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. [...]
This is for Mac people only – sorry Windows friends. I’ve been looking for this for a while. Now, I’m pretty hard core, but I’m not hard-core enough to use the command line for all my interactions with MySQL. If you’ve been using the MySQL Query Browser that can be downloaded form mysql.org, you probably know that it will crash if you breathe on it. I’ve looked at a few of the clients that have come out for MySQL, but none have made me want to shell out money to replace what I had.
I read a really cool book recently. OK, I listened to it. I’ve recently discovered audio books, which are an awesome to be able to read during a commute, or in my case, while painting the house. The book is Brain Rules by John Medina. It’s a great introduction to the way the human brain [...]
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, [...]
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 are used [...]
I play a little football in my spare time. It’s not hard core. In fact, it’s co-ed flag football, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun, good exercise, and surprisingly dangerous.
Just like with any group I’m involved with, I see the benefit of getting a website up. In this case, Excel spreadsheets were being emailed around to a couple hundred people just to get the schedule and stats distributed. A simple website would solve this. It didn’t take long to get a quick site thrown together with our schedule, game results, individual stats, and a few photos.
But then I got ambitious. Keep Reading