Back by popular demand I have put the code for my online resume application up for download! Not too long ago I re-created my online resume in Railo using the wonderful small FW/1 framework. For the persistence layer I used Apache CouchDB and my ColdFusion wrapper for the Java CouchDB4J...

It’s been a long time since I last talked about, let alone worked on ADAM script, or Advanced Data Acquisition and Manipulation script. But last night I finally revived this project that I haven’t worked on since 2006. Yes, nearly 4 years have passed since I last even considered my...

That’s right, I said it. MailSlurper, the mostly useless mail SMTP server has been released! Not only does it slurp your mail into oblivion, but you can see those doomed emails in an administrative interface now. Woo hoo!

The last few days I decided I wanted to play around with Apache’s CouchDB, one of the more popular database engines in the No-SQL movement. For those who have never heard of it CouchDB is a database engine written in Erlang, and is an Apache Foundation project. One of the...

My friend, Mr. Steve Good, approached me about a problem he was having where he needed to add a namespace to an HTML tag at runtime. Essentially he was parsing some dynamic HTML and wished to inject an additional namespace into the HTML declaration. Regular expressions to the rescue! The...

Here is a quick way to change the default author name when using JavaDoc comments in your Eclipse projects. Simply edit your eclipse.ini file found in the root directory where you placed Eclipse. I have Eclipse at /opt/eclipse, so my path would be /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini. Once editing this file add the...

Finally, as requested, my code and slides for my Dallas TechFest 2010 presentation are available for download. If you missed it I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application (could be anything, PHP, JSP, Groovy + Grails) and incrementally spicing it up with jQuery. Click here to download the code!...

Here’s a quick little tidbit. My coworker Steve Good asked me if I knew of a quick way to merge two ColdFusion structures together, kind of like how jQuery has the $.extend() method. Well there is in fact a way to do this! And it’s super easy. Let’s say you...

Sweeeet. I got home and on my keyboard is sitting a letter from Liz Frederick at Adobe. I open it up and discover that my nifty magnetic ACP pin is in there, as well as stickers! I love stickers!

Today Maryanne and I went for another round of wedding ring shopping. I am pleased to announce that we have made our final decision and rings have been purchased for both her and myself. We ended up making our purchase at Zales from the manager Chris. It was actually a...