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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Nerdiest programming language ever!
Posted: 9th November 2009 by Adam Presley in DevelopmentTags: fun, programming
Ok, this programming language I stumbled across has to be the nerdiest programming language ever conceived, sober or drunk! The creators of this language believe that humble whitespace characters have received a bad wrap, and as such pay homage to the lowest common characters, whitespace. For the nerdy programmer types such as myself, check it [...]
Regular Expressions – Commas at the Beginning of Column Names
Posted: 6th April 2009 by Adam Presley in Development, RegexTags: programming, Regex
If you’ve worked with a lot of inline SQL like I have over the years you’ve probably discovered quickly that as you have to add more columns to your query, especially columns that are only added on a dynamic condition, it can be easy to mangle up your commas. Here’s an example of a common [...]
ColdFusion Challenge: Footprint Optimization
Posted: 27th February 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, DevelopmentTags: Code Challenge, ColdFusion, programming
The heat is on! (note actually, I’m freezing right now, our office air is on, and it’s 50 degrees outside). But I digress… The HEAT IS ON! I have initiated a code challenge at work this week. I work for a software company in Dallas that is in the medical field, and I serve as [...]
Using ANT to Automate A Build
Posted: 14th January 2009 by Adam Presley in DevelopmentTags: ANT, programming
Last night I attended the Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting held at the Paladin Consulting offices, lead here locally by Dave Shuck. There were three presentations scheduled, though one was cancelled last minute, so we only got two. Although both presentation were good the one I got the most use of our was Dave [...]