Thanks go to Chris Blackwell for this: if you rely on calling layout() explicitly, you'll get an exception in version 2.1. Chris provided a fix and version 2.1.1 contains that. Version 2.1.1 is the default download now from FW/1's RIAforge page as well as from the FW/1 Github repo . If you don't …
I just got notified that my proposals for cf.Objective() 2013 were accepted. Here are the titles: Learn You a What for Great Good?
ORM, noSQL and Vietnam
Humongous MongoDB
What are each of those about? Learn You a What for Great Good? "The Pragmatic Programmer", a landmark book by Andrew Hunt …
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FW/1 2.1 is now the official master release. The develop branch has been merged to master and the 'v2.1' tag has been added. Work on version 2.2 will soon start on the develop branch. Version 2.1 has been a long time in the works. Version 2.0 was released in December 2011, just over a year ago. …
I just happened across this quote about Java: We've also seen a new light in the OO world. A language that promises portability and simplicity, a faster way to build tomorrow's application: the distributed application. Of course, I'm talking about Java. Is it all hype? Is it the new saviour? …
Just saw Ray Camden's Most-viewed blog entries of 2012 post and it made me curious about the most-viewed posts on my blog over the last year. A little bit of SQL and some regex query and replace produced this list: Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 42385 Clojure at cf.Objective()? 42187 …
Welcome to 2013 and at World Singles we are expanding our development team! We're looking for three self-motivated engineers in three very different roles, working remotely from their home office. We want an experienced designer / front end developer who can work with the business team to design …
The next release of FW/1 has just hit Release Candidate status! As noted before, the main addition since the Alpha (October 21st) is a debugging feature: you can now enable tracing for the framework and see what it is queuing up and what it is executing. There have also been a number of bug …
I recently completed 10gen's MongoDB for Developers online course . It was the first time they had run the course so there were a few bumps in the road - and Superstorm Sandy closed 10gen's New York office for a while - but overall it went very smoothly, especially considering they had over …
Some Background No doubt much to many people's surprise, I recently bought a Windows machine. I've used every version of Windows since 3.1 but I've always preferred Apple's offerings, both in terms of hardware and software. Before OS X, I ran a BSD variant alongside System 6 and System 7, so my …