I backed a Standing Desk Kick Starter
Kickstarter is all the rage, isn’t it? As the owner of 3 small businesses, I really like the capabilities kickstarter brings to the...
ColdFusion 11 – MySQL no Suitable Driver
For reasons too complicated to get into, ColdFusion 11 no longer ships with a JDBC driver for MySQL. This is a change over previous...
Presentation Files – Our application got popular and now it breaks!
I’ve just posted the presentation “Our application got popular and now it breaks!” that was delivered at Dev.Objective()...
The Top 5 Things You are Doing Today to Hinder Scalability
At the CFSummit 2014, I presented on The Top 5 Things You are Doing Today to Hinder Scalability. I collected my material through helping...
How to Find the Best Outdoor Workout for Every Fitness Style
I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians
Using MongoDB Aggregation Framework to Filter Trello Cards
I’m helping prepare the CFSummit conference. We’ve organized the sessions on Trello and had a public voting session. It’s...
Caching for Fun and Profit: Or why would you ever cache a page for 5 seconds?
There are a lot of ways to cache data. You can cache a piece of data, a query, a page fragment, an entire page, or an entire website. You...
Recruiters: How To Get Ignored
I don’t envy Technical Recruiters. They have tough job trying to place people in roles the recruiter himself doesn’t...
Senior Software Developer / Architect / Dev Ninja (Durham, NC)
Local Job Posting for friend. This is a good position for a high quality ColdFusion person who understands start up culture and wants to...
How to get Oracle 8i to Start on Windows XP
Oracle Error – Oracle Not Available I’m working on a client project that uses an Oracle 8i database. We’ll eventually...