So it was brought to my attention during my CFUNITED presentation on Tuesday morning that a few slides of high interest were not viewable on-screen or in the conference book. Specifically, there’s a great Viso diagram of the template request workflow as it applies to ColdFusion and the settings for Trusted Cached and Saving [...]

It seems that a lot of people, including myself, are clamoring for Flash on the iPhone. I’m highly disappointed in Apple for claiming to have the “real internet” on the iPhone, but then they leave out the one standard that is on a good number of websites, and is pre-installed on a majority of new [...]

I’ve searched for months for an all-inclusive, low-cost backup solution. Here were my basic requirements: Off-site datacenter with it’s own backup system, so my backups are backed-up. Software that works, and can be easily scheduled. Incremental backups. Versioning. Multiple jobs. Support multiple machines… Servers, desktops and laptops. I looked into most of the online backup services, and while the pricing seemed nice, [...]

On frauds, chickens and Visio There’s a quasi-psychological disorder called “Impostor Syndrome” wherein the sufferer feels that, despite appearing to others as having mastered a particular skill and achieving numerous quantitative successes, he or she is not really “worthy” of the titles or benefits (or infamy) that goes along with those skills or successes. Sufferers are unable to internalize their accomplishments. It’s [...]

The Case for Functional Business Specification Documents FLiP is getting a little long in the tooth. When Jeff Peters and I codified Hal Helms’s development methodology theories in our Fusebox book and coined the name “Fusebox Lifecycle Process”, we were living very much in a “web 1.0″ world. Fusebox was developed as a page-centric controller framework and we all [...]

I had a website with an issue. This site is successful on several levels… It gets a good number of visits (500,000/month), each visitor hits nearly 10 pages per visit (so around 5,000,000 page views/month), and ranks well with search engines. While this might sound like a slightly above-average site, the problem lies with it’s [...]