In the past, I've dabbled with Node.js (a server-side JavaScript runtime environment) on my local MacBook Pro. If you know JavaScript, it's not too hard to get something up and running on your local machine. Putting Node.js out into the wild, however, is whole other beast. Not only am I mediocre at managing web servers in general, I happen to know almost nothing about Amaz ... Read More »

It's possible that AsFusion was bitten by the app bug. Soon after releasing Conqu, we decided to create another app called OnePound. This app was smaller and less ambitious than Conqu so we were able to complete it in just a few weeks time. OnePound is a weight tracking app for Android tablets, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the Nook. We decided to target these platforms specifically because we felt a decent app was not available in those markets. When we set out to create OnePound, we wanted a design that was aesthetically pleasing to both men and woman, and easy to

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them. This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site. I think I got tired of

Earlier this week I began implementing a DynamoDB solution for a client. DynamoDB is a NoSQL solution long ago planned but only recently released on Amazon Web Services. It is more closely related to Cassandra than MongoDB or CouchDB but offers some interesting and enticing features (e.g., all DynamoDB tables exist on SSDs, so the I/O is pretty damn fast!).  My client's site is built with CFML and runs on Tomcat/Railo 3.3.1 (to be upgraded to 3.3.2 this weekend) on a load-balanced EC2 instance that employs several other AWS services, such as a MySQL DB on RDS, S3, CloudFront and

Just a few weeks ago I resigned from my position at Wharton Computing. I'll be moving on to work with my friend Steve Rittler, at his company CounterMarch Systems. I am eternally grateful for the friendships forged and experiences gained during my time at Wharton, but all good things must come to an end. The upshot is that since I will be working from home full time I will have back the 3 hours of each day that I previously spent commuting; which means I'll be able to spend more time with my family, and one thing in particular that

I’m currently working on an HTML/JavaScript application that allows you to author content entirely on the client. I want to let users download that content and save it locally, but without bouncing it off a server. After some trial and error, I have it working fairly well using a data URI. Rather than explain it, [...]

Thibault Imbert has written a great post Introducing Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 Beta 4 and Stage 3D support.

A busy week (or so) of posts. The hot topic lately seems to be not just Stage3 but specifically 2D game development using Stage3D. Each week seems to bring upates to new or existing game engines and frameworks for 2D game development as well as tutorials on the topic. This week is no exception.

Validating forms with JavaScript has been possible since the very beginning of time... or at least the introduction of LiveScript (the original name before the marketing drones got ahold of it). While it's not particular new or as exciting as Canvas ...

The Muse is a slow moving tools user. I just switched to CF Builder about a year ago in fact. Before that I was using CF Eclipse. I still use the venerable Homesite for quick troubleshooting on production servers or to review code. I'm using it t...

Most online developer API services that I've used are set up as if the customer is also the software developer. That should change. As the software developer, I don't want to be the owner of my customer's accounts, and I don't want to worry about trying to figure out how to transfer ownership (if your service allows it, that is). Because of that, theres a lot of waste that goes on: wastes of my time, which wastes my customer's or my company's money. I'm saying "customer" here, but you might substitute that with "the person who really needs / cares

This kind of rollback does nothing except help Asda with their stats i.e. "Rolling back 1000's of prices". I know, technically yes its a rollback, but really come'on.

FireLogger is server logger console for Firebug with built-in support for Python and PHP. CF-FireLogger adds ColdFusion support to FireLogger, enabling logging of information from within ColdFusion code directly to the Firebug/FireLogger console.

Disclaimer: In 2007, sys-con closed down the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and I wanted to post all the articles I had written to this site. I started, but got distracted on other things. I'm performing a purge of my digital archives and found the articles. At this point they are posted here more for my own archival purposes than because anyone is longing to read them. This article is being reposted in accordance to my contract with sys-con. I had them change the default contract so that I could post articles on my personal site. Before CF Builder existed, a lot

Yesterday, I tried to apply some deep thinking to how dependencies should be managed in a modular JavaScript application architecture that is using RequireJS . The conclusion that I came to was that RequireJS should manage and load "definitions" while your application should manage and load "instances." This makes sense since instantiation is the domain of your business ... Read More »