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Don’t be Scared of Hiring out of State Employees – Here’s how Alagad Did It

August 15th, 2010

Anyone who’s ever hired employees for their business knows that it can be an intimidating hurdle to get past.  Beyond the difficulty of picking the right person, you’ve also got a lot of details to take care of.  You’ll …

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A Technical Pecha Kucha Con?

August 15th, 2010

This year I was introduced to the Pecha Kucha presentation format.  For those not familiar with it, Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-cha koo-cha) originated in Japan and translates as “the sound of conversation” or “chit-chat”.  A Pecha Kucha presentation lasts …

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A Handy Way To Convert US Time Zones

August 15th, 2010

Today’s blog entry is a bit off my typical subjects on this blog.  But, as someone who works from home for clients across the US, I often have to figure out what, for example, 9am Eastern Time is in …

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A Quick Overview of Graphing Databases

August 15th, 2010

I recently started work on a new project which, to avoid getting into too many details, is a social media application with similarities to Twitter, Facebook, and FourSquare – though it is not a clone of any of these!
This …

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CFUnited 2010 – This Is Your Last Chance!

August 15th, 2010

I wanted to take a moment and let those developers in the ColdFusion community who haven’t already heard know that this is the last year for CFUnited.  Sadly, I’ve heard that it’s lost money the last few years and …

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Dan Wilson Will Kick Ass at CFUnited

August 15th, 2010

Last Thursday the local Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group (TACFUG) held a meeting where our very own Dan Wilson gave preview presentations of two of the four presentations he’ll be giving at CFUnited in the next week.
The first presentation …

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An Introduction To NodeJS, A JavaScript-Based Server

August 15th, 2010

Recently, I’ve been dipping my toes into languages and technologies I might not previously have.  For the last ten years or so ColdFusion has been my bread and butter.  Yes, I’ve tinkered with other languages like Groovy, but now …

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Ant4CF’s Documentation and Ant 1.8

August 15th, 2010

I’ve been notified twice now that there are problems running Ant4CF on Ant 1.8 or later.  I wanted to let those users of Ant4CF know that I’m aware of these problems and will eventually update the project to work …

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Google Chrome Extensions are Crazy Easy

August 15th, 2010

Occasionally I have to work on web applications that are horribly slow.  Some complex applications can take several minutes to completely reload. I’m sure I’m not alone in this experience.  And so, when working on these sites, what …

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I’ll Be At CFUnited After All!

August 15th, 2010

It looks like the stars have aligned for me, after all and I will be attending this year’s (and the last ever) CFUnited.  I managed to schedule a couple client meetings at the same time and that really helps …

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