These posts were imported from my old Wordpress Blog (which I stopped updating in 2011) and are here mainly for posterity. Although I have tried to clean things up there will be broken links and potentially other issues.
Really, 4.5 cents per 99 cent sale on iTunes, you really know how to treat your artists well. If you’re not crippling their meatspace releases with DRM then you’re applying the same (none existant) overhead charges to their digital downloads, from the suit filed by Sony artists:
A couple of weekends ago I took my first real look at Flex 2.0 Beta. To say that I loved it is an understatement, I’ve even added a Flex category to my site in anticipation of many future posts about it.
Just now I wanted to compare a couple of arrays in Coldfusion to ensure they were both exactly the same. I knew that CFCUnit had this functionality and I had even pottered through the code a while back to see how it was done and had noticed that it was doing actual.equals(expected) or something like that, where both actual and expected are the arrays to compare.
The other day I finally came up with the problem and solution to a sporadic bug that had been appearing in our main application at work for a couple of weeks and driving me absolutely nuts. This was one of those bugs that if anyone asked you what was causing it you could swear on your life without flinching that it was un-reproducible, so what was it and how did I fix it?
I got into using del.icio.us pretty late on and I’ve only really used it to store my bookmarks so I can access them from anywhere.
Updated the PHPUnit2 HTML Runner to apply a fix provided by Glen Ogilvie for the Formatter when it tries to find the original exception that was thrown.
Last weekend I spent about 25 hours developing a prototype for a meeting we had with a potential client on the Monday. We started with a blank page at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning and by 10:00 p.m. Sunday we had a pretty much fully functioning prototype which had a great design (in my opinion) and all the functionality that we intended to demonstrate.
I’ve recently started to get into using Test Driven Development in almost everything that I am able to because I’ve begun to really see and experience the benefits that it brings to development. The basic advantages of TDD are covered very well in an article by Robert Blackburn, Test Driven Development with ColdFusion Part I: An Introduction to Unit Testing so I won’t cover them here.
