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General
A little while ago I had watched a program that reflected the change towards outsourcing, and how sites like www.freelancer.com.au and www.freelancer.com are becoming increasingly ever so popular. It got me thinking that the industry that I grew up in, and love so much, just might be over charging our clients.
I had then come across another article that shifted my views, and had got me believing back to what I had always thought. It does cost us a lot of time and effort as professionals to keep up with the likes of Search Engine Optimisation, marketing a website and the technology that we use to deliver the best results for our clients.
Now when I started to see the shift by this television programme, that our potential clients and / or customers are taking, it was like can we as a professional really compete with this type of trend for cheaper development?
On the surface one would think no. And in reality you probably shouldn't either.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, Hibernate, Database, CFORM
I have been meaning to write this up for some time now, and haven't had the time to do so. One of the things that I found when learning CF-ORM for the first time, was it was very over whelming to say the least and a lot of questions would come from trying to use it.
Now 2 years down the track and I can say that there are times to use it and times not to use it, and it all boils down to whether you want the application to be scalable or you just don't care, because you know the amount of traffic will never get that high to matter.
Either way I want to touch on some things that I did discover, where I quickly changed my thinking as I went along.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, Database
In my previous blog on this I made it very simple where all the data was a duplicate, someone pinged me and asked well that is well and good. But what if there is duplicate records, with only partial duplicate records.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, Database
A little while ago I had read an interesting blog about deleting duplicate records by Kumar Shah, now he used CTE to do his magic or Common Table Expressions, but failed to understand or deliver the real magic. As you can see by the comments on his blog, others don't seem to fully understand this magic either.
The other thing to point out before I go into depth, I started using CTE's a lot more and the OVER PARTITION and have to say it is really a great thing that has been added to MS SQL 2005.
So why is so great?
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General, Windows 8
Well what can one say, it is very obvious that this release is geared to tablets and touch screens. So desktop users might be very overwhelmed to begin with, but could these users really get used to this new design and way of life for Windows.
The first thing that the user is presented with is a typical non window interface, that looks like it will be removing the windows from the product name. And the start menu seems to now be the real focus of the Operating System, rather than the desktop now.
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General
Having the time to finally sit down and seriously look into a problem I had noticed, I was able to eventually find that the problem was not what I thought it was.
For sometime now I had been noticing an ever increasing amount of forms, hanging on any website that I was working on locally. At first I had thought that the problem was with the website and began placing logging information around every line of code on the forms, only to find nothing being logged.
So as all the sites I work on are now ColdBox related sites, I had noticed that none if its logs when switched on had been occurring either, weird to say the least.
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General, Ajax, extJS, Dojo, ColdFusion 8, Coldfusion, Flex, ColdFusion 9, jQuery, Air, Javascript
I want to touch on a subject that I know that not many people actually take into consideration, and that is how to deal with errors and other problems on the server when being called by a remote client call.
I am going to state that I am defining any call made as either a web service, remote procedure call, rest calls that is either from a client like a JavaScript call or even Flash, Flex or anything else.
So how do we handle them, should we report them to the caller or should we just log the call somehow on the server.
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General, ColdFusion 9, CFORM
So today I was writing a very quick and dirty maintenance program, and came across something that has stumped me for any sort of answer. Now there isn't anything special about the code and that is why it has me stumped.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 8, ColdFusion 9
In the early nineties I had just come back from overseas, working for a games company called Probe Software, and upon returning I was looking for a new direction in life. I had an itch in Computer Aided Art and Design at that stage, and looked for a course that would offer some formal training in this area. The course was more about Graphic Design than it was about CGI as we know it, however I did as much of the course as I could before the money ran out and deferred the course.
After getting a job in the Graphic Design and Print industry for a small while, I had the opportunity to get some exposure to database driven applications at that time, developing in perl and postgress or was it informix databases on a unix system. The job was actually a newly created position for me, as I wasn't and still don't consider myself a Graphic Designer at any stretch. And the role would have included a new project that the company was working on at the time, the project was also very new and nothing like it was even on the market at that time.
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General, ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion Builder
Well it might not be, however I will say that I downloaded this and got everything setup with ease, more on that a bit later on. The one thing that I will have to note though, is how much faster this version is, and when running the 64bit version it is a bit of heaven.
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General
Well unless you have been living under a rock then you would have heard that Google, a few weeks ago launched its version of its social networking platform. In the space of a few weeks it has been reported to have reached 20 million users, which I think is a huge kick in the teeth to someone like FaceBook.
