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Archive for May, 2009

Job Opening! Work with Me! Now with Job Description!

Here is our standard job description for those interested. Sr. Web Application Developer – ColdFusion eCivis, a known leader in providing web-based applications solutions to local governments (software as a service) is seeking an advanced-level programmer who lives to push ColdFusion and object-oriented web development to the edge. If you are interested in working with [...]

Great Overview of New Credit Card Regulation

This NY Times are article does a pretty decent job. Read more @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/your-money/20money.html?hp.

Assembla? Codespaces? Unfuddle? Looking for your input!

Guys, hoping you can help me out. I’m looking to move our company away from using SourceForge OnDemand (now CollabNet), towards something a bit more… fresher? In my analysis, I looked mainly at simplicity… simplicity for the developer and project manager. I’m probably missing tons, but I found some lower cost alternatives that were even [...]

Gartner Analyst Praises ColdFusion

Those who know me know that I don’t particularly care for Gartner. This is one of the few times they got it right. Favorite quote: “ColdFusion provides a potential wrapper around the complexity of Java, providing Web developers access to the power of the Java platform via the productivity of a fourth-generation language (4GL).” Read [...]

Subversion 1.6.2 Released

See the notice for details. —————————————————— I’m happy to announce Subversion 1.6.2, available from:     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.2.tar.bz2    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.2.tar.gz    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.2.zip    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.2.tar.bz2    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.2.tar.gz    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.2.zip Release notes for the 1.6.x release series may be found at:     http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html You can find the list of changes between 1.6.2 and earlier versions at:     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.6.2/CHANGES Questions, comments, and bug reports to [...]

Need Recommendation – Search Engine Optimization

Has anyone worked with a solid SEO firm that they can recommend?

Railo's Support Structure Seems Weird

Sean Corfield made an entry on Railo Support and Consulting Services. While its nice to see a simple four level support structure, the following didn’t make sense to me: Silver -includes support for 1 server only, 5 hours of support for $1000, which is $200/hr (with an additional discount for more). I’m not sure how [...]

McAfee blasted for having holes in its Web sites!

This is hilarious. The secure site that scans other sites itself had holes! Read more @ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10234033-83.html.

Job Opening! Work with me!

We’re looking for a Sr. Web Developer/ Technical Lead / Architect type person in Southern California. You would be working on a ColdFusion-based SaaS web application. Its a very driven and dynamic company. I can’t say enough! You will be working on a product that changes the lives of millions. Obviously our application is built [...]

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