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OT: Not a Nerd!

Posted On September 9, 2007 10:08 AM By Phil in Misc.

Since I have nothing better to do before going to watch the Phillies get further out of the wild-card spot, I followed the lead of a number of other folks on MXNA this morning and took my test.

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Yes, I am Back

Posted On April 13, 2007 11:19 AM By Phil in Misc.

Well, it's been almost a month since I last posted (not including today's other post), but there's been good reasons for it. The past 2 months have been crazy both personally and professionally. I am proud to say that I reached one of my goals for this year: not to rent anymore. So, for the past two months, I have been dealing with all things buying a house and as of the last part of March, I am a homeowner. I am still unpacking, but since it's supposed to be raining for a few days this weekend, I think I should be able to finish unpacking most of the remaining boxes we have. As for work, the finish line is really close for the SAML project I have been working on. The SAML piece is actually done and works fine, but there's some other pieces of functionality that are still being tested before it becomes completed. Since the SAML piece is almost done, I feel confident completing the SAML series I started earlier this year. I will say this much, I couldn't use ColdFusion for everything, I had to use Apache's XML Security Library. After this project is completed, I am most likely going to be working on a Flex project so my other efforts have gone into reading through as many resources as I can on Flex. I have gone through both Total Training's and Lynda.com's training videos so maybe I'll do a comparison post soon on that.

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Latest Family Member

Posted On January 26, 2006 8:12 PM By Phil in Misc.

I would like to introduce the newest member of the family, Savannah! She's a white-lab mix that Laurisa and I picked her up from the Animal Orphanage tonight. We first saw her on Saturday as Laurisa tried to coax this shy dog out of the outside run. It turns out she was brought there by her owner who actually lives right across the street from me on Friday. Apparently he travels a lot with his job and not being around caused stress on her and he thought it was in the best interest of the dog to bring it in to find a new home. She hadn't eaten in days and was very thin. She has filled in since Saturday and is a little less timid. Cajun and her met tonight and got along fine. Cajun wanted to run all around and she just kind of looked at him like he was crazy. They did run together after a while and she was following him around. They got along and that was the last hurdle to bringing her home so home she came!

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Happy Halloween!

Posted On November 1, 2005 6:09 AM By Phil in Misc.

Laurisa, my girlfriend, and I dressed up my dog, Cajun, as Darth Vader last night. He didn't mind having the costume on, except for the helmet. The picture album is here. Enjoy!

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Welcome and PACFUG Meeting!

Posted On October 19, 2005 3:46 PM By Phil in Frameworks,CFUG,Misc.

This is officially my first blog posting! Now, I am at least up to 2004 communication wise! I wanted to try and get my site up by the Flyers' first home game, but since that didn't work out, I "revised" the goal to be the first Philadelphia Area ColdFusion User Group meeting which was held yesterday. I was pleased with the number of people there. The last few meetings have had relatively few people in attendance, so seeing all the chairs filled at Brookwood Media Arts last night was great. First, I didn't get to see Steve's presentation as I was stuck on the turnpike due to some traffic issues. In trying to get around it, I took a tour of the Welsh Rd. traffic nightmare. I Should have stayed on the turnpike. Anyway, I got in at the end of his presentation on Dreamweaver 8 and other IDEs while he was showing CFEclipse. I've tried using CFEclipse. Maybe I have used Homesite/CF Studio and Dreamweaver so much that I just don't get it and its layout or its Java-type usage of packages/projects/whatever they are called. Can't wait for Steve's presentation on Dreamweaver to be uploaded to see what tidbits he's found for us coders.

The second presentation given by Matt Cass also from Steve's company, CounterMarch Systems, was on CFAJAX. CFAJAX is a way to communicate through JavaScript and a core file to a server technology, thus refreshing data without refreshing the web page. This is pretty cool, except for the using JavaScript part. I think it has potential but, as Matt pointed out, there is little documentation as well as security concerns with the use of components. Steve also talked in his blog about double controllers for those of us who utilize Mach-ii or Fusebox or ModelGlue as CFAJAX has its own. The rest of the meeting was spent on talking about architectures/methodologies/frameworks and how it appears that the community has gotten behind the idea of using some sort of framework. There also appears to be a flux of programming jobs becoming available for CF developers, including two positions listed for the place where I work, VirtualEdge.

That's all for now and hopefully I can keep up blogging. Next up, I've downloaded the Flex2 Alpha and can't wait to start looking and playing with it to see where that product is going.

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