Learning OO and have questions?
Taking the decision to learn OO programming can be a confusing route. With all the new and complicated taxonomy, variety of opinions and...
So you want more tutorials?
I am going to continue the ‘So You Wanna Create a Model Glue Application series. (Thanks Lola 😉 For those just tuning in, the...
Pragmatic Snippets
Previously, I showed my top seven snippets. Let us use some of the snippets together to make a new component. To follow along, you should...
Seven snippets for highly effective developers
I like to think a lot about Rapid Development. Programming I find to be very enjoyable. I enjoy thinking around problems and designing...
Drive letters are only 1 character?
Since I created the SUBST drive mapping generator I have been wanting to make drive letters more than one character. I do not think this is...
Me as a Simpsons Character
I saw the “Create a Simpson’s Character” post on Andy Jarrett’s blog, so I gave it a go. Scary how much realism I...
Rapid Development – Generate your drive mappings
I posted a week ago about how to map a directory to a drive letter. This was a good tip for me because to get to my webroot directory, I...
Stored Procedure argument is too long for SQL Server
I have been maintaining an ad-hoc report lately. The report uses a stored procedure to perform Cross-Tab functions on a resultset. The...
CF8 PostgreSQL support is Enterprise only?
Update: This post is no longer true. The documentation has been updated to reflect the inclusion of PostgreSQL in the standard edition of...
Huge time saver: Alias a directory as a drive letter
Using a quick command, you can alias a directory in MSWindows to a drive letter. This is extremely handy when you access a nested directory...