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alan.blog-city.com
- CFML Documentation core to Open BlueDragon
A revolution has begun, with the introduction of live CFML (JavaDoc like) documentation for OpenBD functions and tags. Never again, will you forget or misuse a function.
Published: 15 November 2009, Sunday 05:44 AM - Java 5 dies - mourning a revolution
Java5 officially dies today. Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.
Published: 30 October 2009, Friday 11:54 AM - Amazon takes MySQL to the cloud; or have they?
Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone.
Published: 27 October 2009, Tuesday 03:43 AM
kirk.blog-city.com
- Video Presentation for Sacramento JUG
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 - Proof that Java is still the fasted language and other random thoughts
A few years back Jack released a newsletter on April 1st that proclaimed Java as the fasted language ever. In that news letter to pointed out "stunning and irrefutable" evidence to support his claim. The email we received in response to tha
Published: 19 October 2009, Monday 03:28 AM - awk????
It's been a while since I've used awk and like all things that are un-used, they tend to get a bit rusty. Today I needed to parse a column out of a text file and the formatting was very uneven to the put that cut wasn't going to.. well...
Published: 13 October 2009, Tuesday 04:06 AM
epesh.blog-city.com
- Microsoft, I hate you.
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 - Cutlassian Privateers, wooooo
Throwing the shout-out to the Cutlassian Privateers: yo ho ho and a bottle of... um...
Published: 22 August 2007, Wednesday 08:42 PM - Changing paradigms from "programmer" to ... "multi-programmer"
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