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Learning jQuery 1.3 - Book review

As someone who has been using jQuery since the 1.0 release I thought I had a pretty good working knowledge of what jQuery can do - how wrong I was! I didn't think it would take me that long to read this book, but found it to be a constant source or revelation, and often ended up re-reading sections. Read more »

Railo really is fast!

I've had a few hours spare so thought I'd see for myself if Railo is as fast as I've heard. Well, after running a few of my own mini applications I can backup the claims. Read more »

Book Review: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice

So what am I, a ColdFusion developer, doing reading a PHP book? Well, I do work on PHP sites. However my main reason for reading this book is that ColdFusion and PHP have a lot in common. Both are web-orientated, loosely typed languages that started out as purely procedural, which have added object orientated features. There is a real lack of OOP books for the ColdFusion community and although this book is PHP based it is not that hard to translate the concepts to ColdFusion. Read more »

Monitoring ColdFusion Servers

Proper monitoring of you ColdFusion servers is important, sure you can use the monitor in ColdFusion Enterprise but this is next to useless when ColdFusion grinds to a halt. Read more »

Book Review: slide:ology

This book is for anyone who ever does presentations. Instead of treating your presentation as merely a list of prompts to yourself about what you want to say, it promotes making your slides as important as what you're saying to help you really get your message across. Read more »

Book Review: Object Orientated Technology: A manager's guide

This book was recommend by Hal Helms and if it's good enough for Hal then it's good enough for me :) Although this book was first published in 1990 it is still jam packed with useful information. It talks about C++ and Smalltalk but the explanations are relevant to any OO capable language, I got the first edition (for £2 for AbeBooks!) so they may have updated this in the second edition. Read more »

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