Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog

Review: Railo 3 Beginners Guide

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0200

The first Railo book Railo 3 Beginner's Guide, and hopefully not the last, was published by Packt Publishing sometime near the end of December, and while it's taken a bit of time a copy finally arrived last week for me to review. I've already po...

JavaScript Expert Needed

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:29:00 +0200

We have an immediate need in Munich, Germany for a JavaScript expert. The candidate must have extensive interface design skills and strong familiarity working with js frameworks such as jQuery. Being able to understand and communicate in German a ...

oAuth Update on Riaforge

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:02:00 +0200

Just a quick note, we have updated the oAuth implementation on riaforge. There was a small bug in the toHeader() function the oAuth prefix was not being prepended to the authentication string. I also put together a new simple "Test Harness" to te...

SerializeJson Sucks II

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:06:00 +0200

I want to thank those of you who read my rant and added your opinions, questions and corrections (Thanks Nic loosely typed of course :) ) Letting of steam certainly helps and getting feedback helps focus too. Thanks Kai, I will attempt to clar... [More]

Coldfusion's SerializeJson Sucks!

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:57:00 +0200

If I recall correctly CFML is a typeless language. I mean we can really all agree that Coldfusion is typeless right? Ok now that we have that out of the way lets talk about Adobe's implementation of serializejson(). Serializejson is simply trying...

Structkeyexists or Yes, No, Maybe So

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:44:00 +0200

Perhaps I'm just being picky here but why do some functions in CF return a boolean (true/false) and others return a boolean (yes/no)? For example StruckKeyExists() is one such culprit it returns a Yes or a No, which in CF is boolean. The problem ... [More]

Book review: Coldfusion 9 Developer Tutorial

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:27:00 +0200

I've just received an updated copy of John Farrar's Developer Tutorial Book for Coldfusion 9 from Packt Publishing. I've not yet had the time to dive into the book yet as work has been insane busy but I'll try to get a "real" review of the book in t... [More]

Some Thoughs on CFUnited

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:01:00 +0200

[OK something is going weird with blog CFC going to have to finally make the move to mango when I get back to Germany] I'm kind of sad really. My first "major" speaking engagement happens to be at the last official CFUnited. Perhaps it's just me...

Converting structkeys to lowercase

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:49:00 +0200

As you most probably know when you create a structure and don't quote the keys they are automatically converted to uppercase. When you dump it out you get: and when you serialize it to json all the keys are also uppercase. Th...

Pushing the Pause Button

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:38:00 +0200

As you may have noticed not much has changed on my blog in a while. A couple of entries ago I called it writers block. But it's not really writers block at all. I have been quite busy at work working on several new software features and working...

Flash 10.1 for Mobile beta

Thu, 27 May 2010 09:29:00 +0200

I read an article yesterday by Nick Saint on Flash for Smartphones, Nick claims that its terrible. He does add the caveat that it's still in beta, and the video he does to show some of the functionality isn't bad, but his speed comparison for page... [More]

A Long Trip

Sun, 23 May 2010 12:32:00 +0200

Been a long vacation but I am finally heading back home. Just getting ready to pack my suitcases and head home. Funny I decided to check my blog today because I received an error report and I noticed that the front page has that lovely message th...

A Case of Writers Block

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:57:00 +0200

It's been awfully quiet on the blogging front here lately and to be perfectly honest I'm having a major case of writers block combined with quite a bit of work both at work and at home. Time, at the moment, is playing against me and robbing me of th...

Solaris 10 No Longer Free

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:13:00 +0200

On Tuesday I read an article in the German IT news portal indicating that Sun Oracle has changed the licensing agreement for Solaris 10. It will no longer be free after a 90 day evaluation period, if you wish to continue using the OS you must sign a... [More]

Apple iPad plagued with delays

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:53:00 +0200

It looks as though Apples new wonder child the iPad is having it's first teething woes even before it's official birth. Both WLAN and UMTS versions of the iPad are supposed to go on sale on April 3rd in the USA but it looks like the more expensive...