Expectation management: mapping a changing array
G'day:I've been staring at this code (/variations thereof) for a week or so now (since JavaScript: running Jasmine unit tests from the CLI; more specifically my JavaScript version of the code I rewrote...
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ColdFusion Team: further erosion of trustI'm an arsehole
G'day:Update 4:I was completely wrong in what I said in this article, and I am not proud of myself as a result. I am leaving the article here as evidence of what a prick I can be. You should instead...
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re: "erosion of trust"
G'day:If you read my blog article this morning "ColdFusion Team: further erosion of trust", you should re-read as I have updated it.Rupesh maintains - and has offered evidence - that the ticket was...
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Wrong
G'day:I was wrong to call-out Rupesh about being dishonest yesterday, in the context of this ticket on the bug tracker: "Closures cannot be declared outside of cfscript". I wrote the the article...
View ArticleColdFusion: getting the audit trail exposed on the bug tracker
G'day:Just quickly. Obviously I've fallen foul of the Adobe bug tracker in the last coupla days... mostly due to my dim wits, but not helped by the fact it doesn't present information as thoroughly as...
View ArticleThe Adobe ColdFusion Team loses a good 'un
G'day:I was a bit let down to read this yesterday:Adieu Adobe! Long due post but here it goes - http://t.co/ZMVeMQtY2T#adobe#coldfusion— Hemant Khandelwal (@khandelwalh) September 12, 2015It seems like...
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JavaScript: a eurekaFFS moment
G'day:This was going to be another "how would you solve this?" code quiz things, but in the end the problem proved to be really a lot easier to solve than I expected it to be, so I'll just use it as a...
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RWC 2015
G'day:The Rugby World Cup starts today, so technology & on-topic-ness be damned.The RWC is held every four years. In its current format, 20 finalist teams compete in four pools of five teams each;...
View ArticleThe approach to implementing/designing .lucee
G'day:I'm reproducing this from a post I made on the Lucee Language Forum. I'm repeating it because... well... I wrote it so I can do with it what I like, plus it'll reach a more diverse audience here,...
View ArticleRWC: South Africa v Japan
G'day:Firstly: holy f*ck! Yesterday I said this:Pool BThere's a strong fight for second spot here, with Samoa and Scotland being strong contenders, and Japan having half a chance if they have some...
View ArticleThis blog has become a bit flat
G'day:I got this observation via email the other day:Checked on your blog today for the first in awhile.Your recent articles, read to me, as you fumbling around (lil rugby pun intended). I do still...
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New bug status for ColdFusion bugs: DELETED/NEVERHAPPENED
G'day:This is just a repro of something Aaron said on the bugbase, which reveals a rather interesting act of weirdness on the part of the Adobe ColdFusion Team. And you know how I love those.I spotted...
View ArticleColdFusion / Lucee: the first two things I do when I find a new CFML site
G'day:I just had to email yet another ColdFusion-based website about security holes in their website. Which I found via a Google search result when searching for [something else]. It'll be interesting...
View ArticleRWC: don't forget to watch Scotland v Japan
G'day:After Saturday's f***ing amazing World Cup upset in which Japan beat South Africa (the Guardian describes it "Japan beat South Africa in greatest Rugby World Cup shock ever"), I think we should...
View ArticleIs the ColdFusion community about to lose the ability to update the docs?
G'day:(Hopefully this is a nod to Ian Betteridge in my subject line there).I read this last night, on ticket 4010693:Update: Adobe has copied the wiki docs over to AEM (Adobe Experience Manager). The...
View ArticleColdFusion docs site: update and question
G'day:I've received official word from Adobe as to the fate of the ColdFusion wiki (see yesterday's article "Is the ColdFusion community about to lose the ability to update the docs?"). What do you...
View ArticleColdFusion: Adobe chip away at their own crappy generic CFScript syntax
G'day:Here's some good news from the Adobe ColdFusion Team: it seems their not opposed to reversing some of their bad language design choices: they're thinking of deprecating cfloop() in favour of...
View ArticleA real prospect of getting engagement from the ColdFusion Team regarding your...
G'day:Dan Fredericks, backed by Elishia Dvorak and later Denard Springle have asked me to spread the word and garner some interest in an idea they've had to improve engagement between the ColdFusion...
View ArticleColdFusion bugs: credit where it's due
G'day:I never thought I'd have cause to write something like this:Oddly, I can't find a single #ColdFusion bug I care about that I've raised that isn't fixed, about to be fixed (or not-fixed...
View ArticleSurvey: bug tracking software UX expectations
G'day:I haven't done a survey for a while. This one is a quicky about bug tracking software: "Bug tracking software expectations". It's only got a few questions:What bug tracking software do you...
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