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I Flunked the AIR Practice Exam 3 years ago

I'm going to soon be AIR 1.5 certified, though it is going to take a little longer than I thought. I took the free AIR based mock exam and scored 58%. Definitely nothing to be proud of, yeah? The good news is the practice exam pointed out a few areas of study for me to focus on and …

CFObjective Session: Build a ColdFusion powered AIR … 3 years ago

I'm putting the finishing touches on my upcoming presentation, Build a ColdFusion powered AIR application, for CF.Objective() and wanted to pass on some interesting news. A couple of weeks ago, Terry Ryan , invited me to expand my presentation to cover AIR+ColdFusion functionality to …

I present You Got Your ColdFusion In My Adobe Air! to … 3 years ago

You Got Your ColdFusion In My Adobe Air! Meeting: 3/19/09 6:00 PM SRA International Come see how to use ColdFusion to power an Adobe AIR desktop application. Adobe AIR is quickly gaining momentum as a pioneer of the Rich Desktop. ColdFusion is a rapid development platform providing …

I Present Making Bad Code Good To The CFMeetup March 5th … 3 years ago

At 6:00 EST this Thursday, March 5th, I present Making Bad Code, Good to the Online ColdFusion Meetup. You can attend this presentation virtually, by visiting the Online ColdFusion Meeting Room at 6:00 EST. If you work on a legacy application, or on code built by lots of developers …

Libpurple I Hate You 3 years ago

I use both Pidgin and Adium for chat clients. Both use libpurple , which has always been a good thing... that is until 2-19-2009. Why does that day live in infamy, you ask? Well that is when Adium updated to a new version and broke my gTalk network. The symptoms are kind of strange. I …

How to Unrecover Deleted Files 3 years ago

Through an accident, I blame the dog for this one, my entire documents folder got deleted this morning. To compound the issue, the folder was 'too big' for the wimpy Recycle Bin, so the files were permanently deleted. When I realized what had happened, I nearly went into shock. …

Of Software Design, The Law of Demeter and Credit Card … 3 years ago

The Law of Demeter is a Software Engineering principle guiding how objects should talk to each other. From Wikipedia : The Law of Demeter (LoD), or Principle of Least Knowledge, is a design guideline for developing software, particularly object-oriented programs ...[and] ...can be …

Where Willl The Next RIAAdventure Cruise Be? 3 years ago

Woo Hoo! The inaugural RIA Adventure cruise was a smashing success . It was fun hanging out with a lively entertaining crew and getting to know each other better, all while drinking in Perfect Weather, Frosty Beverages and Island Sun. The next cruise could be in a lot of locations, …

What can you code in 90 seconds? 3 years ago

I just finished reading an interesting blog post from Raghu , a flex evangelist at Adobe, and was left with the thought, what can I code in 90 seconds? <CF_DayDream mode="begin" /> After daydreaming was over, I came to the realization that I can code nothing in 90 seconds. See, …

Sailing With A Bunch Of Geeks 3 years ago

We Sail In 1 Week! I was greeted with this news when I woke up. Shannon and I are going on the inaugural RIA Adventure Caribbean Cruise and we are ready to go. We've both been looking foward to white sandy beaches, water and sun for a while now and with only a week to go, are getting …