About a year ago, I came across the Red-Gate suite of products for MSSQL. Between then and now, I’ve used SQL Compare and Data Compare about once a week, sometimes more often. These tools are one of those things that, once you have them, you ask yourself, “How did I survive without it?” For example, let’s [...]

I just gave a presentation to the Maryland ColdFusion user group about an experimental framework i’ve been goofing around with. In a nutshell it looks and feels just like MVC-Fusebox, but has no XML and has no core files. It simply uses CFML and CFCs. It doesn’t require any special include files or any extended [...]

Not too long after beginning my programming career, I worked for a dot-com company that bought Matrox G400 dual-head video cards for all employees, along with two 19″ monitors. Those of us who use multi-mon setups know that once you move from one monitor to two, it’s very difficult to be happy with just one. Well [...]

After my computer melt-down a couple weeks back, I upgraded to Eclipse 3.2 with Web Tools Project. However, I did *not* like the built-in XML editor. I prefer to write XML by hand, with DTD/schema “tag insight” like XML Buddy. But woe is me, XML Buddy doesn’t run on 3.2. (Someone, please correct me if [...]

Our march towards world domination continues. Expect our next conference giveaway t-shirts to read “All your base are belong to us”. Seriously, though, we’re ecstatic to welcome Tyson Vanek to the team here at Webapper. He’s actually been a member of our extended “family” for many years, in that he was part of the [...]

Upon returning from MAX 2006 in Las Vegas, my workstation was a little frozen. “No problem, a quick reboot,” I thought. Alas, “NO SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR” greeted me. “Well at least I have RAID,” I thought. Fat lot of good that did me. After days and days of rebuilding my system (and only losing a [...]