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Archive for May, 2007

Free CF8 trial hosting

Ray Camden is reporting that HostMySite is offering a free CF8 hosting account to tryout CF8. If for some reason you don’t run anything locally or can’t under penalty of death mess up your dev environment this is a good solution.

Scorpio ColdFusion 8 Public Beta Out!

Get it while it’s HOT! I’ve installed it and am going to start playing around with the CFForm stuff. YAY!

ColdFusion… A Dead Skill?

Computer World has an article about the top 10 “dying” or dead computer skills. Low and behold ColdFusion is listed. I am getting sick and tired of people dissing CF. I really think that all the negative is due to the fact that it has been around for so long. In the world of fly-by-night [...]

Hi I’m Ruby on Rails

I have to say I am not the fanboi of RoR and I think to compare Rails to a language is kind of dumb… but all that aside these are pretty funny. I think more because the opposing languages are represented so well. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1NVfDlU6yQ] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EIrSM8dCA]

Wanted: Forta AKA…

Well I got the opportunity to meet the great Ben Forta last week when he came to Nashville on the Scorpio tour 2007 (t-shirts pending). It was an awesome time and I can’t wait for Scorpio to come out. In Forta’s blog he links to a picture that just about sums it all up… just [...]