How I got started in ColdFusion...
I'm a day late to the party but, at Steve Bryant's suggestion here you have, less a quick overview of my CF origins and more a comprehensive history of my time online and in code.Scotch on the Rocks 2010 – Day One
Keynote (Adobe) Terry Ryan kicked of the first day with an indy themed KeyNote. His initial demo was of a very impressive ColdFusion builder extension. Apptacular is a code generation system that runs natively from within CFBuilder and was demoed as being able to wire up CRUD from a DB (with smart table renaming for your CFCs and methods) and a massive amount of functionality that reduced initial project setup time from a few hours to about 20 seconds. It's not everyone's cup of tea given that a lot of CF devs will use a frame work of some sort to speed up the inital development process but Apptacular was certainly an impressive demonstration of CFBuilder's extensibility and adds massive value to the IDE.Not one, not two but 6 Servers per Server
For the past 2.5 years I've maintained a dedicated server for hosting various sites, both of my own and for clients. I'd been running the same box for a while when, in January, I finally decided I needed to upgrade to a bigger, better machine with an OS I could actually patch (the old server was a Fedora Core 5 machine and Yum was borked beyond repair).Re-enabling AdBlock PlusAdBlock
For the last month I embarked on an experiment - I disabled AdBlock Plus (normally the first FireFox extension I install) in an attempt to be more supportive of the sites I visit on a daily basis. The argument against AdBlock and similar technologies is perfectly simple - websites rely on advertising to monetize and support their content production - blocking the ads means you're effectively removing any chance the content provider has of making any money out of your visit.Proud to be paranoid
Hi my name is Rob and I'm paranoid. Actually let me quantify that - Hi my name is Rob and I'm a paranoid developer. I don't mean that I spend my days imagining the worst scenarios under which my applications can fail or wondering if my clients are talking about me behind my back. No, I'm paranoid in the simplest sense - I don't trust technology. In the sphere of web application development, technology moves incredibly quickly and new libraries, classes and "concepts" are popping up daily. I can remember, without having to cast my mind back too far, the first time I heard the phrase AJAX in relation to web development (rather and toilet cleaning or Greek mythology).HTML 5 is Ex HTML
There's a lot of buzz surrounding the HTML5 project at the moment and, ignoring the fact that I can never pass up an opportunity for a pun in a post title, I felt sufficiently opinionated on the matter to warrant posting my thoughts. As ever, anyone wishing to question my credentials or right to comment on this subject would do well to remember that I've been working on, in and around the web since 1995 and, whilst I'm certainly not considered one of the key speakers on the subject of markup languages I certainly have enough practical experience to justify the points laid out below.
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