Managing bot sessions
June 22, 2010
This is quick hat tip and public thanks to Ben Nadel and David Boyer. At work we run our own servers and have issues with bots hitting sites and creating huge amounts of sessions which then sit there for quite a while doing nothing, but using up RAM. Read more »
RIA Unleashed for a mere $30
July 29, 2009
In case you missed it, Brian Rinaldi has announced "RIA Unleashed", a one day conference in Boston. The event will take place on Friday November the 13th and will have 3 tracks focusing on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR. Read more »
Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional for $10
January 30, 2009
In case you don't know (or don't check everyday) you may not have spotted that today's $10 ebook from Apress is: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional Read more »
"The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition" for $10
January 27, 2009
In case you don't know (or don't check everyday) you may not have spotted that today's $10 ebook from Apress is The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition Read more »
Using Paul Marcotte's Metro
January 13, 2009
I have been trying out Paul Marcotte's Metro. In Paul's words; "Metro is a library of components to support rapid development of applications that use ColdSpring and Transfer ORM." To me it is more than this. Read more »
Transfer and IBO
December 17, 2008
When I first started out learning OO I couldn't understand why a lot of people seemed to return a query object from their gateway when they are dealing with multiple records. The ColdFusion query object is a really nice feature of ColdFusion but it just doesn't fit in with my concept of OO. Read more »
Using Transfer's MetaData to construct queries
December 15, 2008
Thanks to Bob Silverberg's excellent series of posts on How I use Transfer, I've refined how my model is constructed by taking his ideas and modifying them to suit my own style. One of the things I wanted to be able to do with transfer is set up a basic search in my abstract Gateway (which I can override in my concrete gateway if I need to). Read more »
Transfer ORM Cheat Sheet
December 09, 2008
A little quick start guide I've put together for Transfer ORM Read more »
$10 eBook - Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
December 04, 2008
Today's $10 eBook is "Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality" by Bob Walsh. This book is aimed at the developer who wants to become their own boss. The reviews on Amazon are really good, so if being your own boss is something thatappeals to you then it might be worth a look. Be quick though - tomorrow there will be a different book! Read more »
TorttoiseSVN Tips
November 26, 2008
These are a few things I've discovered out about using TortoiseSVN, hopefully you'll learn something or maybe you already knew! Read more »