In the course of developing a good, secure, well functioning web application, you will inevitable spend quite a few lines of codes validating input so that you know it's meeting whatever business rules/logic may apply. ColdFusion has quite a few functions to help with validations, including the IsValid function, which […]
Back in November, during National Novel Writing Month, I purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking to use for dictating my novels and other writing. I got version 11 because Amazon.com had it for a great price. As a side note, I later picked up version 12 as a raffle prize for our TGIO […]
One area I'm a little weak on, database wise, is in dealing with stored procedures, prepared statements, etc. Primarily because we've never really had apps before that were at the level of us thinking about them or really needing them. However, I'm now working on an application where using a […]
Recently we had a scare at work, and were told that we will lose our jobs very soon. Fortunately it was a false alarm but still we lived 24 hours without fear. The same week I had a younger person I knew ask me what I thought about web development […]
I have to say there's at least one great thing about iPad apps at least once done by companies that are still around, and that is the updated quickly. Case in point, since my last post Google Drive has updated its iPad app. I'm happy to say the with the […]
I recently acquired an iPad. That's right this old-style girl is now in the “modern age” of computing and I'm already addicted to it. To the point that if I had to return it to my workplace or if it broke and the office wouldn't replace it, I would actually […]
On install, MySQL has its default storage engine set to MyISAM. It's heavily used, but IMHO, a bad engine to use for most applications. MySQL does offer a variety of other engines, including Memory, Merge, Archive, Federated, and of course InnoDB. They each have their uses and their pros and […]
If you're blessed (or rich) enough to have your own servers, using frameworks like Mach-II is pretty easy. Pop it on the server, do a mapping, good to go for all your sites. In a shared hosting environment, however, you will find there are some quirks and gotchas to using […]
The final day of cf.Objective() 2012 offers five slots of sessions plus the closing remarks. Often times with conferences, it feels like the last day gets a bit of the shaft, with the least favorite sessions pushed there because so many folks bail out before the conference ends. I was […]
The second day of cf.Objective() 2012 is the big day for sessions, with six slots of sessions spanning from 9-5, followed by a dinner break and the birds of a feather (BoF) stuff. I'll go ahead and note, we didn't go to any of the BoF stuff. I'm not a […]