Kay Smoljak
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Tour de ColdFusion
June 29, 2010
Tour de ColdFusion
I’m always looking for faster, easier to use reference materials, so I was pretty stoked to hear about Tour de ColdFusion via Raymond Camden. Tour de ColdFusion is an AIR application that incorporates the CF documentation with examples and results. It’s only in beta but from the brief click around I had it looks very cool [...]
Death by caffeine
May 27, 2010
Death by caffeine
Caffeine is important to the productivity of geeks. Well, of anyone, I suppose. I had a wicked caffeine addiction that I managed to kick by travelling in Europe for 3 weeks in 2008. The combination of not being able to get good coffee, hanging out with people who didn’t have an urgent need to [...]
Complete the humorous history of programming languages
May 23, 2010
Complete the humorous history of programming languages
Circulating the nerd-o-sphere at the moment: A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. This stuff is pure gold. Some examples: 1940s – Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate. … 1964 – John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an [...]
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Site archiving
May 19, 2010
Site archiving
Sometimes, web sites reach the end of their lives, and continuing to host them for archival purposes is not a responsibility or expense that anyone wants to go to. Personally I hate the idea – after all, the W3C’s commandment that “cool URIs don’t change” has been stamped into me over the years – [...]
An epiphany on the nature of problem-solving whilst weeding…
May 17, 2010
An epiphany on the nature of problem-solving whilst weeding…
Photo: Black kangaroo paws in the dying sunlight I have not been, traditionally, much of a gardener. In fact, we built and moved into our house over 6 years ago and up until last month we have not had any kind of garden at all. The reasons for this are multiple: I don’t like the [...]
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