Let me start by first off saying, I am a fan of SVN in my personal projects, and I utilize Trac on a regular basis…but this discussion will focus more on the the feasiblity of migrating from and existing CVS server to SVN, primarily. eCom utilizes CVS repositories for storing our various client’s codebases and everything [...

So far, the job has been fantastic! Everyone is really friendly and the work I am doing is fascinating. I have never had a “true” cubical, so even that is exciting to me. For the first month, I am considered a “full-time contractor”, who just happens to come into the office daily and have his [...

It took a little bit of doing, but I am up and running with WordPress 2.1.1! not a lot of noticible changes (as of yet, but the did make a lot of changes to the text editor now, its better). the upgrade wasn’t too bad either, just ran the upgrade.php file and there it was!

I have been trying to avoid doing this for a while, but it seems inevitable at this point. I am changing my current email address (which is perezd (at) fmailbox (dot) com) to my new email address: derek (at) derekperez (dot) com. I have setup a forwarder at my fmailbox account to send to my [...

I just saw this on digg and had to give a link to it. Philips “Drag and Draw” technology, empowering kids to draw on walls…without a mess!

Okay, so the problem it looks like has to do with my workflow in eclipse and ColdFusion, but I have figured out a way to solve the problem. But, I wanted to document my workflow so that I have it written and can refer back to it if necessary. My workflow utilizes a lot of eclipse [...

I ran across the need to change the port that the built-in ColdFusion webserver relies on…heres how you do it: go to cf_root/runtime/servers/coldfusion/SERVER-INF edit jrun.xml look for a line with class=”jrun.servlets.http.WebService” change the child attribute named “port” to whatever port number you desire. (should be default: 8500) There you have it! I ran across these instructions in the coldfusion livedocs, [...

I spent a good hour trying to get this tool running in my workspace, and no luck whatsoever! It installs properly, it configs properly, but when I go to execute a debug…nothing happens. I emailed their tech support, so lets see if that gets me anywhere…but so far I am not impressed with the “simplicity” [...

Now that I am working on a lot of different projects simultaneously for different organizations, there has come a need to be more pragmatic about my development and deployment workflow. I already utilize eclipse IDE on a regular basis, and I kept reading bits and pieces about this build technology known as ant, but I [...

Today was my last day at Graphic Language, it was strange…there wasn’t much fanfare it just, ended? Probably better that way. I did enjoy getting paid today (without the parking ticket expense), I decided to buy myself Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas which has managed to frustrate me to the extent that I decided that [...