September 28, 2007 – 11:34 pm
Tonight I updated my Ubuntu install to the latest Gutsy beta (7.10). So far so good. This is the first upgrade I’ve done where it correctly set my widescreen monitor resolution so that was nice (no manually editing config files!).
I’ve also enabled the new flashy Compiz window effects but am not [...]
September 24, 2007 – 12:28 pm
This is an interesting read: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails. As are some of the follow up blog posts I stumbled across:
Immature developer attitudes revealed in flames regarding CDBaby
Thinking about Rails? Think Again (Slashdot - comments)
I find it interesting that he re-wrote the app in PHP - [...]
September 24, 2007 – 8:29 am
Recently I’ve been messing around with trying out a few different web testing tools.
Canoo WebTest
OpenQA: Selenium
Canoo looked neat with it’s Ant syntax - but I could not find a user friendly way to create my tests. There was a Firefox plugin but it was unintuitive to use. I also found [...]
September 21, 2007 – 12:32 pm
I was digging around the Aptana forums today and noticed a few posts where people were looking for ColdFusion support from within Aptana - either by Aptana adding in the language support themselves or possibly by merging with CFEclipse!
Mark Drew made a few comments on the forum about how you can easily run the two [...]
September 14, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Lately I ‘volunteered’ to take over our local PTA website. It was an attractive Flash site - but no tools were available to maintain it. Wanting to try something new - I checked out several of the major PHP CMS systems out there and finally settled on Joomla.
I got everything [...]
September 13, 2007 – 11:43 am
Mike Henke sent me a great link to this article: Building Web Applications With Apache Ant.
It's a great article but one section - "Minify your JavaScript and CSS files" really caught my eye. I've been using more and more jQuery code and related plugins in my projects (as well as more CSS) and [...]
September 11, 2007 – 3:12 pm
I was reading this post at Ben Forta's blog were he talks about the demise of CFDJ.
That story has been kicked around enough I won't go into it much - but I did enjoy reading CFDJ when it was in it's prime. I learned a lot from the magazine and still have a huge [...]
September 11, 2007 – 12:38 pm
I was reading this post Why ColdFusion? where the author states "ColdFusion is in use at 75 of the Fortune 100 companies" but I don't think I've ever seen who on the list actually uses ColdFusion? Why? Is it a secret?
I work for Lockheed Martin (#57) and we do use ColdFusion almost exclusively [...]
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