Here is a problem that we had on a recent project that we were doing maintenance on. The code had some queries with a table called as “user”. The code works fine on the production server but gave an error on our development server. The fix? Put brackets around the table name in all the […]
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Can Spiral Web predict the future of Web 2.0?
I am speaking on “Spiral Web – the future of web society” at the Web 2.0 conference in Virginia on November 1st 2007. The talk will look at what is coming in the next year for the web? What about in the next five years? How can we predict trends in websites? Spiral web provides […]
Do you need to tap the wisdom of crowds?
Companies know that you know what you want. Interactive Web 2.0 technologies are now enabling businesses to use their customers to lead product design, create content and solve problems. “Crowdsourcing”, which allows people to take part in online discussions and vote on what the company should be doing, is already starting to take off. Dell’s […]
Fusebox 5.5 beta
Check out the Fusebox 5.5 beta that Sean Corfield released the other week. There are two primary themes to Fusebox 5.5: 1. Simplify. Remove barriers. Make it easier for newbies. Make building applications faster by favoring convention over configuration. 2. Extend through extensibility. Provide new functionality outside the core. Add plugins, lexicons, even standardized circuits. […]
What do you want to see in CF 9?
Codename Centaur What do you want to see in ColdFusion 9 (codename Centaur)? Yes Kevin Lynch, Chief Architect of Adobe told the crowd of 4300 attendees at MAX the other week that work is already underway on the new version, and showed ColdFusion’s place on Adobe product roadmap. Puts to rest all that hullabaloo the […]
TeraTech Development Approach – Unit Testing, Application Integration, Deployment
This is a continuation from last months installment of the TeraTech Development Approach. 6. Unit Testing As each fuse is coded, it is unit tested against the test harness. This gives the coder a way to ensure the correct behavior is produced by the fuse, without being in constant contact with the architect. 7. Application […]
The Project Assistant
When the day starts, I take my planner, pad of paper, pen, and clear mind to my Manager’s office to “check in” and “follow up” on new and existing tasks. I try to get in a bit earlier so that I can check email, talk to the developers, and review project information. All this, to […]
Is Mahalo manual search engine web 3.0 or web -1.0?
Mahalo, the Human Search Engine The Mahalo manual search engine—named after the Hawaiian word for thank you—launched in the late 2000s with a bold idea: replace algorithms with people. Instead of crawling billions of pages, Mahalo’s editors handpicked results for the most-searched queries. At a glance, it felt like a nostalgic Web –1.0 experiment. Yet, […]
Nick’s Fusebox 101 tips
Nick has some Fusebox 101 tips at http://www.succor.co.uk/index.cfm/Fusebox-101 The first one is on XFAs, I am looking forward to more!
ColdFusion developer security guidelines
ColdFusion developer security guidelines from Adobe These ColdFusion developer security guidelines from Adobe are cool! And so much code that I review from other (best unnamed) organizations don’t follow these simple tips. Check it out at at URL below and make sure that your apps are secure! https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb22-22.html
