News by Derek Perez

ColdFusion Isn’t Dead, Its Never Lived; Dynamic Languages Reign Supreme

14 Sep 03:08
There is something in the ColdFusion world I think that many of us have just blatantly missed as developers, and I’ll tell you about something my eyes have just been opened to. I’d like to say I have a pretty firm grasp of OO design patterns, (hell, even J2EE design patterns) and I swear by them. [...

ColdFusion Isn’t Dead, Its Never Lived; Dynamic Languages Reign Supreme

14 Sep 01:32
There is something in the ColdFusion world I think that many of us have just blatantly missed as developers, and I’ll tell you about something my eyes have just been opened to. I’d like to say I have a pretty firm grasp of OO design patterns, (hell, even J2EE design patterns) and I swear by them. [...

Reading List

18 Aug 05:47
In case anyone is running low on good books to read, and I have been meaning to put up a listing of books I’ve read and what I’ve thought about them, check out the reading list I just posted on my blog. I don’t really center around any one type of book, I like to [...

Technology Fear; Lets Talk About The Future

18 Aug 02:32
There is one thing that continues to rear its misinformed head at me no matter where I seem to work, and that is fear of technology for fear’s sake. its Intriguing to me because a lot of the times, Companies are aware of technologies that could potentially make them more money, but also, I’ve run [...

IsInstanceOf(); Possibly one of the coolest functions in CF8

14 Aug 15:00
IsInstanceOf is great, its a function that you really don’t realize its coolness level until you’ve had a case where it made sense to utilize it. Well, tonight, I found a good use for it. I have given myself the task of writing a flexible authentication system that did not conform to any specific login [...

Wishing I Was At CFUNITED!

27 Jun 02:15
Unfortunately, I could not attend CFUNITED this year…I am very jealous of all the people who are there now having fun :(. But! Next year! I am going to make it a priority to be there. I plan to attend cf.objective() and CFUNITED no matter what (I hope :P). Hope everyone is having a fun [...

Model-Glue 2: Unity Has Been Released!

27 Jun 02:03
Joe Made good on his promise and Model-Glue 2 has been released right at the beginning of the CFUNITED 2007 Conference! I am really excited, this is definitely one of my favourite frameworks of all times, and I want to congratulate everyone on the MG Team for making this release a reality!  If you don’t [...

Anyone Recommend a Good Drawing Program For OS X?

9 Jun 15:18
I sometimes like to work with data visually, it helps me see what I am doing sometimes and makes things easier to deal with at times. I used to use Visio a bunch on the Windows platform, but now that I use a Mac, I have no idea whats a good software title to accomplish [...

Mac OS X To Utilize Sun’s ZFS File System In Upcoming Leopard Release

9 Jun 14:11
According to this article, Sun Microsystems has let the cat out of the bag that the upcoming release of Mac OS X Leopard will be using Sun’s ZFS File System. ZFS is the world’s first 128-bit file system, supporting 18 billion times the storage capacity of current-generation 64-bit systems. A zettabyte is equal to 1,024 exabytes [...

DateCollection: An Object To Help You Work With Dates and Data Easily In ColdFusion!

2 Jun 07:23
Recently, I have been doing a lot of work with Flex 2 chart components, and a lot of that lovely dashboard-centric code out there in the world relies pretty heavily on things like date spans. I started to set out to build a function really quick that could serve up that data in a nice [...
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