The bad thing for FaceBook is that I foresee Google doing to FaceBook, what FaceBook did to mySpace, which one would think that would have to be worrying Mark Zuckerberg.
The problem that FaceBook has at the moment is that it needs to consider the needs, not only of the normal users but those who now use it for marketing and a presence for their business, personal page or even as a business presence which surely has to be a nightmare to manage on the scale it is.
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General, Xbox 360
I hadn't played with the beast for about 6 months, and decided to jump onto my favourite game, Red Dead Redemption. Due to the lack of time the had been a system update, so I had to wait for that to get applied. And then jumped into and tried my best to be as good as I had been, in the multiplayer gang matches.
Mind you I did get my butt handed to me on a platter.
But I noticed something very interesting, the graphics on the machine had turned into a washed out colour, sort of pixelated so to speak with streaks of the colour going across the screen, hence the washed out effect.
No big deal I thought, so I switched the unit off and waited for a few minutes and switched it back on.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, Coldbox
I have been looking into a problem that I have just started noticing, and when I looked into it further I was shocked to find that under a good load on the website I was starting to get the following error.
java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.checkForComodification(AbstractList.java:372) at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.next(AbstractList.java:343)
And is related to this post I made a few days ago.
http://www.andyscott.id.au/2011/4/15/ColdBox-and-automatically-loading-interceptors-for-modules-within-your-application
The question that I have is what or how is this actually happening.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, CFORM
I discovered something very interesting the past week, that actually has me scratching my head. I had my host provider move my website over to a ColdFusion 9.01 server, so that I could use some of the new ORM features that are only available in that version.
However the hosting provider would fix the site and get it working, and then when the server was restarted, my website would no longer work again.
Then between the host and myself we have discovered an interesting problem.
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General
I apologise for this and until the hosting provider can sort out this security issue, comments are not working.
I will get an email of the details and will endeavor to add the comments as quickly as possible.
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General, ColdFusion 8, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9
One of the things that really annoys me the most when browsing a site that detects that you are on a mobile device, is the fact that most ColdFusion sites I have visited that do this, are using cflocation to redirect you to the mobile version.
The problem here is that when you browse the site in your mobile device, the first url is loaded and then redirected to a second URL. When you then try to use the back button you will end up in an endless loop here, and don't get me wrong here if you are quick enough on your mobile device to continuously hit the back button you might be luck enough to break out of the redirection loop.
If your application is using a cflocation to redirect the user, then you can be almost certain that the user will get annoyed with the site. My suggestion if you want to make your users happy to browse your mobile version, to avoid using cflocation for mobile devices.
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General
This is just a very quick post to let people know that I have decided to turn moderation for any comments off, as the blog application that I use is a hybrid of BlogCFC and my code. It was a pain in the butt to keep modifying the code for up coming releases of BlogCFC, so it hasn't been updated for awhile.
One of the problems with moderating the comments is that anybody who has subscribed, never gets an email when it has been approved. I believe Ray has fixed this, or at least he said he thought he had, just that part of the code hasn't been updated with Rays updates.
So to overcome this it was best for now to turn off the moderation, until the new website will be released. And I will deal with the crap a little later on.
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General, Flash, ColdFusion Builder
I noticed something something today that shocked me beyond belief.
For sometime now I have used an Eclipse install and have installed ColdFusion Builder 1, and now ColdFusion Builder 2 beta and got used to the long load times.
But it wasn't CFB1 or CFB2 that was at fault.
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General, ColdFusion Builder
Unless you have been living under a rock, then you would have missed that ColdFusion Builder 2 is sitting on Adobe Labs, currently sitting as a public beta.
So far I have not really seen any difference in using this product, in comparison with builder Version 1 . Now I state this in using the product to do my work, and I really don't see any difference in the way I use it. Which I believe if this is the case would the new features be worth the upgrade, the answer is maybe not for me.
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General, Coldfusion, Coldbox, MockBox
The last company I worked for was a full on Agile development company, and I had almost forgotten about this little gem until someone forwarded into my email box again.
I am sure you have all seen the same clip with different wording, and it seems no matter what the situation it is fits all, and is just as funny with different captions.
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General, ColdFusion 8, Coldfusion, Flex, ColdFusion 9, Coldbox
It seems that somewhere some how someone quoted in the ColdFusion world, what a Value Object actually is by their definition. Since then the term has taken of in the Flex world like wild fire, and yet every time I ask these people what they think a Value Object is, they actually get it so wrong that it is not funny.
