Groovy, though. :)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where I work, currently has an opening for a full time mid-to-senior level ColdFusion developer. A minimum of 5 years ColdFusion experience is preferred, and Oracle database experience is highly desirable. While the posting states that a degree is required, experience may be substituted for education.
If you're in the Nashville area (or relocating here), and looking for a ColdFusion job, we'd like to hear from you. This position is onsite, for local candidates only. Sorry, no recruiters, contractors, or telecommuters.
You can view the full job description and application here
If you're in the Nashville area (or relocating here), and looking for a ColdFusion job, I have some info about a permanent position opening up. Contact me for more info.
This position is full time, onsite, for local candidates only. Sorry, no recruiters, contractors, or telecommuters.
I just saw where the Connecticut ColdFusion User Group has their next meeting coming up on Monday and I wanted to comment on the topic of that meeting, Integrating ColdFusion and BlazeDS, which will be presented by Aaron West. I have been fortunate enough to see this presentation by Aaron in person, and let me tell you, you do not want to miss it! Even if you currently have no need for BlazeDS/CF integration, you will want to see this presentation. Aaron does an excellent job of showing just how dead simple this processes is, and it really got the gears in my head turning.
Trust me, when his presentation is over you'll be thinking about all of the cool little apps you can build with this stuff.
As of today my blog is 1 year old. When I first set this thing up I didn't have a clue what I would talk about, and I still don't. But, 58 useless entries later I'm still hanging on. That averages to a little over 1 entry per week (even though I would sometimes go a month or more between entries), so I guess that's pretty good.
I've posted my current stats below if anyone is interested. I think it's pretty obvious what the top viewed post was (by a landslide!). I blame the spam-bots.
This is really just a re-post of John Nunemaker's blog post on DZone.
I received an email today from the Project Honey Pot Team announcing their latest milestone: Project Honey Pot received its 1 billionth spam message. I use Project Honey Pot, along with Akismet, for comment Spam on this blog and it works great! If you're not using these guys, you should be.
They have published some Spam statistics based off of five years worth of data. Some of the highlights include:
I finally figured out what was causing my code formatting problem in BlogCFC.
I'm not sure if this is a BlogCFC problem, a Railo problem, or maybe even a ColdFish problem, but none of my blog posts seem to retain any of the formatting in my code examples. Whenever I click "Preview" or "Save" on a new blog entry, all code formatting (indentions, tabs, spacing, etc.) is lost and every line is left aligned. It seems to remove all whitespace except for line breaks.
