Archive for July, 2009

Hawaiian Falls

Posted: 25th July 2009 by Adam Presley in Culture: Pop and Otherwise, General

Dear Maryanne, Taylor, and Aaliyah, I just wanted to write and say that I had a really great time at Hawaiian Falls today. We swam in the pool, got wet by the giant bucket of water, and went down several big slides with fast water tubes. I know we ran out of sun screen a [...]

A question was posted on the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group today. I’m trying to parse a text file to find a particular string, then extract that string and approximately 100 characters past that. So I’ve cooked up a little code sample that uses the Java regular expressions classes. The ColdFusion regular expression methods are [...]

Free Linux and Windows Screen Sharing Software

Posted: 13th July 2009 by Adam Presley in General, Tools and Apps
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I’m a sucker for cool applications. I also am a super-sucker for FREE cool applications. I was working on some code with my friend Collin tonight and we had a need to take a look at some code together, but we aren’t anywhere near each other. To further complicate matters I’m running on Ubuntu Linux [...]

Weddings, Java, and a Good Weekend

Posted: 12th July 2009 by Adam Presley in Family, General

Quite an eventful weekend for Maryanne and I. Friday night we went out to Sonny Bryan’s in downtown Dallas for Billy’s rehearsal dinner, and at the same time to surprise Maryanne’s good friends Dana and John. We had a smashing good time and stuffed ourselves completely with good BBQ. We went home that night. Saturday [...]

One of my favorite ColdFusion bloggers, Mr. Ben Nadel, blogged the other day about creating a custom tag that would recursively traverse a ColdFusion structure and search for values that match a regular expression search criteria. I though this was a pretty cool idea and put his code in a test page to start testing [...]

In an effort to get up to speed on ColdBox, an MVC application framework for ColdFusion, I wanted to make use of the very cool code generator called Illudium PU-36. Clearly the author is a Looney Toons fan. I’ve spent the last few days getting my old Dell Inspiron 9300 running with Ubuntu Linux 9.04. [...]