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What an amazing seven years. This past year I’ve been so busy, I’ve rarely had a chance to blog. Ok, well, I blame Twitter. I joined eCivis in 2005, and made their leading product, in my humble opinion, a world-class ColdFusion-based SaaS application. I’ve learned so much …
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Sorry folks – been swamped. Have some news and updates to my recent posts coming soon. Stay tuned! Filed under: Default
I’m a bit behind, but it seems a couple weeks ago Ray Camden finally approved my two CFLib entries for working with Solr. As I mentioned in my previous posts, this is critical if you are moving from Verity to Solr, or you happen to come up against many of Solr little quirks. I’m going …
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Short 5 minute video. Filed under: Default Tagged: TED, video
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Our ColdFusion-based SaaS application sends out roughly 8,000 – 10,000 emails per day, and even more on the weekends. I wrote the code in 2007, and since then worked hard on improving memory usage. We optimized queries, re-worked string concatenation to use JAVA’s StringBuffer and …
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I have a love/hate relationship with MS SQL Server. While its easy to use and setup, its a pain to grow and manage. The tools seems to cover only 20% of the normal use case. Anyways, wouldn’t it be nice if MS SQL Server actually told you where you are missing indexes, and where performance …
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Last night I was surfing the web, and a link to YouTube produced this error. I didn’t know YouTube had a sense of humor. 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this …
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I’ve moved my blog! Please make sure to update your RSS/ATOM feeds. More details forthcoming. Filed under: Default
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JSHint is a new fork of JSLint. To quote them: "JSHint is a fork of Douglas Crockford's JSLint that is designed to be more flexible than the original. Our goal is to make a tool that helps you to find errors in your JavaScript code and to enforce your favorite coding style. We realize that …
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We have settled really well on Git, and have branches for all developers and each environment, like I described earlier. However, what we don't have is an easy way to deploy a git branch, or simply execute a git pull command remotely. I don't want to do it using SSH and Git BASH, which seems to …
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