News by Derek Perez

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Interview at D5

1 Jun 04:42
This is really a fun interview, I wanted to share it with you folks. Highly Recommended.

ColdFusion Scorpio Is Officially On Adobe Labs!

30 May 15:12
You heard it right folks! Get it while its hot! Adobe has released the public beta of ColdFusion Scorpio out to the public. Go to labs and get your copy now! Hooray!

LOLCODE: Quite possibly the best idea ever?

30 May 04:55
It seems that out there in the internets, there are a group of people who love lolcats so much that they are developing a programming language based on their syntax of communication. Its called LOLCODE, the entire language is in ALL CAPS and it sports conditional processing (O RLY?[if] / YA RLY?[then] /NO WAI [else]), [...

ColdFusion Dead?; Adobe’s New Marketing Responsibility

26 May 01:19
Recent articles have been published by certain magazine companies that have seemed to really piss off our ColdFusion community. Statements that the language is being “superseded by other development platforms” or questions about ColdFusion’s “robustness” are the digital equivalent of throwing a rock at the CF hornet’s nest and have incited a large amount of [...

My Apartment Is Now Powered By OpenDNS

25 May 01:33
Last night, I ran across someone mentioning a service called OpenDNS. It sounded familiar, but I couldn’t remember what it was, so I decided to go check out their website. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t what I expected it to be: OpenDNS helps you navigate the Internet in a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable [...

Don’t Waste Your Money/Time On Vonage

17 May 01:38
Being a nerd, I really wanted to embrace this technology, Vonage seemed like a really cool alternative to phone service, it was relatively inexpensive (because at the time I needed long distance, cheap) and they offered some really cool features…and it was only a month to month low cost fee of $29.99! Seems too good [...

BACFUG May 16th: Paul Kenney On Test Driven Development

12 May 11:47
Come see Paul Kenney do a replay of his Test Driven Development Presentation that he gave at this years CF.Objective in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Paul is the author of CfcUnit (which is part of the xUnit Family), and is currently employed by Adobe Systems as a member of their hosted services division. This will be a [...

CF Tip: Convert CSV to Query Easily with CFHTTP!

12 May 04:09
Recently, I had a client come to me with a gigantic csv file that needed to be imported into a database application I was writing for them. This task never really scares me….I tend to go to cflib.org and download the easy to use csvToQuery() function and just iterate through that recordset. That normally works, [...

CFObjective 2007: What A Great Conference

8 May 02:23
This conference is absolutely a must. The session were stellar, the hotel was fantastic, etc. etc. CFObjective proved itself to truly be the worlds only enterprise development conference and I definitely plan to attend next year! (can I sign up for extremely early bird now?) I posted a bunch of photos to the cfobjective photo [...

Hello From CFObjective!

5 May 01:22
This conference is FANTASTIC! If you aren’t here, then shame on you :). I am really impressed with how well this conference is going, the topics and speakers are interesting, and the actual hotel itself is fabulous! Check out my flickr set for photos of the previous day(s), I will update it nightly with the [...
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