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Thanks to the CFObjective ANZ delegates who turned up this morning to hear my talk about building Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) using CFML custom tags. For those of you who couldn't make it, the presentation covered the following areas:<...
Thanks to everyone who tuned in for my CFMeetup presentation on Thinking About Server Performance. A few connection glitches on my end but hopefully these weren't too distracting. I've uploaded the presentation files as promised. The zip c...
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Raymond Camden recently posted an article about writing a web crawler in ColdFusion, which reminded me that I'd meant to share our own multi-threaded web crawling library that we originally developed in 2008. The core of the library consists of on...
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Anyone who's seen our desk at WebDU or cfObjective ANZ in the last few years will know that we're doing a fair bit of research work in computer vision (CV) - that is using image processing and artificial intelligence techniques to let softwar...
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Here at RocketBoots HQ we've just finished a reshuffle of our website to cut some content clutter and highlight some of the more posterior-impacting bits of UI magic our team has developed over the last year and a bit. One of these is our &...
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A screencast of my popular Requirements Without Tears presentation from WebDU 2010 is now available for you to watch using the wonders of BrightCove's video streaming services. Find out why so many projects get requirements wrong, and what yo...
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Well WebDU is finished for another year - thanks again to Geoff and the Daemon crew. We think this is a brilliant conference, and we're proud to have been a silver sponsor of WebDU for the last seven years, in fact every year since RocketBoots was...
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To round off round one, here is the answer to question four. On the night this went to the Framed team, who wrote a very elegant OO solution in Java (several people have made comments to this effect since the night). This solution is giv...
Ok, after a little delay here's the final question from round one, a return to Pythagoras with the added twist of a third dimension: The universe is collapsing. Planets are colliding. Which planet has not collided with another? <...
So as I said, this problem is related to the ASCII decoding problem from the final last year. The key to solving the problem is coming up with the correct interpretation of “Checkerboard”. In the competition we had to give a few hint...
