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Just a couple of opinionated nerds talking about ColdFusion, PHP, and technology in general.

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Established Programmers Getting Started in Web Development

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Programming

An acquaintance of mine has recently graduated from college with a degree in computer science.  Where he went, apparently they stressed theory over practice.  He’s got some C++, Lisp, Java, and MySQL experience, but has never touched web development (neither HTML, nor even viewed source on a web page).
He’s hoping to get a job with [...]

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Real Time Command Execution Feedback

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · ColdFusion, Programming

Did you ever write a utility ColdFusion script which uses <cfexecute> to run a command and send output back to the browser? It makes for convenient and monitorable remote execution of certain repetitive tasks. My most common use for this sort of thing is for example an rsync process which can be invoked [...]

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