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I've got to admit that running basically everything from my USB drive is really nice sounding. Portable everything. I love PortableApps.com . Let's talk about running Eclipse portable. Step 1: Download Eclipse, extract to portable drive Step 2: Download Java, extract or install to portable drive …
If you follow the fullscreen link, you should be able to see my speaker notes as well, which my help tie the concepts together. If you want to see the demos, you MUST turn on the speaker notes.
I have this open-source toy project I've been playing on, SQL Surfer . It's a little web-based SQL IDE with an amazing build process. How could I not share it with you? The idea was pretty simple. When I work on my program, I want to see it like a normal program, multiple files, separate CSS and …
Yes, it's a week from tomorrow. Alan & I have had some trouble getting speakers, but we need to have some get-togethers still, so let's do it. Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:30 PM, UAT main theatre room. We're calling this "skills month." Presentation #1: Alan Rother, AZCFUG Manager: Intro to …
I know a lot of us out in the general work force really do a lot of work, and some of us put in way more hours than is healthy, but with the holidays being upon us, I'd like to suggest one thing: have other projects. By other projects, I mean a personal project or an open source project where you …
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is a bunch of ranting run-on sentences... See, here's the problem with Microsoft's software platform, especially relating to ASP.NET, but they keep doing things like this: they went from having no MVC, where web sites feel like desktop app programming, …
We've heard it, we may have seen it in action. If you have ever asked yourself "why," this is for you. (BTW, I'm just going to call it a "facade" because "façade" is too difficult for my keyboard to produce) The Pattern A facade is a fake front, like a mask. A …
Hey everyone in the Phoenix valley - This month's AZCFUG meeting is going to be super-casual. We're going to Aunt Chilada's in Tempe next Wednesday, the 17th at 6:30. As usual, we will probably be out back somewhere, so look around until you find us. There's an official post at our Adobe Groups …
We've all heard it a thousand times. " VAR YOUR VARIABLES ! " But why? You say, "I've never had that problem" and I'll tell you what, you probably wouldn't know it if you saw it. Pay attention here. Let's take a simple ColdFusion function, easy stuff here. Dead simple. <cffunction …
Hey all - quick note to let you all know that I issued my first commit of many into the SQL Surfer project. No real single-file download yet, but you can download the source and build your own with Eclipse, Ant and Groovy (if you dare!).I'll share some mo
