JAlpino blog

Bye bye Waterfall, Hello Agile

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:12:00 -0700

Come Monday I'll be starting the envisioning phase of a 4 month project aimed to enhance the overall user experience in one of our flagship applications. I'm definitely excited about the project not only because there will be some really cool compone...

Surprise Presentation from a CF_Celebrity

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:02:00 -0700

Last week my work brought in a CF consultant from Universal Mind to help evaluate the performance of our flagship application and offer suggestions for improvement. On Tuesday this consultant was set up to give us a presentation on CFMX performance, ...

Working with Milliseconds in Coldfusion

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:23:00 -0700

Now that the development and SIT phases of my current project are coming to an end, I've been focusing on preparation for Performance and Load testing. The application that I've been working on was written in Java and runs completely behind the scene...

Dot Bomb 2.0 ?

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:26:00 -0700

Just about a month ago, I saw this Wired article and had thoughts of jumping off the roof instead of taking the stairs down to my car (figuratively speaking of course). I couldn't believe what I was reading, Microsoft had just paid $240 million dol...

Go Dad!!

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:20:00 -0700

I've had a copy of this video on my machine for a while and thought that I would post a link to it. It's one of the coolest videos around not only because you hear the kids rooting for their dad but also because he's racing a minivan and smokes a Cam...

Productivity with ColdFusion

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:11:00 -0700

With recent articles proclaiming Coldfusion to be dead or dying, there have been several 'rebuttal' posts by members of the CF community defending it from misinformation that every author seemed to have (go figure). Many of those posts did a really... [More]

Updated Photo Gallery

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:06:00 -0700

Last night I decided to update the Photo Gallery to look a little nicer and provide an image from my latest galleries. The change wasn't a major overhaul or anything but definitely an improvement from what it was before. I hope in the future to figur...

Switching from PVCS and ANT to Subversion and Maven2

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:40:00 -0700

A few months ago there was a collaborative effort from the developers at my work to get rid of our then current version control software, PCVS and excruciating Build Test Deploy strategy using Ant and AntHillPro. Although it took many months of convi...

CF Haters, Please Read

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:56:00 -0700

This post is in response to the recent bashing and false claims made about Coldfusion, Flash and Adobe. To get an idea (if you aren't already familiar) with what I'm talking about read the comments left on digg, ColdFusion 8 Launches. I know that the...

How to estimate a project

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:40:00 -0700

The other day a buddy of mine who is still fresh in his career, emailed me about a possible side job that he had for building a small forum type application. In his email he asked me how much I would charge for the application, sending along a URL ...

Start-Up Reading Material

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:30:00 -0700

The past couple of days I been doing a lot reading on start-ups and VCs and happened to stumbled across a few good sites like Venture Hacks and Ask The VC. It started when I was reading the owner bios of Pownce, some new web 2.0 communication app mad...

mp3Salad cracks 100k

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:11:00 -0700

It's official, mp3Salad has cracked 100,000 page views this month. With 2 days left in the month, I anticipate the total being around 120k.

Traffic Stats: June 1 - June 28

Update The final total for the month of June was 125k!

Improving Amazon Product Advertisements

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:16:00 -0700

Since I last blogged about mp3Salad getting traffic the number of page views it's received have steadily increased, each time amazing me when I check on my traffic stats. The site has received over 50k+ page views a month since February, with April t...

The $100 scratch-off experiment

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:45:00 -0700

Biting off an experiment I found on Neville's Lottery Experiment, I figured I would try my luck and see what (if anything) I could earn in purchasing $100 in scratch off tickets. For the record, I hardly if ever gamble (casino's included) so I figure...

Unneccessary Whitespace

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700

A little bit of a gripe here, but why do we have to explicitly tell ColdFusion not to output tons of useless whitespace, line breaks and tab characters? Would there ever be a valid case in which that 'data' would be usefull? My questions come fr...