Programming tips, tricks and experiences from MX Consulting.
Muse readers - next week I'll be in Minneapolis MN at the Cf.objective conference. I'll be waxing eloquent in the ad hoc room (TBD) about 2 topics near to my heard. The first is web sockets and the second is consulting. It seems like that's so...
You may know about the "datasource" property in ColdFusion 9. It allows you to create a variable in your Application.cfc file called "datasource" and then skip the "datasource" attribute of your query tags. That's pretty neato. Here's how it wor...
A while back a product called "Able Commerce Builder" (ACB) was a popular (or pseudo popular) platform for CF folks. This would have been as far back as 1999. At some point they hired one of those developers who believe his technology choices are ...
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When I'm called into a data center or large application to look at a ColdFusion performance problem I often find myself in a "war room" with highly skilled technicians and admins who may or may not know much about the JVM runtime. One of the thing...
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Here's a Muse mantra you can hang your hat on (and your overalls and duck suite as well). Application performance starts at the database. Sure JVM tuning is important. So is networking, processor power, memory, file i/o and keeping cousin Eustace ...
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About twice a week I have a developer send me an email chatting about their current job and wondering if they should send me a resume. The answer is always yes! Send me a resume! I mean... what could it hurt? Generally I will walk you through our ...
ColdFusion is Java - most people know this in the abstract sense. In sales meetings with the non-initiated I speak about ColdFusion as a layer of Java Services like mail, networking, jdbc, and compiling coupled with a language and syntax that offe...
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I was privileged to appear on a local radio show called "Success in Action" on Saturday March 25th). The host is popular local business Coach Jim Barger. He works for "Action Coach" - an organization with which I was unfamiliar. But I found his lo...
Note - this is not a technical post. It's strictly intended to make people laugh or at least chuckle. And for the record I like cats.
In a recent meeting with a group of mad guitar players (meaning they have a high skill level - not that the...
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You might wonder where I've been holed up for more than a month. Never fear - I'm still slogging away. My current project is a dashboard for CF Webtools that tracks all of our consulting activity. CF Webtools runs a custom tracking and managemen...
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