Nine times out of ten when these people are asked their answer are actually describing what we call Transfer Objects, and yet how does something like this exist and yet be so far wrong in the Flex world?
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General, Coldfusion
Well I come from the old school where you define the length of the data that needs to go into that column, and yet I see that people don't adhere to this way of thinking that often. I am also more used to MS SQL and mySQL than any of the others, and I know the tools for these fairly well. And the one thing that annoys me the most when I see varchar(max) is that I don't know what you are asking from it.
In other words if you are looking at the schema, or the table in and IDE then you see straight away that the username is going to be at max 50 chars in length.
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General, ColdFusion 8, Coldfusion, Flash, ColdFusion 9, Flex, Microsoft, ColdFusion Builder, jQuery, Java, Javascript, extJS, Dojo, Railo, Coldbox, Eclipse
Today we had an interesting discussion on this very subject, now we already have one in place. Yet we have varying opinions on why we should do something, but nothing really concrete as the real truth as to why it should be this or that way. I personally have grown to love the fact that the beginning of a block is on the same line as the method, component class or loops etc. My logic behind this is that it is neater, doesn't clutter the workspace and fairly easy to read.
However my logic just doesn't end there.
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General, Coldfusion, ColdFusion 9, CFORM, Coldbox
Most people would not even know this as being a problem, and it is a problem that I seriously can't believe ColdFusion doesn't do. Anyway this is a problem that one has to be aware of, and take into consideration when designing, migrating and mixing applications.
So why is this a problem?
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General, Flash
For the last few months I was not able to install Flash Builder into any of my Eclipse instances, and today I found out why that is the case.
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General
This is just a very quick post.
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General, Coldfusion
I would dare say that the product will be release sometime around June 2010, we all know that the last public release was Beta 3. And as it hasn't reached a Release candidate as yet, it would be safe to say that it is about 4+ months away from a release.
But what will its pros and cons be upon release?
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General, Flash
Since the release of the new Apple iPad, people have continued to raise their disappointment in the fact that Flash won't run on these devices.
Are Adobe really that worried?
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General, Coldfusion
Every now and then the rumour mill starts with people saying that ColdFusion is Dead, and if Adobe has anything to say about it the application called ColdFusion will survive. Adobe has made a very committed road map to integrate a lot of their products, ColdFusion is in essence a core piece of this plan.
However there is something that we all can not ignore, and will Adobe address this or leave it by the wayside?
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General, Coldfusion
I guess by now it is very common knowledge that Adobe must be feeling embarrassed by the latest shipment of ColdFusion 9 DVD's.
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General, Ajax, Coldfusion
One of the best things that was introduced into ColdFusion was the cfAjaxProxy tag, however I would like to add that to the unwary there is a very huge gotcha. And can make for debugging a little hard.
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General, Coldfusion
It seems that an interesting debate about this within the ColdFusion community, sees that more people don't see the actual reason why it should be done.
Let me explain some more.
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General, Google Chrome
Well I think it was only a matter of time before this happened, and might push the stick right up...
Well it would be nice anyway..
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General, Ajax, Coldfusion, extJS, Javascript
I thought I would post this very quick Ajax tutorial and how easy it is to use, without using any extra frameworks or JavaScript libraries that don't already come with ColdFusion.
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General, Apple
It seems that Apple has done almost everything it can to keep this as quiet as possible, and it appear that they will even try to sue you if you accept a refund as compensation. Asking that you say nothing, or face litigation if you do.
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General, Apple
One of the things that the Windows platform has over the Apple Mac's, is that the hackers go where there is more chance to get what they need.
But is that attitude going to be something that Apple can ignore?
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General
I guess most people would have heard by now that IceTV an Australian company in Sydney, has won a case that should make the TV stations maybe wake up to the fact that they can no longer do business in the past.
Hell if anything should or could be learned by the Global Financial down turn that has transpired, the old school of thinking just doesn't work any more.
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General
The short answer is when it doesn't know how to follow new data.
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Twitter, General
It has been reported that a website called stalkdaily.com has been making the rounds.
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General, Coldfusion, OpenBD, Railo
I have kept rather on the fence for awhile on this subject for a number of reasons, one of those was I was interested to see how others would begin writing about the impact it might have on the CFML community as a whole.
