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#8) In related news, Cobol’s and PASCAL’s newest versions are in beta stage for your downloading pleasure. Remember max 14.4 baud connection allowed for each download.
#7) Use what you like or find another job … just quit bitchin.
#6) …for a minute there I thought they had solved the world’s energy crisis. [...]
ColdFusion 8 is out. Get ready to break out your wallets - the price apparently went up and there is some uproar about Adobe’s ongoing overseas pricing…
While I don’t think the pricing impacts large corporations (much) - I do think it impacts smaller companies. Where I previously worked we had 3 CF servers [...]
Saw this popup on the jQuery mailing list…
Sloppy - the slow proxy
Sloppy deliberately slows the transfer of data between client and server.
Example usage: you probably build web sites on your local network, which is fast. Using Sloppy is one way to get the “dial-up experience” of your work without the hassle of having to [...]
Here is a neat one I just stumbled upon. I’m always trying to remember wiki syntax when updating my wiki… I am always using Trac wiki syntax on Mediawiki, etc.
Today I was digging through the Mediawiki documentation and found a Firefox extension which gives you a Wikipedia toolbar! On initial installation [...]
Tonight I'm giving an Ant presentation at our ColdFusion user group and wanted to show an example of how to use the FTP task. At work we have direct access to our servers so I haven't had the need to use FTP yet so I had to do some reading. FTP oddly [...]
This one is new in Eclipse 3.3 - a neat UI Element interface - it's bound to CTRL+3 so it doesn't work in the CFEclipse perspective - but you can of course change that...
Simply press CTRL+3 and a dialog will popup - you can then enter text to filter things - very neat!
The next one [...]
Another improvement in Eclipse 3.3 is the new key bindings dialog. In 3.2 assigning keyboard shortcuts was always hit or miss - in 3.3 this is much easier - once you figure out how it works.
I went to add a keyboard shortcut for doing commits in SVN - I usually use ALT+C. But [...]
I recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.3 and CFEclipe 1.3.1.5 and have had no problems - until today.
I'm working on some example Ant scripts for an upcoming presentation - and kept getting an error when trying to do very simple builds using an INPUT task:
BUILD FAILED
E:\workspace\helloworld\build.xml:30: jave.lang.NullPointerException
This was on a laptop on which I had just [...]
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