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Reuse-in-the-small is a solved problem. Reuse-in-the-large remains a mostly unsolved problem.
Jeff Atwood from Robert Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
I'm actively hacking at my latest toy project, which integrates a few 3rd party pr
I kind of went overboard on the languages & platforms with SQL Surfer 2.0, which I first mentioned early yesterday morning. Luckily, the finished product is just running CF/HTML/CSS/JS (That's 4).The build process uses C# (+1) to customize fixes to Edit A
I kind of went overboard on the languages & platforms with SQL Surfer 2.0, which I first mentioned early yesterday morning. Luckily, the finished product is just running CF/HTML/CSS/JS (That's 4).The build process uses C# (+1) to customize fixes to Edit A
My wife has been on me to work on some projects that will make us money. Instead, she's seen me hacking away at this little toy. SQL Surfer 2.0 is a web 2.0 style SQL query editor. I've been playing with it for a few weeks now, and I've got to say, it rea
I had completely promised myself that I would NOT join MySpace, just as a fundamental stand against poor web design, even if they did write it with my favorite programming language. As a result, I had mentally discarded social networks in general, but, wh
A few days ago, Tony Petruzzi posted "It's official: jQuery wins!" I took it with a grain of salt, but left it in the back of my mind. Then today, I saw the State of jQuery '08 slideshow. Now, I think Tony was right.
Along the trail of web-based ad-hoc query tools, I also have the need to back up my database from time to time. Having no direct connection to SQL Server across the internet on my host, I can't just use the SQL Server tools to do it.Another scenario: a co
So after nearly a year of sitting on Pagination 1.0 RC, I finally have the 1.0 release of the data paging library for ColdFusion.The only thing in the 1.0 final version that I changed from the release candidate was the error messages. Most of the question
I was just thinking about managing my database here on Dopefly. I don't have direct SQL access to the server (SQL Server 2000), so there's no using SQL Manager to do things. That sort of leaves me with FTPing my ad-hoc queries to the server and running on
I've got a few of these types of entries lined up. If you have a blog, post your own!.<cflock name="#createUUID()#" type="exclusive" timeout="30">
This code creates a uniquely named exclusive lock - that's an oxymoron. If the name of the lock is uni
