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I had the pleasure of working an issue just the other day where an internal web application didn’t seem to be responding. At first I suspected some type of bug in environment configuration, or some other type of obscure thing. The app worked in other environments, so that was my first suspicion. After a bit [...]

Join me tomorrow night at the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting where Dave Shuck will be presenting a beginner’s introduction to ColdSpring and dependency injection, following by yours truly presenting Chapter 7 of the Head First Design Patterns book: Adapter and Facade patterns. There is usually food, nerds, and a chance to network and [...]

Today I’ve been working on the final bit of a PHP contract for a client where I am converting an older ASP site to PHP. This phase involves moving over the PayPal code. The API is pretty simple for PayPal actually, and involves sending a POST to a specific API with a specific format. So [...]

So my girlfriend and I were discussing some plans we’ve gotta make this year, and started talking about cool dates. You know, like 9/9/1999. The coolest one so far for this year would be 10/10/2010 (ten ten ten).

So anyone who has ever known me knows that not only am I a giant nerd, but I [...]

Last night I posted about a small, unscientific performance test of various method for dynamically invoking a method. So, for example, if you have a method name stored dynamically somewhere (like a database, or XML document) to be invoked against some component, there are a couple of ways to do it. I demonstrated that one [...]

Tonight I was working with a project that a buddy and I are doing on the side in an attempt to make money and I’m reviewing the code he’s got so far to make sure I have a good grasp on everything that’s going on. He’s built his own ColdFusion framework, and it appears pretty [...]