The CF Blogsphere

Business Service Management: Aligning Business & IT

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:45:00 EDT

The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstrong, Tom Bishop, Malcolm Fry, Israel Gat, Peter McGarahan, Richard Ptak, and Ken Turbitt. And that's just for the launch. Bill is recruiting more experts even as I write this. I'd like to get David Williams from Gartner and Jean-Pierre Garbani from Forrester involved as well, but they're behind the iron walls of the analyst-dom.

Thinking of Flex in London

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

I try to go easy on frameworks in the classroom, because there could be lots of non-technical reasons for adopting this or that framework. I also know that people who created frameworks are seasoned developers with their vision of how things should be done. No disrespect here. But if they have their vision and are not afraid to promote, I am entitled to have mine, don’t I?

Will Adobe's 'Strobe' Light up Custom Media Player Development?

Fri, 15 May 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobes quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t...

Responding to the "Adobe Flex Shortcomings" Java Blog

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Vectors supporting types are the part of next release - and are billed more of performance/coding help then language enhancement. Most of the Java 5 constructs are not really applicable to ActionScript 3 - for fair comparison you need to use Java 7/8 with dynamic scripting language support - and then the way you speak that language changes. Compare how enum support evolved in Java over the years - starting with patterns - and you would think of language as of evolving environment. I was coming to Java in '97 from C++ and I thought of it as a very poor language. 10 years made it almost tolerable - but I still miss ability to redefine operators - does it really matter to anyone who never did it in first place?

ColdFusion Frameworks: ColdBox 2.0.3 Released

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:15:00 EDT

This release is the first one to include contributed content from Rob Gonda, Tom de Manincor, Brian LeGros, Sana Ullah and Aaron Roberson. The ColdBox Team and contributors are growing. So enjoy this release. The ColdBox website is also being renovated and will be launched soon. Development is now strong for version 2.1.0 and we have some extraordinary features coming your way. So please show your support and God Bless.

Handling 404 Errors for a Migrated Blog

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:00:00 EDT

I just transitioned my blog in two huge ways: (a) I reassigned it to a different domain name, and (b) I changed the blogging engine I was using, which incidentally used a file organization structure that's incompatible with my new engine.

Blogging & Development Perspectives

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:45:00 EDT

With the proliferation of many respected developers in the ColdFusion community sharing their experiences and knowledge by blogging, we've seen quite a huge jump in both information sharing as well as the discussion of best practices in software development.

tag.cfc 0.1: Write Your Own Code Generator

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:15:00 EST

Back when I had some free time, I started working on my own code generator, partly because other code generators create code slightly different from my preferences and partly for the challenge.