With Adobe's purchase of Macromedia, CF developers are rightly worried about the future of ColdFusion. For 2-3 years, I've felt like Cassandra, warning CF developers that the future didn't look bright for ColdFusion.

This week, I'm teaching my Designing and Developing OO Apps with CFCs class. The students in this class are really bright people (including a Mathematics professor from the University of Bolgna in Italy), but learning OO is hard work.

Allen Holub has written an article for Software Development Magazine in which he argues that computer programming belongs not so much to mathematics as it does to creative writing.

I've been doing a lot of training lately and that often means traveling. I'm a frequent customer of Marriott and so I have elite member status. Ooh! That's worth spending 75 nights a year away from home for!

I was talking with a student recently who's just starting out on his programming journey. He's brand new to the field and was asking me some very basic questions about programming. At this point in his progress, everything is confusion.

I was talking with a student recently who's just starting out on his programming journey. He's brand new to the field and was asking me some very basic questions about programming. At this point in his progress, everything is confusion.

One of the most important parts of the Fusebox Lifecycle Process (FLiP) is the idea of prototyping to help both clients and developers discover requirements. Now, someone's created software that allows for rapid prototyping.

After John Q and I sweated to come up with Fusebox 4, I hadn't done much with the framework for a while. Last week, as part of an effort to help newbies understand FB, Jeff Peters and I wrote a little FB 4 app. What fun!

It occurs to me that there are (at least) two types of programmers. We might call them "social programmers" and "solitary programmers".

It occurs to me that there are (at least) two types of programmers. We might call them "social programmers" and "solitary programmers".