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Where have I been?

By barneyb on April 21, 2007

I've been posting very little this year, and figured I'd take a bit of down time this rainy Saturday for a "personal update" kind of post. Big things first:
As many people know, I started a new job at Mentor Graphics at the beginning of the year. A rather big change moving from a [...]

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Telling it like it is

By barneyb on April 21, 2007

I was writing some Java today, and ran across the DraconianErrorHandler in the depths of Xerces (package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util).  It's a very apt name (it simply throws any errors it's passed), but the name struck me as something outside the bounds of the expected.  I'd have undoubtedly named it ErrorPropogationErrorHandler or something that described what it [...]

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Dynamic Languages

By barneyb on April 17, 2007

Forta posted on CF being omitted from InfoWorld's article on dynamic languages. My question is "why should CF be on the list?" Let's compare CF against some others (I'm going to somewhat arbitrarily pick Python, Ruby, and Groovy as the main ones).
CF excels at JEE web presentation tier development. Python and Ruby [...]

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Taco Wagon Map

By barneyb on April 12, 2007

I love taco wagons, but I can never find them.  So I made a taco wagon map on Google Maps' new My Maps feature.  There's no collaboration features built into it yet, unfortunately, but if you know of other wagons, let me know and I'll add them.

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Interesting Directions

By barneyb on April 4, 2007

I accidentally fat fingered an address in Google Maps and got this set of directions.  Pay particular attention to segment 16.

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Chris Phillips is Blogging

By barneyb on April 1, 2007

Chris Phillips (another Portland CFer) is finally blogging, which is good, because we need more tall skinny guys in the blogosphere.

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I was Interviewed!

By barneyb on March 30, 2007

cfframeworks.com did an interview with me last month on (surprise) ColdFusion frameworks, and they've just published it.

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Windows Strikes Again

By barneyb on March 19, 2007

So I just got a new HP Pavilion laptop, running Vista.  First thing to do out of the box (after waiting the 15 minutes for Windows to start the first time) was connect to the network.  No dice.  Tried everything I could think of.  Guess what fixed it.
Reboot!
Glad to know I won't have to learn [...]

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ELinks: Text-Mode Superstar

By barneyb on March 9, 2007

If you use a terminal, you owe it to yourself to check out ELinks. It's a text-mode web browser, but it's got CSS, frames, tables, mouse (including scroll wheel), tabs, bookmarks, etc.  I spend a lot of time SSHed into remote boxes, and having a local browser makes things so much easier.  Windowed would be [...]

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Great Video

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Not work safe (unless you've got headphones), but a great video none the less.  Very creative.

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