Scott Stroz dropped me an IM yesterday asking "What the hell is autowiring?" It's a pretty good question, and one that I haven't done a good job explaining.
So, here we go: the evolution of autowiring.
12 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:53 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX | Model-Glue
Wow - this is pretty slick. By using his AjaxCFC, an event gateway, and a tiny Flash movie as a conduit, Rob Gonda has come up with a way to do *push* in Model-Glue via Ajax. That...is...pretty...slick!
Read his full post at http://www.robgonda.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/20/Behold-ModelGlue-users-MGAJAX-Made-easy.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:31 AM - Categories: Model-Glue
The Tiobe index isn't the most accurate way to judge a programming language's place in the market, but it's an interesting way to eyeball community interest. ColdFusion went from #26 to #13 in the past year! (Java = #1, C = #2, C# = #7, VB.NET = #20, Ruby = passing fad (sorry, I had to, it's probably not, but I thought it'd make someone chuckle))
Read more at tiobe.com.
(Oops, forgot the link the first time, thanks, Ryan!)
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:26 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Doug Hughes is offering a valued-at $300 bounty for the winner of the Reactor Design Contest, where you design both the Reactor framework logo and a "skin" for the Reactor Blog (blog software) application that comes with the framework. Head on over to his blog to learn more!
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:06 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Sean's written up an entry talking about his experiences using Model-Glue with Reactor and ColdSpring. I've been using these same three recently, and it's been a good experience.
Each framework is dedicated to its task and doesn't try to go outside of its domain - when combined, things seem to just work.
Read more about Sean's experience over at his blog.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:05 AM - Categories: Model-Glue
In preparation for the impending invasion of Clayton, NC by Doug Hughes, I've established a forward recon point across the street from his intended base of operations.
Last weekend, my wife and I deployed all of the necessary materials for long-term occupation of the Clayton Forward Recon Point to said point (read: we moved everything we own except some clothes, a few laptops, and our dog to our new house). Upon deployment of said materials, we returned to the Northern Virginia area for a series of operations over the next nine days. Long term occupation of the Clayton Forward Recon Point will being 8 March 2006.
Updated intelligence photos may be found in the new photo dossier.
5 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 2:32 PM - Categories: Off Topic
Microsoft has unveiled "Windows Live Local" (Virtual Earth Technology Human Eye XP Not-Quite-Professional-But-Better-Than-Home 2006 Edition), which appears to be their stab at the Yahoo! / Google maps RIA.
It's absolutely horrible. If you don't believe me, feel free to try it at http://preview.local.live.com/.
The screen is horizontally split into two regions. The bottom displays a little car and a map. You can drag the map - sometimes. Just don't get the cursor too close to the car before you click. If you click the car you'll be able to drag it around on the map - sometimes. Sometimes it rotates the car instead. I'm not sure why.
The top half is where it gets wacky. Someone took a lot of time grabbing still frames from a video of driving around the city, because it tries to show you what you'd see out of the car's window. Ok, that's neat, but:
1. The graphics are cheesy, and look like they're from the 1993 edition of Need for Speed 2.0.
2. Why would I use this if I needed to find a place? The map is so small it's unusable, and the UI is clunky.
3. It's such dizzying experience that I get a headache after using it long enough to blog it.
I think someone at MSFT needs to get beaten with the KISS principle.
8 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 6:59 AM - Categories: Causing Trouble