Viewing by month: January 2005
FarCry CMS (phase one)
Posted on Jan 18, 2005
A while back, when I owned my own business, I was researching content management systems built in ColdFusion when I stumbled upon the FarCry Content Management System built by Daemon. The demo seemed impressive and best of all, it is free and open source!
CFEclipse Issues
Posted on Jan 14, 2005
Ok. If you are a ColdFusion developer, you already know that CFEclipse is being hyped all over the place within the community. I decided to try it a couple weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised. I do have some issues with it, but most were minor (like sometimes it seems to freeze on me at awkward moments or the dictionary help getting obtrusive at times).
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Using openXML in MS SQL
Posted on Jan 13, 2005
I did this code about a month ago for a project I am currently working on for my employer. The idea behind the code was that we had a survey page that was designed to change every month. The page collected answers into XML format and stored them in a SQL table so that the table would no have to be rewritten to accomodate the different values it would have to store each month.
Google Discussion
Posted on Jan 12, 2005
Alan Williamson posted an interesting summary of An evening with Google's Marissa Mayer. Some bits are just pure fun trivia, others, while not specifically technical in nature, are useful.
Why Projects Fail
Posted on Jan 11, 2005
I was reading Mike Tangorre's blog entry the other day on Refactoring Part I. I found it quite interesting and commented on it there. It struck me in part because I am caught in the middle of a project like that and had been debating writing about it myself. The primary difference is that I am on the front end of this (i.e. creating the mess) rather than the refactoring end Mike discusses (i.e. cleaning up the mess).