The one thing that we can not argue is that the future of CFML is NOT going to die, provided that the language heads in the direction that Adobe should have been taking it 10 years ago.
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General
This is extremely good news to those of us here in Australian, and the one thing that the government should never have done in the first place when selling of the Communication company to the private sector, was to keep control of the infrastructure side of it.
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Twitter, General
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes it is just priceless.
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General, Flex, Microsoft
Well it seems that everyone is blogging how Adobe is giving away a free Flex 3 license to unemployed developers, and I am not going to jump on that same bandwagon.
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Ant, General, Coldfusion, Coldbox, Eclipse
I currently run my on a shared hosting provider and felt that it was time that I actually encrypted the source files, I added some extra logic to my Ant build.xml to take care of this and as I had used it in the past I never expected any problems with this.
However I was dead wrong with that assumption.
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General, Windows 7
When it was publically available for download I grabbed a copy as soon as I could, and installed it fairly quickly to have a look at what it was like. And to describe it as over whelming to begin with was maybe not the best way to describe it, however I never really used it for awhile.
After having a conversation with an old work colleague who has come to also love it some, I decided to begin installing some applications on it and began to use it some more.
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General, CSS
I am probably really going to be showing my age here, but when I first started programming in the days of the Commodore Vic 20 and Commodore 64. One of the things that used to blow us away was the ability to take images and parallel scroll them, back then it was a case of the wow factor as it wasn't really a big thing.
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Version Control, General, SQL Compare, Coldfusion
In my last post on Version Control Database Schema I spoke about how you can use the build.xml file to recreate you database from the generate schemas, since then I have been chatting with their Product Manager David Atkinson. One of the major problems I had with the last method was the fact that it failed with dependencies and constraints, and usually had to modify the order of the SQL files until it would not error.
David showed me something that I wasn't aware of and made it a little more automated in the process.
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Version Control, General, SQL Compare, Database
Today I am going to explain how to use Red-Gate's Compare tool to compare a database with a folder, in which you can then use to store in your version control system.
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General
This is just a very quick post to let people know that as of yesterday I have moved all my feeds over to Feed Burner, in the next few days I will be switching off the old RSS feed from the website. So what does that mean to current subscribers?
At least for the next few days nothing, however after Friday 2nd of April the old RSS feed will be removed from the website in favour of the Feed Burner. So if you have subscribed to the site with the old one, please take the time to resubscribe to the new RSS Feed.
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Twitter, General
Well this is nothing new that we haven't really know for a very long time, but what is fascinating about this story below is that it just might wake these larger corporations up some.
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General, Microsoft, Windows 7
One of the things that is sometimes hard when dealing with support, is trying to understand what the user does to create an error or problem. The hardest part for us trying to deal with these customers is always the same, trying to understand what they mean when they actually are not sure what they are trying to describe.
So that brings us to this little gem.
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General, Microsoft
This maybe old news for most, but as I really only saw it on the news today I thought I would write a quick blog about it anyway.
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General, Coldfusion, OpenBD, Railo
Well it is 12 months now since New Atlanta announced that they were open sourcing their J2EE version of BlueDragon, since then a lot of discussions on the future of their product and CFML in a whole had sparked some heated discussions since the announcement.
It was a very brave move for New Atlanta to decide to make that decision, and most people that I have spoken to over the last 12 months were under the impression that it was for selfish reasons. Since then it has been more than for selfish reasons.
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Test Driven Development, General, Coldfusion
Today I am going to touch on a subject that can all too importantly be overlooked, and regardless of whether it is open source or paid work there is an importance to releasing your code as bug free as you possibly can. I spent today trying to figure out why something that I had been using for a few years, had all of a sudden stopped working. I had patched this open source application to the newest version, which was about 5 versions ahead of what I was using.
When I began running a few tests on the patch before making it live, there was some very noticeable problems with the update. It just would no longer work in any way, and I noticed some very disturbing problems in the code that I had to ask the developer in question if they had done any testing on these changes. So without going into too much detail, I am going to use a few examples that will highlight the problem that I discovered in this case.
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IE, General, Microsoft, Windows 7
Well it seems I am on a role today with Microsoft, and after playing with Windows 7 for sometime now. I decided to migrate some settings from Vista, over to Windows 7 so that I could begin to use it more efficently.
But I discovered a flaw that made me laugh. In my previous post on the subject title, I discovered that even the most simplest of things don't get tested when streaming albums over to the Xbox 360.
