The Web
How to Win More Money in the Lottery
First thing’s first. Don’t play the lottery. It’s a tax on people who are bad at math. Spend your money on something else that brightens your day, or put it in a savings account and go on a vacation every few years on what you will save. However – if you feel pressured into joining an [...]
Apache, mod_rewrite and Sexy URLs
99% of the people who visit a web site don’t care how it works, or how it was built. They don’t care if you’re using ColdFusion or PHP, and they don’t care if you’re using post or get variables. The remaining one percent comprises some techie types like me, and probably you, and some people with less than honourable intentions. [...]
A Cloudy Suggestion for Adobe
There is a lot of buzz about “The Cloud” and I think it’s warranted. Every time someone gets a CFML engine running in a cloud environment, like the recent cloud successes involving Railo and Open BlueDragon, the community gets a little more interested. I’m sure there’s a way to get ColdFusion server, in certain deployments, [...]
Don’t Host Static Assets
Bandwidth concerns for web developers used to be centered around the user. I remember making sure every page loaded no more than about 30k worth of assets, just so dial-up users could see my sites in only a few seconds. Now that most users have fast connections, and the few people using dial-up [...]