Adventures in Web Application Develompent by Phil Duba

OT - Google Maps: Interesting Feature

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:00 -0400

Don't know if this is new or not, or maybe new to us here in New Jersey, but as I was trying to find directions to 360|Flex Camp - New Jersey using Google Maps, I noticed a "Also Available: Public Transit" link. After clicking on it, I got a combinat...

Email Hijacked?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:21:00 -0400

I have an email address I use just for this blog and not too long ago, I opened up Thunderbird to download my mail and had a ton of "Undeliverable Message" emails waiting for me. I am assuming that my email address is being spoofed and these are spam...

CFUnited: Refactoring to Object Oreinted Programming

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0400

My final session at CFUnited was Dan Wilson's talk on Refactoring to Object Oriented Programming. While this session doesn't have as extensive notes as the other ones, it was very worthwhile to go to. Dan first talked about how to approach refactorin...

CFUnited: Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:53:00 -0400

Next up on Saturday was Qasim Rasheed's presentation on integrating SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. Some of the beginning stuff was covered in other sessions, but one thing I did notice is that everyone does their things slightly differently even if the... [More]

CFUnited: Prototyping for Smarties

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:44:00 -0400

In the afternoon on Saturday, I attended the Prototyping for Smarties session by Hal Helms and Clark Valberg. Tangent:Prior to their first session, I believe, I was having a discussion with a bunch of people who were trying to figure out what the "Sm... [More]

CFUnited: All about CFThread

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:26:00 -0400

Another session I attended Saturday was Rupesh Kumar's presentation on CFThread. I'll admit, since I don't have CF8 at work, I haven't really played with CFThread all that much and really don't know much more than what folks have mentioned in the blo... [More]

CFUnited: Event Driven Programming

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:20:00 -0400

I'm going to try and finish up all my posts/reviews from CFUnited today and tomorrow. Essentially, I have the Saturday sessions to wrap up and then probably a final wrap-up from my experiences at the conference as a whole. Anyways, I got up early on ... [More]

CFUnited: Integrated ColdFusion Development Environment

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:49:00 -0400

The last session I attended on Friday was Phill Nacelli's presentation on the an integrated ColdFusion development environment. There wasn't much different in here that what has been shown with the ACME guide and the articles in the recently released... [More]

CFUnited: ColdBox Framework 101

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:36:00 -0400

Friday afternoon started off by me attending Luis Majano's Coldbox Framework 101 presentation. I must admit, I have never really looked at the framework before and wanted to see how it differs from the other frameworks. Luis gave a good overview of h... [More]

CFUnited: Design Principles for Developers

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:28:00 -0400

I attended Dave Powell's Design Principles for Developers presentation on Friday morning (a nice way to start off a birthday). Design is something I really need to get into, especially if I ever decide to take on secondary work (well, I want to, but ... [More]

CFUnited: Automating the build & deployment process with ANT

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:20:00 -0400

Marc Esher gave a good overview of ANT on Thursday. When first working with ANT, I found it daunting, I didn't really understand it and the setup and it's real power. After attending Marc's presentation (as well as seeing its use in others), I'm not ... [More]

CFUnited - Changing the Game

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:11:00 -0400

So I'm a little late in posting these reviews. I'll spread them out over the next few days (you would not believe how many people came up to me and asked why I wasn't posting reviews anymore). Hal Helms and Clark Valberg did a presentation on how to ... [More]

CFUnited: Google Webmaster Tools

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:34:00 -0400

The first session of the afternoon I attended was Michael Dinowitz's Google Web Master Tools Step by Step. Michael went through each of the links on the left side of the Tools and provided some things to look at. He at least brought up things that pe... [More]

CFUnited - DB Design: Avoiding performance and maintenance headaches

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:37:00 -0400

My second session this morning at CFUnited was DB Design - Avoiding maintenance and performance headaches by Nate Nelson. I attended this because at work, we're going through a rearchitecting of our infrastructure and better defining the way we do ap... [More]

CFUnited: jQuery/CF Integration

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:19:00 -0400

This morning I attended John Farrar's jQuery/CF Integration presented by John Farrar. I was a little late, but thank goodness for technical difficulties I didn't miss much. That was a double edge sword also, as John tried to make up time during his p... [More]