Follow-up to "Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but..."
G'day:A few days back I got a bit stroppy with a plagiarist: "Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but...".I note that James has deleted the page(s) in question.Instead of simply citing...
View ArticlePublic service announcement: James Harvey / @webdevsourcerer is a systematic...
G'day:OK, so not "all's well that ends well" as I thought the other day ("Follow-up to "Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but..."").Some investigations have taken place (see comments...
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Adam Cameron plagarises James Harvey
G'day:I'm replicating this - unmodified - from its original source (http://webdevsourcerer.com/): I am most sincerely sorry.To those out there on the internet, calling me a plagarist, I say this:I am...
View ArticleSecond set of eyes on some code, pls?
G'day:I'm having some trouble working out if I'm doing something wrong, or whether there's a bug in the library I'm using here. I'm erring towards it being me being daft and missing something. Could...
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Lucee
G'day:OK, here it is. Today it was announced that Railo has been forked, and there is a new CFML engine in the community: Lucee.I am currently at the product release event, and Pixl8 Interactive's...
View ArticleLucee launch: thanks
G'day:I'd just like to say that Micha gave an excellent presentation this evening, especially for a fella who was giving his first presentation ever. And also in a language that isn't his primary one....
View Article"Open Source" doesn't mean "free"
G'day:There was some irksome feedback re the Lucee release last night. This mostly centred around feigned (if not "feigned" then just "pig ignorant") horror that Lucee Association Switzerland has the...
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I am a card-carrying member of Lucee
G'day:I've just signed-up for Lucee Membership, at "Supporter" level (this is the lowly US$9/month option... that's six quid / €8). I currently don't have anything to show for it except for a receipt,...
View ArticleLucee: Discourse vs Google group (clarification)
G'day:Just to clarify the situation with which forums people should be using for general Lucee chatter: there are currently two different forums that have been variously promoted:the Lucee Discourse...
View ArticleLucee: what to tell your boss about this whole RailoLucee thing
G'day:I'm sure the Lucee bods will come out with their own whitepaper on this shortly, but here are my thoughts / analsyes.RailoRailo has basically discontinued. I am 95% confident there will never be...
View ArticleCFML: the evolution of functionality
G'day:Right, enough Lucee stuff for the time being. CFML. I still remember CFML.As you all know, I am very unhappy about how Adobe and Railo had dealt with porting some residual tag-only functionality...
View ArticleLucee: hiccups when getting a new Express install running
G'day:These are as much "notes to self" as anything else. Railo Express used to run on Jetty which was simply "unzip and run". Lucee express is now on Tomcat, and I think if one never had Railo / Lucee...
View ArticleLucee: like a scene from Chinatown
G'day:It's Google Groups [slap]... it's Discourse [slap]... it's Google Groups...So, currently (although for how long, I don't know any more), the official Lucee community forum channel is back to...
View ArticleCFML: time for a CFML specification?
G'day:I note that PHP has finally got itself a language specification: "Announcing a specification for PHP". I can't hep but think that having a proper spec for CFML would be beneficial for the CFML...
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