Ten Years by Rev TheoryYesterday I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Dallas TechFest 2010. I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application and spicing it up incrementally using jQuery, the hottest JavaScript library around. The micro-conference; I suppose you can call it that, was a lot of fun. I attended some pretty good sessions, including MySQL [...]
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Dallas TechFest 2010
Posted: 31st July 2010 by Adam Presley in General, White and NerdyTags: Conference, programming, Technology
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Adobe Community Professional Pins Are In!
Posted: 26th July 2010 by Adam Presley in GeneralTags: ACP, ColdFusion
Sweeeet. I got home and on my keyboard is sitting a letter from Liz Frederick at Adobe. I open it up and discover that my nifty magnetic ACP pin is in there, as well as stickers! I love stickers!
Today Maryanne and I went for another round of wedding ring shopping. I am pleased to announce that we have made our final decision and rings have been purchased for both her and myself. We ended up making our purchase at Zales from the manager Chris. It was actually a really great experience working with [...]
Grouping Structures in Groovy
Posted: 10th June 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, General, GroovyTags: Development, Groovy
A useful tidbit for those interested in playing around with Groovy. I had need recently to take a structure, or more Groovy-like, a Map, and group by a particular key, and iterate over the grouped items. Turns out to be quite easy in Groovy. Let’s see an example of such a structure and how one [...]
About a week ago I moved all the code for my site onto a new VPS (Virtual Private Server) provided by 2Host.com. With their unmanaged service I get 1GB of RAM, 30GB of hard drive space, and over 9TB of bandwidth, and I get it at a great price! So far the service has been [...]
CFFringe – The Open Source and Fringe CFML Conference
Posted: 26th April 2010 by Adam Presley in GeneralAccording the the website www.cffringe.org : CFFringe is the only CFML conference focused exclusively on open source and fringe topics in CFML. If you’re interested in getting into the open source CFML engines, enhancing CFML engines through plugins or outright hacking, and socializing with people doing cutting-edge things with CFML, this is the place for [...]
A Certain Sports Company Gets a Bad Review
Posted: 26th March 2010 by Adam Presley in Culture: Pop and Otherwise, GeneralAs most of you know I tend to follow the various businesses in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex that use ColdFusion as their development platform. I came across this article the other day about one such business in the area that is not faring well with customer opinion. Hopefully this business can turn things around for [...]
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 [...]