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As I write this, I am beginning to box up my belongings and prepare for another move across the Atlantic. I've accepted the position of CIO at AboutWeb - a staff augmentation and software development company based out of Washington, DC. I'm moving back into one of the richest ColdFusio... Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 13,493 | I'll be honest - I wasn't terribly thrilled with the amount of coverage given to the new features in Blackstone. Don't get me wrong, between a full-day of hands-on sessions, sneak peeks, a couple of features shown off in the keynotes, and a 'Birds of a Feather' one evening, there was p... Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 9,976 | Programming is hard work, or it can be. For developers there seems to be a tendency to write and rewrite the same code. Often it seems most of our work boils down to the fundamental four: Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD). Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 9,694 Replies: 1 | MAX 2004 easily ranked as one of our best conferences ever. Between product announcements, the sessions, increased attendance, and the New Orleans scene, it set a new standard for us to beat next year. Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 15,059 | Stored procedures are dangerous things. They are programs. They are a collection of precompiled SQL statements stored in the database. This article presents the techniques I used with the Switch-box CFSQLTool (free download available at www.switch-box.org) to remove the grief of design... Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 9,042 | Last month I introduced ColdFusion Components in this column. I wrote about the CFC file extension, the tags that make up components (cfcomponent and cffunction), how to create a component, and how to call methods on that component instance. Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 16,496 | A two-part series looks at techniques for shifting workload away from the application server and onto the database by using 'extra' database tables. It's just an average search - three full text indexes, ten subselects on many-to-many joins, and a bit of Pythagoras - to find results wi... Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 10,082 Replies: 1 | While standing in line at my local coffee shop the other day, I was thinking about how helpful a thorough knowledge of design patterns is for a developer. In case you're unclear about what design patterns are, think of them as time-tested solutions to very specific problems. Dec. 14, 2004 Reads: 19,863 Replies: 1 |
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