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The CFML language was crying out for a specification for a long time, but is it really still relevant? Who gains from it, and who loses from it?
Published: 16 February 2010, Tuesday 08:06 AM

I have updated the CFML Javascript plugin for OpenBD to now support frameworks, such as JQuery, that allows us to render server side pages using CFML and JQuery
Published: 31 January 2010, Sunday 07:59 PM

Following on from my previous post, cloudkick, has published their network latency findings within Amazon's EC2 clearly showing a major problem brewing within at least one of their data centers.
Published: 13 January 2010, Wednesday 08:45 AM

Oh, Microsoft... I hate you. It's nothing personal, really, just pure resentment that you screw me over so badly in the name of providing features for a set of gamers.
Published: 24 September 2007, Monday 08:35 AM

Throwing the shout-out to the Cutlassian Privateers: yo ho ho and a bottle of... um...
Published: 22 August 2007, Wednesday 08:42 PM

As enterprise programmers, we don't "program" quite so much any more. What we do is write systems, fairly small units that leverage libraries to do stuff.
Published: 6 June 2007, Wednesday 04:25 AM

It all started in August when our friend died under tragic circumstances. His wife, devastated by the loss, has been steady enough to work through the unpleasant mound of paperwork that follows death. In the middle of dealing with all the complexitie
Published: 25 December 2009, Friday 02:22 PM

I was running the Scala compiler and was quite surprised to see this.
Published: 17 December 2009, Thursday 08:04 AM

I'm in the bay area for my training course when i had a request to speak at a JUG. I was so busy with other things at the time that I didn't pay much attention to the details of the request and just responded, sure, lets do it as long as it h
Published: 5 November 2009, Thursday 08:42 AM