I have always loved running but it's been more of a casual thing until now. This year I plan on kicking up my running game and just last night I recorded my longest non stop run ever of 8 Miles . I have some short term goals and some long term goals that I want to accomplish and to do …
PowerShell is a pretty useful shell when you start learning what it can do. I have been using it a lot more lately and I want to show you a couple of tips for reading in files. The Get-Content cmdlet allows us to read in the contents of a file.
Get-Content "path-to-file" You can also …
About two and half months ago a friend told me about this event called the Tough Mudder. I was intrigued and intimidated so I decided to look into it. The Tough Mudder website describes the event as
Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British …
Yesterday I announced my plans to join First Comp . Today I would like to help my current employer fill my position. I really like the people here and the company is doing some great things. This is why I want to help them as much as I can to find my replacement. If you are in the …
Today is one of those life changing days that are few and far between. This morning I am sad to announce that I will be leaving my current position of Senior Web Developer at STERIS, effective April 27, 2012. This position was a great learning experience for me and I am grateful for …
Thanks to a some contributions from a friend, we will call him Lance, we were able to make some important updates to the project over the last week. If you have never heard of or used Hyrule please check back soon as I am going to start a new series on using the framework. In the …
What is efficient code? Efficient: Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. In some instances this means writing less code but but that's not always the case. When we first start off as eager programmers (and wanna be hackers) our goal is simply to get …
There was a discussion about output in a component yesterday on a post by Ben Nadel . I thought I would take a chance to clear this up today because even after a comment I left on the post I was a little bit confused. Long before ColdFusion 9 and script components were available to us …
I was having some issues yesterday implementing a rest service. At the end of the day I learned a valuable lesson that will stick with me going forward and one that I would like to share with you today. If you need to write code against 3rd party APIs do yourself a favor and test them …
Most of my new applications these days are built using ColdBox and Bootstrap . Whenever I start a new project I take some time to customize Coldbox to my liking that included converting the components to script and setting up the layouts & views using Bootstrap. I decided to create a …