Archive for 2009 » Page 5

Using CFC inheritance we can configure a third party library like TransferSync to separate our environment from updates in the underlying library. This eliminates continual patching of the library for our environment and simplifies updates from the author.

As seen on Google: Internet Explorer 8 RC1 indicates the end of the Internet

A 2008 retrospective. A good way to feel accomplished and get excited about 2009.

Programmatically process bounced email to determine the cause of the bounce and whether or not it’s fatal. Has hundreds of bounce signatures collected over the past four years ready for use.

This slide by Adam Nash of LinkedIn via Christina that describes the skills of a successful Product Manager for a web company. It graphs what I love about my job as an entrepreneur: the opportunity to participate in many disciplines. This week I coded a major new feature, negotiated a travel [...]

The latest version of PowerNap, the ColdFusion-based REST API engine, has been released to RIAForge. 0.9 is now available with lots of new features that I helped develop.

A graphical cheat sheet for developers using Mark Mandel’s Transfer Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) onetomany, manytoone or manytomany relationships.

The overwrite option of the Ant Sync task ensures that both pushing updated builds and rolling back code will be successful.

Using the SQL EXISTS feature to more rapidly determine subquery results. Works in most databases like PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Oracle and so forth.

This picture from my 8th grade dance turned up on Facebook yesterday via a friend from grade school. I’m the short kid on the left. This is circa 1989 or so. I’m 90% sure that tie I’m wearing is a clip-on. You could barely make me wear pants instead of shorts [...]