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Microsoft recommends Chrome to fix Hotmail issues

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:30:00 -0500

Wow.


If you happen to be one of the millions of Hotmail users who are having issues since the roll out of the new design, Microsoft has a fix for you: use Google's Chrome browser.

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?

So many choices...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:31:00 -0500

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. :)

ColdFusion Developer position at Vanderbilt

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:37:00 -0500

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

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ColdFusion job in Nashville, TN

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:48:00 -0500

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.

Upcoming CFUG meeting that you do not want to miss.

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:17:00 -0500

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.

One year old!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:00 -0500

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.

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Good developers are not talented, they just work hard.

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:31:00 -0500

This is really just a re-post of John Nunemaker's blog post on DZone.

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1 Billion Spams and counting!

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:06:00 -0500

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.

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Code Formatting problem in BlogCFC Solved!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:17:00 -0500

I finally figured out what was causing my code formatting problem in BlogCFC.

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Code Formatting problem in BlogCFC.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:23:00 -0500

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.

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Outlook Web Access kills all authenticated sessions in IE 8

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:06:00 -0500

We ran into this bug last week and it caused us enough headache that I decided to make a quick blog post about it. It seemed pretty bizarre at first, but after figuring out what was going on, I can definitely understand why it's happening, although I do consider it a bug in IE 8.

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Time to move on.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:07:00 -0500

Today is my last day of employment at Dealerskins, and Monday I will start a new job. I jokingly told everyone at Dealerskins that I as going be working at the Skynet Division of Cyberdyne Systems. While ushering in the total destruction of mankind may have its appeal to some, the truth is I'm going to work at Vanderbilt University. I'm very excited about this move and I'm definitely looking forward to it. But this decision did not come lightly as the group here at Dealerskins is top notch, and I have made quite a few friends here. However, the opportunity from Vanderbilt was one that was too good to pass up.

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Why should you use a framework?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:39:00 -0500

Several months ago I decided that I wanted to learn a CF framework and use it for an application I was working on. Not for any particular reason other than I've always heard a lot about the various frameworks and decided it was time to learn one.

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Fresh new look, same useless content.

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0500

This is just a test post to make sure I've got everything working correctly. Not only have I given my blog a fresh new look, but I've also upgraded to the latest version of BlogCFC. Now that I've got a new look for my blog, maybe it will encourage me to start blogging more.

How does caching a query inside of a CFC work?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:00 -0500

I have some confusion on caching a query from inside a component, so this post is really just a call-out to the CFML community to help me figure it out. In a nutshell, here's my question: Can you cache a query if it's in the "var" scope of a CFC? Before you answer, let me elaborate a little to explain my thoughts on the subject.

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