I am James Gibson

Printing Fitbit

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:34:09 GMT

10 January 2011

Just got my fitbit today and started tracking my food. One problem i found though is that i cannot print my food logs. I need to print these as I am taking part in the 60 day challenge over at Crossfit Firebase.

I asked a question over on the fitbit forums, but they didn't respond fast enough so I created my own print script that can be used in a browser bookmark!

A Sign of the Times (literally)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:23:00 GMT

26 August 2010

While on our recent trip to visit the family farm in south eastern Kentucky, we ran across a definite sign of the times.

We found this jewel of a sign around mile marker 53 on Orby Cantrell Hwy in rural Pound, Va. I'm not too sure how good their advertising is helping these days.

Coldfusion on Wheels (cfwheels) 1.1 release - Plugin Injection Performance Improved

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:03:00 GMT

13 August 2010

As with all frameworks, performance is a big part of what makes a framework great. With my ongoing work on Reservoir, we ran into an issue with wheels plugin performance. We ran into this problem because we use so many plugins. Right now, Reservoir uses 32 different plugins to enhance the functionality of wheels or to add new functionality that we needed specifically for the application.

The changes made were small, but the performance improvement was HUGE. Before the change, it was taking upwards of 9 to 11 milliseconds for a model object to be created in the framework for our application. As you can imagine, just instantiating 20 model objects was taking 200+ milliseconds, completely unacceptable.

I made it on the cross-fit firebase blog

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:33:02 GMT

30 July 2010

Talk about web savvy, my lovely wife pointed out to me today that my picture was posted on the crossfit firebase website. I have been officially immortalized in crossfit lore and legend (just kidding).

If you haven't checked out crossfit, give it a shot. My wife and I go together and the benefits are tremendous.

Photo below for posterity.

CFWheels Assetbundler 1.0 Released!

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:03:50 GMT

26 July 2010

I am happy to announce the 1.0 release of the Coldfusion on Wheels assetbundler. You can check out the source code over on github and download it from my code page or over at the Coldfusion on Wheels site. This release includes some code and documentation clean up as the plugin has been stable for quite some time now.

Over at Liquifusion Studios, we have been using the plugin for quite some time to keep our javascript and css code base neat and tidy in our membership software offering.

If you have any ideas for updates to the plugin, don't hesitate to fork me on github or tweet me.

I now have a blog!

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:26:04 GMT

12 June 2010

I have been wanting to do some work on my website for a while now and I have finally taken the plung. iamjamesgibson.com is now running on the getreservoir.com platform. For the un-informed, Reservoir is a membership / CMS platform that I have created in the last year in partnership with Liquifusion Studios. I am very excited to now be "eating my own dog food".