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Why, Microsoft, Why?

By barneyb on September 10, 2008

I've had the unfortunate luck to partially inherit sysadmin duties for the web team at Mentor (along with Joshua) after one our coworkers left.  While I don't necessarily mind a sysadmin role, almost all of the infrastructure is Windows.  The sole exception is our Subversion server, which is Linux, and only because I migrated everything [...]

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Stream Layouts

By barneyb on September 5, 2008

No, I'm not talking about those things full of water running down the mountainside, I'm talking about how you assemble a full HTML (or whatever) page from a webapp.  Being a Trac user, I've done a bit with Genshi, and then with Grails used SiteMesh, both of which are stream-based engines.  I'd always though the [...]

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Hibernate for CF (and a new TransactionAdvice)

By barneyb on August 19, 2008

Since I added Hibernate support to CF Groovy, I've been using that for pretty much all new development.  Oh, how nice it is.  The perm-gen issue is still lingering, but if after a few projects, I've realized that you don't actually end up touching your persistent entities that much, so it's not as big a [...]

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Weka Mining Update: It Works!

Weka Mining Update: It Works!

By barneyb on July 24, 2008

Back in April, I posted about how I was using Weka to do some asset prioritization.  The gist of it was that users would rank assets on a 1-5 scale, and then then the system would recommend other assets that it thought they'd like.  This is the Netflix problem, if you're familiar with that, though [...]

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MX Unit is Slick

By barneyb on July 18, 2008

After seeing that MX Unit on Railo had some issues, I switched over to ColdFusion and I'm impressed.  Marc, Bill, et al have done a really great job.  They've resolved a number of issues that I had with CFCUnit, and really embraced the "Integrated" in "Integrated Development Environment."
I know I'm late to the party, but [...]

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No MXUnit For Railo

By barneyb on July 18, 2008

I just pulled down the 1.0 release of MX Unit, and was most disappointed to see that it only works on ColdFusion:
…blah…
no definition for the class … [coldfusion.cfc.CFCProxy] could be found
…blah…
Since I do most of my CFML development on Railo now, it kind of leaves me stuck.  Fortunately, CFCUnit works flawlessly, but with it's definitely [...]

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CF Groovy 1.0RC (With Hibernate!)

By barneyb on July 12, 2008

I've just released 1.0RC of CF Groovy, including Hibernate support.  You can download it, or view the demo app.  The download includes both the demo and the runtime engine.
The big new feature is Hibernate support, of course.  Here are a couple snippets from the demo app.  First, the entity class:
package com.barneyb

import javax.persistence.*

@Entity
class User extends AbstractEntity [...]

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Junction, from Sysinternals

By barneyb on July 9, 2008

I discovered Junction today, while looking for a way to easily test my Groovy/Hibernate integration on all three major CFML runtimes.  It's part of Sysinternals, which is a suite of tools aimed at making Windows not suck so much.  It's got all the low-level utilities you need to efficiently manage and monitor your Windows machines [...]

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CF Groovy Redux

By barneyb on July 2, 2008

I just got through significantly revamping CF Groovy so that it's CFC based, instead of all in the custom tags.  The custom tags remain, but now you can create and manage a CF Groovy runtime instance manually, rather than letting the tags do it for you.  This will greatly assist in production performance as the [...]

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Query/Reporting DSL Bug Fix

By barneyb on June 26, 2008

Rob Pilic found a couple local variables that I (gasp!) forgot to var scope in the DSL implementations while he was troubleshooting some concurrency issues.  There was one in each file, though totally unrelated.  I've applied his patch to Subversion and updated the demo install (though it won't matter, because it doesn't share instances).

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