In the last two days I have blown the dust film off of the old C++ compiler and jumped back into the world of graphic programming in OpenGL. I have maintained a fantasy for many years now of getting into game programming. Being such a fascinating and challenging area of...

It’s funny the little things you miss as you use a programming language. Although not considered the longestamount of time, I have been using ColdFusion for over 4 years now. I’ve worked with CFC’s, frameworks, performance tuning, reflection, advanced Java techniques, and more, but somehow seemed to missed one of...

Today Maryanne, the kids and I joined the whole family gang at the Dallas World Aquarium for some fishy fun. Although fairly cool outside the sun was shining and it turned out to be a nice day for an outing. The Dallas Aquarium is a decent enough exhibit, featuring plenty...

I’ve been doing a lot of development using ExtJS, which involves a lot of AJAX work. And for anyone who has ever used AJAX you know you must deal with JSON. JSON is fine and dandy, and is certainly the best way to get compact data from a remote call...

For several days now I have been fighting with my computer to get Apache configured so that I can access the site I’m working on, not only from the inside, but also from the outside for demo purposes. I already knew about the UAS stuff everybody warns you about with...

For those that know me it comes as no surprise to learn I grew up in a hick town in north-east Texas. And in that area I have certainly seen my share of interesting hick-culture. I had not, however, seen anything quite like a Big Lots, which I just had...

At Ben Nadel’s Blog, which I enjoy reading simply because he has a similar passion to me (digging into how and why it works under the hood), he talked about calling Java functions in ColdFusion that require an actual value array instead of a vector, which is what ColdFusion’s arrays...

Yesterday we took the kids across the street to the Abbey Hill park. It is a nice little park with a nice play area and gazebo with park benches, all paid for by the members of the Abbey Hill Park HOA. In an effort to get people out of their...

Last week we also celebrated Taylor’s 8th birthday down here in the neighborhood park. It was a beautiful day, but SUPER WINDY!! We had to tape everything down with 6-pounds of tape! Grandma and Grandpa showed up, as well as my folks and siblings. Niece Laura made it too. She’s...

Last weekend Maryanne and I went to a little Halloween party at a friend’s house. Plenty of alcohol on the table, and music on the Ipod, we had a pretty good time. Nevermind the … “things” hanging from the ceiling fan.