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CFUnited 2009

By barneyb on August 15, 2009

First, if you're looking for the goodies from my presentation, go here.
As always, CFUnited was a great conference. First, the location Liz (et al) found was great. Comfy room, lap pool, play pools, plenty of space to hang about, etc. There are advantages to being closer in to DC, but I'd come [...]

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CFUnited (CFGroovy) Goodies

By barneyb on August 13, 2009

I presented CFGroovy: Groovy for the CFML Developer this year at CFUnited.  For the millions of you who wished you could have attended my presentation but were unable to make it, I've graciously made everything available for download.
If you just want the (very thin) slides, they are available in PPT and PDF format.
There is also [...]

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An Ink Free Year

By barneyb on June 11, 2009

Yesterday I turned 29.  One year older on the clock, and about 20 years older in effect.  I'd planned on getting a leaf tattooed on my right calf as a birthday present, but like so much else, it didn't work out.  Since I turned 18, I've gone and had birthday tattoos more than half the [...]

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First Person Documentation

By barneyb on June 2, 2009

I'm not sure when I started, but I've documented things in the first person for quite a while.  Fusedocs promoted this format, and was probably a significant influence, though I recall doing it back in college as well.  It's clearly not new or uncommon, but I just had a gentleman email me about it (based [...]

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Shoot the Engineers

By barneyb on May 26, 2009

About a week ago, Marc Funaro wrote an interesting blog post about CFML and OO.  The prevailing opinion (via Twitter, blogs, etc) is that Marc is incorrect/inaccurate/inexperienced/whatever, and I disagree completely.  He hit the nail on the head.
HTTP is a stateless, request-response environment.  Nearly all web applications interface with a SQL database, which is also [...]

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My First cf.objective()

By barneyb on May 26, 2009

I know I'm late to the "cf.objective() recap" party, but I've been both crazy busy and rather tired, so I haven't got to it until now.
First, I'd never been to Minneapolis before, and from the little I saw, it's a pretty nice place.  Obviously I missed the "buried under snow" part, and that definitely puts [...]

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PotD For The World

By barneyb on May 16, 2009

Last night was sort of the release of Pic of the Day (not safe for work, or my mom) into the wild.  The project is a couple months shy of five years old, and while I've talked about it obliquely all over the place, I've never really publicized it directly.  I'd made the assumption that [...]

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Das "Most Disappointing" Keyboard

Das "Most Disappointing" Keyboard

By barneyb on May 12, 2009

As you probably know, I got a Das Keyboard a little while ago, because my previous keyboard, which I liked very much, started getting a couple sticky keys.  I'll freely admit I'm a keyboard snob, but I don't think it's terribly unreasonable given how much time I spend typing.  Unfortunately, Das Keyboard has proven to [...]

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NaturallyCarolicious.com Is Live

By barneyb on May 11, 2009

One of my WordPress projects was helping a friend move her blog from TypePad over to a self-hosted WordPress with a shiny new domain name: naturallycarolicious.com.  As of today she's made the official "welcome" post, and the new site is running like a champ.  She's still some design stuff, but that's just icing on the [...]

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Happy Mother's Day

By barneyb on May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there.  In particular:

Barney and Peggy's mother

All these mothers too, of course:

Lindsay and Emery's mother
Richard, Thomas, Robert, Dorothy, Dolores, and Carolyn's mother
Susan, Thomas, Gerald, and Renee's late mother
Nikolai and Gabriel's mother
Adelaide's late mother
Adalina and Matteo's mother
Christopher, Moira, Iain, and Michaela's mother
Teresa, Matthew, Anthony, and Maggie's mother
Sally and Marie's mother
Sarah, [...]

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