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This blog is dedicated to my musings and are strictly my own. I use it to write about all things software, hardware and aviation. The views and opinions on this site strictly reflect that of my own, and not my employer. At any point I can change my mind, and they may not even reflect my opinions from three minutes ago, so please don't take anything I say too seriously. Some of the software topics on this blog will probably include ColdFusion, C#, .NET Core, Node.js, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, C++. As commercial pilot I will be writing about General Aviation, the Airlines, instrument flying, avionics, the Federal Aviation Administration and the TSA.

Don't Mess with Mike from Breaking Bad

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1/17/2011I am a big fan of the show Breaking Bad on AMC. This is my favorate scene from the season 3 finale. Don't mess with Mike....

Don't buy Intel based Mac if you are a graphics professional

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1/17/2011A firend of mine is a graphics professional, and he asked me if he should get a Intel based iMac for his job. I told him absolutely not! Alright, I know what you are saying. "David, you are a mac guy,...

.NET being ported to Mac OS X?

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1/17/2011I recently read that Microsoft is thinking about porting .NET to Mac OS X. As a developer, I think this would be awesome if they did. I use .NET at work now when I can not use ColdFusion. James Goslin...

Studio 8 also adds XSLT support

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1/17/2011I was looking at some more information on Dreamweaver 8, and it looks like they are adding support for xslt. From there website, they state that you can drag and drop XML objects into your template, a...

Studio 8

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1/17/2011I was just checking out the new Studio 8 on macromedia's web site. I checked out a video presentation on Dreamweaver 8\\. The coolest features I saw had to do with css and different views including th...

Drummer Jeff Wood Passes Away

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1/17/2011I just learned today from a friend of mine that a Tampa based Drummer Jeff Wood passed away. I had the pleasure of knowing Jeff when he was the drummer in Barely Pink. Jeff was diagnosed with brain ca...

Duck typing is not about performance

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1/17/2011Sean Corfield has made some good observations on his \blog\ about duct typing. You should not duct type solely for performance. One of the things that makes ColdFusion a rapid language for development...

DVD Format war gauntlet thrown

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1/17/2011\DVD Format war gauntlet thrown.\ Toshiba has thrown down the gauntlet. Sony and Toshiba will have two different formats for High Def video. Consumers be damned....

Encapsulating your Business Logic in CFCs vs Stored Procedures

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1/17/2011John Lyons had a \post\ about whether to encapsulate your business logic in CFCs vs. Stored Procedures. The answer to this question is "it depends". I used to work at a company that used SQL Server st...

Enterprise Library Oracle and SQL Server Parameter Tokens

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1/17/2011I have been using the DAAB part of the Enterprise Library at my current job. One of the advantages of using this library is that you can write ANSI standard SQL, and it should work with any Relational...

Ethics of Open source to commercial software

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1/17/2011I have not seen a lot of discussion on open source projects that move to commercial products. I have noticed a couple of open source projects lately that have been abandoned, and the authors have sinc...

Fedora Core 4 ColdFusion shutdown problems

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1/17/2011A friend of mine is having problems trying to shutdown ColdFusion MX 7 on fedora core 4\\. He logs in to root and gets the following error when he uses the stop command; /opt/coldfusionmx7/bin/coldfu...

Fekke.com now running SQL Server 2005

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1/17/2011My web site is running on SQL Server 2005! I wish I could take credit for it, but my service provider, \Mercury New Media\, just upgraded to SQL Server 2005 for most of their customers. I have been ru...

File Explorer changes in CFEclipse causes problems in Flex Builder

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1/17/2011I upgraded to the new version of CFEclipse this morning to 1.3.1.1\\. The changes that have been made since 1.3 have been changes to the File Explorer. I am not using the regular version of Eclipse, I...

File Watcher Event gateway CFC for Jpeg thumbnail resizing

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1/17/2011I gave a presentation last year on the Event Gateway for ColdFusion MX 7\\. John Lyons asked me to post the code for the CFC I used in my presentation to my blog. The way this code works is that it us...

First Coast Head Race

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1/17/2011I have been lite on my blogging lately. I have been training for the First Coast Head Race here in Jacksonville. It is a 5K crew regatta. The last race I went to was the World Masters Championships in...

Fixing 'unstable indexes' on Oracle 10g database servers

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1/17/2011I work with an application that can update the database schema of on Oracle database. Sometimes when the application updates the database with a DDL script I will get an unstable indexes error. Rebuil...

Flash developers needed in Fernandina Beach, Fl.

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1/17/2011\www.pryoritytraining.com\ is looking for two Flash developers who are familiar with Flash 8 and AS 2\\. Here ae a list of requirements; \* function to retrieve data from an XML file. \* modify (custo...

Flash, Flex and more Flash at MAX

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1/17/2011I just finished watching the second day keynote at MAX. There was a lot of focus on Flash video, Flash lite, the next generation of Flash as well as Breeze. Adobe and Macromedia shared a demo on how t...

Flex 2 presentation at JaxFusion August 1st meeting

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1/17/2011I just got back from California last week where I was receiving training at the Adobe campus on Flex 2\\. I am by no means an expert yet, but I figured this would be a good opportunity to present on h...

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