It’s this one…
Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
I’m playing it heaps and just loving it. The highlights would be ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ and ‘Do Me A Favour.’ Over and out ;)
Album Of The Month – Aug 07
September 9th, 2007Not announcing ColdFace
August 24th, 2007Okay this is it… I’m working on a little project called ‘ColdFace’. There I said it. Now I have to make it happen or look like a doofus for talking it up.
Thanks to BiteMan and Edifier for (both) suggesting the name ColdFace. I had another in mind and I might still change it. Because I can. ColdFace is a ‘big’ word, maybe too big for my wee project. But for now we can blame those guys ;)
What is ColdFace? I’m loathed to use the word framework. It’s more like package of components and tags that can make Facebook apps ridiculously easy for ColdFusion developers.
I really hope a few people try it (when the time comes) and give me a little feedback.
Sorry, no code to show yet. A while back I did try to write some doco.
Album Of The Month – Jul 07
July 31st, 2007I’ve listened to very little over the last month… it’s a sad state of affairs. I’m picking this CD although I’ve only listed to it once. A few hours ago I didn’t know of a ‘new’ Elliot Smith album :) Maybe others don’t know.
Elliot Smith
New Moon
I have no problems plugging a posthumous release. It’s just a sad thing ain’t it. Strangely the dead are best aren’t they? Hendrix, Morrison, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, etc. Not a perfect list but you get the gist.
I never really got in to Elliot Smith, I listened from a distance. Thankfully it’s nice to be a ‘late’ fan. I didn’t have the musical attachment when he died, so I can’t get too critical of the later music. ‘New Moon’ is very folk listen-able. I believe it’s his distinct voice that turns (turned?) some people away. None the less, this guy was a brilliant artist and this CD demonstrates that sweetly.
Even if you have no interest in the artist, this album could make cool background music for some random occasion. In comparison most of the Jeff Buckley releases have been cringe worthy! But I was one of many to play the Grace Album to death.
The Elliot Smith on line scene is pretty deep. Just cast your eye over www.sweetadeline.net to see what I mean.
CF’s CreateObject() on GoDaddy
July 13th, 2007The fact that GoDaddy disable the ColdFusion CreateOject function is a real pain. I’ve previously blogged about it, as have a number of others. Scott Pinkston does a good summary of how to code around it.
It continues to annoy people who then vent about it on Sean’s lengthy CF GoDaddy blog entry. And fair enough too.
Here’s the good news… CreateObject(“component”,…) works just fine on the Linux hosting! No really it does.
Here’s the working ModelGlue Widget example (Reactor version). That would never run if CreateObject was barred.
What about the Transfer version of that example? Well that ain’t going to work properly. It uses CreateObject(“java”,…) which is still blocked. Let’s check the ORM scoreboard… Reactor 1 – Transfer 0.
Finally, CF8 is just around the corner. It has a number of features that address these issues, like; Optionally restricting access to runtime/system java classes. Per application settings (think custom tag paths and mappings).
How long it will take GoDaddy to upgrade to CF8? A fricken long time is my guess :(
Album Of The Month – Jun 07
July 13th, 2007OMG it’s almost 2am… OMG it’s mid July already!
The Bees
Octopus
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Linux, done!
June 12th, 2007The move from Windows to Linux was really smooth. I was pleasantly surprised. It took about 2 hours and although I made backups of everything, I really didn’t need to. All files and databases were preserved perfectly and Wordpress started working properly. Hence the new banner image, thanks go to iTunes and mspaint. This has been my first good GoDaddy experience, alas I’m not likely to switch the OS again.
On the move
June 8th, 2007I’m already over trying to make Wordpress run on Windows (argh GoDaddy). They’ve got me, I’m upgrading my account and moving to Linux hosting. If my backups work properly, this blog will be resurrected on the new platform in a few days. I’ll then be able to do ‘fun’ stuff like customize the blog banner. Yay.
I doubt this transition will be smooth and I’d almost bet that the ColdFusion ‘add on’ wont be swapped across to Linux, I’ll have to chase it up. But we’ll soon see.
Album Of The Month – May 07
June 3rd, 2007I haven’t done a proper introduction yet. Oh well no biggie.
Album Of The Month (AOTM) is exactly as it sounds. Each month I’ll choose an album and do a small commentary about it. A blog post once a month is not much to ask. If my blog is only displaying the AOTM entries, then I’m doing the bare minimum.
While I attempt to maintain a certain level of anonymity (not much), posting music picks is more on the personal side of the blog. It might be dismal or it might be fun, I dunno. I expect the albums mentioned will be those I am listening to the most. Which leads us to…
Wilco
Sky Blue Sky
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ColdFusion – turn the logging up to 11
May 28th, 2007A wee while ago Robin Hilliard blogged some log file tips for Flex and ColdFusion (CF). Bring Flex Data Services (FDS) in to the mix and you may actually pull your hair out.
Open neo-logging.xml for editing, here’s a few more tips…
Pop it up
An alternative to running CF in a terminal/console is to enable the ColdFusion Log Console. Change the following to ‘true’ and restart CF to see the java application magically appear.
<var name='consoleVisible'>
<boolean value='true'/>
</var>
The ColdFusion Log Console
A quick dig at Digg
May 22nd, 2007So Digg had this cool contest. Build a Flex/Flash/Apollo application using a Digg API. Nice! Who wouldn’t want to do that.
Here’s where Digg fails to impress – the contest is only for US residents. Why do ‘they’ always do that? Isn’t this the Internet, man?