Now I discovered a Windows easy transfer problem, that just makes that last statement even more so.
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General, Xbox 360
Well after having a marathon session, ripping all my cd's over to my HD to be streamed to the Xbox 360. I was annoyed to find that the Xbox 360 has a major flaw that neither the Windows Media player, nor the Playstation 3 seem to suffer from.
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General
I have to say that after watching the events unfold with the AIG debacle, I was surprised to see that the Australian Government has began to take this a bit more serious.
That's not to say that the Australian Government wasn't taking it serious, it just means that we as the public can now begin to see something happening.
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General
It was announced today that the ANZ bank will drop 500 of its back office workers in Australia and shift the jobs to India by the end of the year.
I can certainly appreciate a company wanting to save money, but not when it risks their reputation while they do it. And banks at the moment have a very bad reputation to begin with, they are organizations that exist for pure profit only. The bigger the profit the bigger the bonuses these fat cats receive.
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General
For those of you who don't live in Australia and haven't heard, we have a very large corporate company called Pacific brands. This company has got a lot of publicity all for the wrong reasons, and maybe in the long run for the right reasons as well.
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General, Microsoft, Windows 7
One of the things that has annoyed me is the attitude of the founder of Microsoft, since the begining Bill Gates has made it very public how he started Microsoft. And to this day the ramifications of this strategy, remains to be the dominating force that Microsoft now has on the market.
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General
Well its the time to be joyful, and festive. So from myself I would like to wish everyone a very merry xmas, and a happy new year.
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General
I guess by now you would guess that on a global level the world is headed for extreme trouble, the problem is the current Economic greed of all financial institutions.
Nobody can blame them for having to answer to their share holders, but that is the problem. It is becasue they do have to answer to their shareholders, when the greed factor highlights the fact that they are in it to make money and your not of any real interest.
Gone are the days when personal service, was just that personal. With the advent of computers, large corporations have laid of thousands of people and for what.
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General, Coldfusion
Well I think by now and unless you have been hiding under a rock, you would have all heard about the new IDE codenamed Bolt.
So what is Bolt, well at the moment not 100% sure. However what I can speculate on is what Adobe might have planned.
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Bitlocker, Windows Vista, General
After reading a news report, were the victim was able to help police recover his own laptop. Got me to thinking about my own security, mainly my desktop.
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General, Coldfusion
Well the title for this one was a little hard to describe, but sort of fits this.
Anyway one of the things that I have seen all too often in the mailing lists, is can I get such and such or there is a question regarding comparing a couple of products.
Don't get me wrong, if I could do it in ColdFusion I would too. But the reality is that ColdFusion really has no standard to coding, frameworks are all different so integration can always be a pain in the butt.
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General
Just a quick one, sorry to those who tried to add comments.
It was due to the fact I took out the comments and captcha support from Coldfusion, and will go back to my previous solution shortly.
If you have any problems please send and email to andrews with my domain.
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Windows Vista, Ubuntu, General, Microsoft
The answer will always be yes, provided that the HD has not been erased with security in mind.
Well a few weeks ago, I was given a laptop to use and I do not know what I did. But it refused to boot anymore, and restoring from original CD was not an option.
It appears that Windows Vista, locked the Hard drive from further use.
So what did I do!
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General, Hosting
First let me say that I am going to be extremely angry with what I write here, more out of frustration than anything else.
So feel free to read on, but please be warned.
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General
Well it has been awhile since a good johnny joke has surfaced, and this one posted on Coldfusion community list by Erica L. Walker was no exception to having a great laugh.
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General
In the last 2 years I have been wanting to make the look of my blog, to be a little more exciting than the default blog style that I used.
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General
Courtesy of Larry Lyons (CF Community) and his source, this joke was too funny not to pass on.
An evangelist and a pastor are out hunting, when suddenly, out of nowhere, a grizzly bear appears. They sprint back to their hut as fast as they can, with the bear in close pursuit. The evangelist gets there first and pulls open the door. The pastor goes hurtling inside with the bear right behind, whereupon the evangelist slams the door shut from the outside. There is an anguished cry as the pastor screams "What are you doing?" To which the evangelist replies: "I just bring them in - once they're inside, they're your responsibility!"
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General, Java
In my last post I spoke about code refactoring, I did not stop to realise that some people would not know what this means.
The question is, when do we actually stop!!
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General
This is just a short note to let people know that I will be moving my site to a new server, the main benefits I am hoping is that I can have a more stable server. Aside from the fact that I will also be running on a Coldfusion 8 Server, I can leverage of some of the new features.
