webdu 2012: web developer conference

A compendium of coldfusion and web development notes mixed in with assorted ramblings.

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Setting the priority of network connections in OS X 2 weeks ago

I have recently moved home and I am of course, without cable internet for a while whilst they install it (don't get me started on that yet!). So that I can have a bit of internet, I am using my iPhone tethering feature, but I also want to connect to the house wifi (so I can share printers and …

Railo Book Competition: The Winners! 2 months ago

A couple of weeks ago I run a competition to win my Railo 3 Beginner's Guide book . So now is the time to announce the winners!  In first place is Ben B. who wins a signed copy of the book for his myth "The cost for creating a cfc object is minimal and has no real cost." In joint second place, …

CFML Mythbusters competition: Choosing the winners 3 months ago

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about running a competition to be in my CFML Mythbusters competition , well the competition is now over and it's time to choose the winners Before choosing them, I thought I would post the code I am using to choose them and the process, so to be nice and …

Just for fun: What if your IDE had Achievements? 3 months ago

Following on from a post that Visual Studio has an Achievements Plugin  (very funny if you play on the XBox, Steam or PS3) I was just thinking what Achievements  could we unlock if we had a plugin for CFEclipse (or CFBuilder) whilst coding CFML? I love some of the ones mentioned here: …

Competition: CFML Mythbusters! Win my book! 4 months ago

I shall be presenting the topic "CFML Mythbusters" at a couple of conferences this year so far ( cf.Objective and OpenCF Summit )! So that you just don't have to hear about my chosen "myths" I thought I would open it up as a competition to all the readers of my blog!  I shall be answering a lot …

Railo 3: Beginner's Guide out now! 4 months ago

Happy New Year dear readers of my little blog! Just before the break for the holidays I was informed by the awesome guys and gals at Packt Publishing that my book "Railo 3: Beginner's Guide" was finally out! It wasn't enough that they told me it was out, they even sent me a few paper versions of …

Enabling Personal Hotspot on your iPhone 6 months ago

If you have been having problems finding your Personal Hotspot Wifi from your iPhone after the slew of updates recently, here is how I managed to fix it. Ok, so let's be clear, this is not about finding how to enable it, or if your cellular carrier allows you to use it, but rather, that you used …

Accessing complex web services with Railo 6 months ago

There are a number of times when a webservice returns some very complicated data, or inversely it requires some even more complicated parameters to be sent. In the past I have spent hours trying to figure out how to send the right parameters to remote method calls, but instead of wasting a long …

CFCamp: JQuery Mobile and Phone Gap 6 months ago

CFCamp this year was again, a great event! Some awesome presentations from everyone that presentend! I did promise to post my JQuery Mobile and PhoneGap presentation as soon as, so here you go! Had a total blast today, I highly recommend this condensed conference! It's a total brain filler!

CFCamp 2011! Be there or be a Pretzel! 7 months ago

  Munich! City of Oktober fest and Pretzels! The big soft ones with butter inside. What could be more delicious than that? I tell you what is... CFCAMP 2011 is!  That's right ladies and gentle-folks, after a three year hiatus, there is going to be a stomping and knowledge-infusing conference in …