While I think the venerable Ruby on Rails Tutorial is still the best way to learn Rails, jumping into this tutorial can be challenging for those who are new to programming. With the fourth and latest beta of Rails 5 being released this past week, it is appropriate that Michael Hartl, the creator of the … Read more
In the course of moving an application from ColdFusion 8 to ColdFusion 11, I came across some strange behavior caused by the CFAJAXPROXY tag. In CF8, a particular CFCOMPONENT called ProjectBeanService had proxies set up for its methods in the rendered JavaScript like this: However, in CF11, more proxies were created: This made no sense … Read more
Like so many developers are, I am the IT guy for my family as well as being one “in real life”. Today, I was confronted with an issue that was one of those hardware-related issues that crop up from time to time, and those can be just as difficult (if not more so) than software … Read more