By barneyb on October 12, 2006
A while back, I posted an entry about using Subversion and just got a comment on it a day or two ago with a question about tags. Tags are absolutely essential in CVS, but in Subversion, they're a bit less required. Still very useful, however.
In a nutshell, a tag is a named handle on a [...]
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By barneyb on October 11, 2006
For the first time in my life, I'm now only mostly human. Yesterday I had hernia surgery and got a plastic mesh implant to help strengthen the hole in my abdominal wall where the plumbing for my testicles passes through. In a nutshell, the hole is supposed to be tight (only enough to let the [...]
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By barneyb on October 9, 2006
Sean, programmer extrordinaire, released a closures library for CF and it's generated a lot of interest. Unfortunately, a lot of the interest has been of the "what are closures and what are they good for" type. So I thought I'd contribute my thoughts.
Closures, at a most basic level, are functions defined inside a scope of [...]
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By barneyb on October 6, 2006
Charlie Arehart is stalking bloggers, and wants the bloggers to help. Just kidding, of course, but he makes a good point about the anonymity of a lot of blogs. I can't say I'm all over the personal sharing, but I've at least got my name and a contact form available. People can build enormous personal [...]
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By barneyb on October 3, 2006
Part of the application I spend most of my time working on is consumption and aggregation of XML feeds, and when the month of October turned, and interesting thing happened: processing a significant number of feeds suddenly started erroring. We don't do it manually, instead using the very capable rssatom.cfc from Roger Benningfield, so the [...]
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