Anyway, this should only be a small downtime. No delegation needs to take place, just will be down while we move the database and site.
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General
Well the time has come, most of you know that I have been talking about a product that we (Aegeon) have been working on.
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General, Coldfusion
How much longer is Adobe planning on keeping us 64bit users in suspense, I think that it is about time that they helped us out here.
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General
While reading a blog from Scott Barnes, he makes a very good point on the compelling evidence of the shift the world has taken in the last 5 years.
He questions whether we should be calling RIA, Rich Interactive Applications or Rich Internet Applications.
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General, Coldfusion
Awhile ago I made some very strong opinions against a Content Management System written in Coldfusion, and even though the developers and people who support the product are great developers. It shows a lack of foresight and direction that Open Source Software needs to adopt to survive.
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General, Microsoft
Sometimes when you take a back step to something, you usually get to see things in a different light.
Microsoft Surface
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General, Java
Well it is no surprise that while everyone was talking and focusing on the these 2 technologies, something else has slipped passed us.
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General, Coldfusion, Eclipse
Or maybe its not..
While doing some work on a project the other day, I actually hit compare against local history. Now I had see this here a number of times, only this time I clicked it by accident.
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General
Ever since reading the book when I was 10 years old, I have been fasinated by the world that J.R.R Tolkin created and when I heard about a new online game in beta for this world I signed up.
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General
I got a response from MS today on the issue I raised with them over the price difference between all the countries, it appears that unless you are in the USA everywhere else is overpriced.
Anyway here is M$'s response, followed by some comments buy me.
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General
Well I took the plunge and installed Vista on a seperate partition, and will evaluate the program till the 30 days is up.
But there is one thing that bothers me, the price of the program.
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General
I came across this link today, and I was curious enough to have a look and see what it was all about. And for thos of you who are old enough to recall then you might find this as funny as I did.
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General
Well it is that time of year again.
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General
Sometimes great talent just needs to be seen to be believed, and this guy really is great.
Video of Jerome Murat performance
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General
A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner points to three identical looking parrots on a perch and says, "the parrot on the left costs 500 dollars". "Why does the parrot cost so much," asks the man. The shop owner says, "well, the parrot knows how to use a computer".
The man then asks about the next parrot to be told that this one costs 1,000 dollars because it can do everything the other parrot can do plus it knows how to use the UNIX operating system.
Naturally, the increasingly startled man asks about the third parrot to be told that it costs 2,000 dollars. Needless to say this begs the question, "What can it do?" To which the shop owner replies, "to be honest I have never seen it do a thing, but the other two call him boss!"
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General
So I have to ask this question, and the answer is simple when it is the virus protector spreading itself.
This caused a headache that is for sure.
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General
My boss sent this onto us programmers, and I am not sure if he was trying to tell us something or not. Anyway I think it's hilariously true, as much as I don't want to admit it:-)
20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
1. "It works on my machine"
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We live in a world of open source or freeware.
Freeware they still expect you to pay at some point if you liekj what you like, although not a strict policy of forcing this. Open source, it is 100% free and open to bugs and such but can be easily updated or fixed by you or I and made as a contribution to the open source product.
I have been a long time Symantec user, was blind to the fact that their antivirus and firewalls where top notch, which I will say they are but to drag the performance of the computer down is no longer acceptable to me.
So when my subscription expired I went looking.
And I came across these guys, Comodo these guys have a range of products that are free.
An why is it that they are free?
These guys sell certificates for the internet, and to make themselves more aware in the market place they took a stance that many would not think off. Lets offer free a virus protector and firewall etc., and let me tell you this.
I have been around firewalls a long time, and nothing has ver come to this when it comes to software firewalls. It can give you the piece of mind you are looking for. So give it a try, and see for yourself.
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I had been planning to start doing a bit more ajax blogs on using dojo, but due to some time constraints and going live with a website this week, my time has been a bit limited.
Anyway I still plan to write up some articles on dojo, and how you can fit it into Coldfusion as well.
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This morning I received an email, that showed a very talented 11 year old singer.
Now I have recieved another with something that made me really stand up and laugh, this was absolutely brilliant. I want to know how this guy did this, it left me speechless.
The Real Life Godzilla
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I am really speechless with this girl, at 11 years old she sings like she has been singing for years.
I will leave you to make up your mind.
Amazing 11 year old singer
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