http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm ColdFusion developer charlie griefer talks and wonders if anybody listens. en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:44:33 -0500 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:46:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss charlie@griefer.com charlie@griefer.com http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/29/MAX-2009-ColdFusion-Unconference What, you may ask, is an Unconference? As per Adobe's MAX site: Visit the Adobe ColdFusion® unconference area to participate in advanced tutorials and code show-and-tells. Share your latest cool code creations and explain how you built them... ColdFusion conferences Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:46:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/29/MAX-2009-ColdFusion-Unconference http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/13/Book-Review--Becoming-Agile-in-an-Imperfect-World I have a confession to make. I don't know what "Agile Programming" is. At least, I didn't before reading "Becoming Agile ... in an imperfect world" by Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky (In the interest of full disclosure, I was fortunate enough to rec... [More] general tools of the trade Wed, 13 May 2009 21:42:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/5/13/Book-Review--Becoming-Agile-in-an-Imperfect-World http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/19/Chromifying-Firefox I'm a big fan of Mozilla's Firefox browser for web development. It's got a number of tools that I just couldn't imagine doing without. ColorZilla, Web Developer Toolbar, and of course, Firebug (just to name a few). But as time went on, I found t... [More] ColdFusion tools of the trade Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:42:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/19/Chromifying-Firefox http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/19/PostMaster-Cleanse-Update Not surprisingly, my previous post on my Master Cleanse experience garnered reactions that ran the gamut from curious to supportive to "that's a load of woo". Most posts that I've seen on the subject garner the same widespread reaction. What I've ... [More] way off-topic Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:56:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/19/PostMaster-Cleanse-Update http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/30/30-Days-of-the-Master-Cleanse Today wraps up day 30 of a master cleanse. I dropped a total of 29.1 lbs, and plan to go another day (or maybe two). Over the past year or so, I've been way too sedentary. More so than usual. I'd sit in front of the computer at work all day, co... [More] way off-topic Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:23:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/30/30-Days-of-the-Master-Cleanse http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/19/Google-Calendar-Syncs-with-iPhone My wife and I are both Google Calendar users. We like the convenience of having access to our calendars anyplace we have web access, and we like being able to see each other's events on our own calendars. A few weeks back, I spent the better part... way off-topic iPhone Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:24:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/19/Google-Calendar-Syncs-with-iPhone http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/18/ColdFusion-8-Docs-on-AIR Today in the #coldfusion channel on IRC (DALnet), somebody asked about a downloadable version of the ColdFusion documentation. I first suggested that he look at his local system since you can include the docs as part of your CF install, but he appar... ColdFusion Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:09:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/18/ColdFusion-8-Docs-on-AIR http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/2/iPhone-Case-and-Screen-Protector After picking up my new iPhone a few weeks back, one of the first things I did was purchase a case. I wanted something to protect it from accidental drops, as well as something to protect the screen from scratches. I'm not a big belt-clip fan, so w... [More] way off-topic iPhone Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:53:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/2/2/iPhone-Case-and-Screen-Protector http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/27/RealWorld-OO-Programming--Ill-be-There Registration... check. Hotel room reserved... check. Flight booked... check. Sunday February 22nd I start the cross-country journey from San Jose to Sarasota for a week of training with Hal Helms. The course is Real-World OO Programming, and I'... ColdFusion going OO conferences Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:26:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/27/RealWorld-OO-Programming--Ill-be-There http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/16/Helping-out-Joe-and-Dale It's been almost a month since Joe Rinehart, one of the superstars of the ColdFusion community, and an all-around good guy, revealed that his wife Dale had been recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). To get right to the point, some folks... ColdFusion general Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:12:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/16/Helping-out-Joe-and-Dale http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/5/iPhone--apps-worth-having following up on my mini-review of the iPhone, i thought i'd post a list of the apps that i've installed over the past week, and quick thoughts on each. IMO, it's really the apps that set the device apart from other phones. sure, the touch screen is... [More] way off-topic iPhone Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:16:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/5/iPhone--apps-worth-having http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/5/iPhone--iGotz-one a couple of days after x-mas, with the blessing and well-wishes of my lovely wife, i headed down to the local at&t store to pick up my x-mas present. a shiny new 8GB iPhone 3G. i hadn't really been big on wanting one in the past. i've had window... [More] way off-topic iPhone Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:08:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/5/iPhone--iGotz-one http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/12/12/are-you-OOready the much anticipated new-look of the http://www.halhelms.com web site was unveiled today. aside from the face-lift is an assessment to determine your "OO-Readiness". of course, i failed miserably with a score of 46.9%. altho admittedly that's about... ColdFusion going OO Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:45:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/12/12/are-you-OOready http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/9/follow-me-on-the-amcomtech-blog over at amcom the boss has been asking us developer types to make use of the amcom technology blog a bit more than we had been. ok, a bit more than *i* had been (jon messer's been an animal posting about coldbox and transitioning from procedural to ... ColdFusion general Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/9/follow-me-on-the-amcomtech-blog http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/8/comment-moderation-is-now-on- as much as i hate to do this, i'm getting tired of the loser(s) posting WoW spam links in the comments. i don't particularly mind cleaning 'em up... but for the 3 or 4 people that actually cared enough to subscribe to the blog... i really don't like... general Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:43:00 -0500 http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/8/comment-moderation-is-now-on-