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Coldfusion 9 and IIS

March 1, 2011 By 5 Comments
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I have been developing in ColdFusion for a while locally using the built in web server. Recently at work several of the projects I am involved with moved to an IIS production server. In order to test fully in my local environment I needed to install IIS and setup ColdFusion to use it as the server instead of its built in version. I ran into a few problems trying to figure this out so I decided to write a blog post of the process in case it is of help to others who need to do the same thing. … [Read more...]

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Get the Latest on ColdFusion at CFHour

January 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
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One of the challenges of having a long commute to work is finding new and interesting ways to make the morning and evening drives more interesting. Over the last year I have found the perfect answer by subscribing to podcasts that I am interested in, which have also served to advance my own personal development and education. Much of my professional work involves programming large databases backed web systems using the Adobe ColdFusion. Last summer I discovered CFHour, which is a weekly … [Read more...]

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Interview with Rockstar Web Applications Programmer Leah Culver

May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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There are many countless programmer's and web developers around the world today, with a high concentration in West Coast America mostly in Silicon Valley. A technical startup Pownce was launched a few years ago under the premise of sharing ideas and content with friends. Leah Culver is one of the co-founder's of the site and worked heavily on the development and launch. I was lucky enough to grab a short interview with Leah about what here next projects are. After selling pownce to blogging … [Read more...]

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Digg Cuts Support for Short URL’s on Submitted Stories

May 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
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When Kevin Rose resumed CEO at Digg, his first act was to remove the Diggbar from submitted stories. This was, as most of us know, just a bad idea in general and was looking at Digg too much as a business and not like the social network and community it is. Well announced today by Keval Desai on Digg's Blog, they will be killing the short URL service for any stories not already submitted to Digg. You will be able to still share the short URL's from stories through Digg's share feature, … [Read more...]

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Remote Freelance Development Work Made Simple with oDesk

May 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
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oDesk is a simple application launched back in 2003 to devise a way for freelancers and remote developers to work on projects with ease. Allowing you to charge on a per-hour basis, oDesk logs how many hours you put in and what work you do. The idea for a freelance board has been around for many years. However, oDesk is really the first company to take charge of the wheel and innovate a product that works well for both freelancers and managers. After creating an account, you can devise an … [Read more...]

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DotNetKicks Launches a Fresh Design for .NET Programmers

April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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With the rise of social news sites, finding new content aggregation methods are pretty simple. And with how quickly the web is growing today, it's simple to find micro-niche sites for just about anything. DotNetKicks is one of my personal favorite sites - similar do DZone, but only for .NET and ASP programming links. I've been visiting the site for a while and have been a part of the community for a few months. However a mass e-mail has been sent out to all the site's users announcing a new … [Read more...]

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Pligg Social News CMS Releases Official 1.0.4 Upgrade

April 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
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The popular Digg-clone script Pligg has released their latest version as of today, stable release 1.0.4. There are a lot of new features from 1.0.3a and 1.0.3b releases of the CMS script, which have fixed a lot of security issues and bugs in the code. The Pligg developers have also released a set of new modules, while also removing some of the older modules from the default download. New module hooks, which are used to place modules throughout Pligg's templating system, have also been added … [Read more...]

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