Ramblings of a Technology Zealot. Simeon Bateman is a long-time ColdFusion/Fuseboxer and a keen CFEclipse user.
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This is not a statement about one vendor or another, but for about 10 years I have been buying all Apple hardware for my business and personal use. I have every one of those devices sitting at my house. This hardware includes: 15″ Powerbook G4 G5 Mac Pro Tower 27″ iMac 2 15″ …
When I talk about Node.js when of the first demo’s I do often show is how easy it is to setup a http server that will allow you to access your static files. This can be really useful when developing application that have static content but that must be tested in a web based security [...]
In the mobile browser a long press on a link or images pops up a callout. Depending on the context what links are visible are different. This can be a great feature for users, but as a developer there are several scenarios when we might want to disable that behaviour. For instance if we have [...]
Lets just get this straight. Phonegap was an open source project developed by Nitobi for building native applications with web technologies. While Phonegap was always open source, it was managed by Nitobi. Nitobi was purchased last year by Adobe. I don’t know if it was prior to the …
I have been working on several mobile projects recently. The backends for these apps are very simple CRUD style admins. People either just need to post some data or see what has been submitted. Then I can create an API that exposes the information for mobile consumption via JSON. Its hard to find …
I found this multi-part article this weekend and its just teeming with great information. I have been keeping a tab in my browser open so I can finish reading all of it, but that is getting tedious as there is just too much to do. Mastering the viewport is the first part of the series. [...]
This is is really just a post to say I will post my thoughts on this once the dust settles. I have had so many people ask me my thoughts and what I am doing based on Adobe announcing that they are going to stop developing Flash Player for mobile devices as well as on [...]
For a long time I did not see the point of CoffeeScript. I thought “why would you need another language on top of Javascript.” But the truth of it was that I think I had not yet found a good example or reason for why it could be useful. Then I heard that Rails 3.1 [...]
I am working today on building a ColdFusion service that can receive the push notifications from Recurly.com Recurly sends all notifications to the same url, but with a different xml document. I needed to find the root node name so that I could process the push notification correctly. With most …
I have been meaning to write about this for a while, but I just keep not finding time. But tonight I was reading through the Sammy JS Tutorial, and I decided that I needed to make time. I have been spending a lot of time with Node.js lately. I have even given a couple presentations. [...]
