So let's talk sessions! As in the sessions I attended at cf.Objective() not ColdFusion sessions 😉 Fair warning, I'm honest of my views, positive or negative. For the first day, I hit five sessions. The titles link to the presentation slides if they have been posted online and I could […]
I think one thing I love about web development is that I'm always learning something new! Even with my database skills, just when I think I “know it all” (HA HA HA), I learn some new trick! This week, I had to write some scripts to move some data around […]
The conference technically started May 16th with check-in followed by a reception. Check in was pretty quick – find your name on your table and then you get your “swag” bag. In this case a small blue canvas shopping bag and a sticky note pad. Yeah….the bag seemed woefully oversized […]
Our trip to cf.Objective() 2012 started on Tuesday. We arrived in Minneapolis in the early evening, and after some minor issues with SuperShuttle (i.e. the counter girl falling asleep and not telling us the driver had arrived and was waiting), we arrived at our hotel around 8. The venue for […]
Happy to say that with some wrangling, a much appreciated TASCC scholarship to cover my conference fee, and some payments from clients, both my partner (aka co-developer, bud, other half of the team, etc etc) and I were able to attend cf.Objective() 2012! We flew out of Houston on Tuesday and […]
I started redoing my main personal site, An Eclectic World, awhile ago. As in sometime in 2011, around April. The site still says a new version is coming in the Summer of 2011. Yet it still isn’t done! I’m redoing the site from its now over 7 year old PHP/MySQL […]
Ever used CFIMAGE with the “writeToBrowser” action? A nifty way to display an image you've read into memory, or maybe made with ImageNew. However, you may have found yourself looking at the source code and going ARG! when you spotted that empty alt tag. <cfset myImage = ImageNew(“”, 100, 100, […]
I've been developing ColdFusion applications for over ten years now. I wrote fairly good stuff. Some of my apps have pretty much just run since launch with no real issues. But they weren't the best they could be, because I was stuck behind the times. In the last three years […]
Since the ending of CFUnited, cf.Objective() seems to have stepped up to become the premiere ColdFusion conference. It's held each May in Minneapolis, has many of the same sponsors, and seems to be continuing to grow and expand each year. The cost is about comparable as well, at $949 for […]
When we moved over to doing all of our development using the Mach-II framework, it really forced us to separate our code into “layers”. So we have views, which display the content, listeners which tie the Mach-II framework to the rest of our application, the gateways and DAOs which interact […]