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Return of the Das Keyboard

By barneyb on October 27, 2010

About a year and half ago I got a Das Keyboard Ultimate for work, but immediately had some major issues using it.  Fortunately, the 10-year-old keyboard it was replacing wasn't completely unusable, so I just switched back.  That keyboard finally gave up the ghost a couple weeks ago, unfortunately, so I was stuck with the [...]

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A Word About Development Environments

By barneyb on September 27, 2010

I saw this today, and thought it hilarious:
Java, being a mainstream programming language, has attracted major software companies to pour money and human effort into it. As a consequence, a lot of good integrated development environments (IDEs) are out there. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being a real programmer by using the good [...]

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Medians and Quartiles

By barneyb on September 19, 2010

A number of years ago I build this little app called EventLog.  It's a really simple data journal: you enter a set of a tags and a timestamp (defaulting to "now"), and it saves it off to a database.  Then you can build all kinds of reports and such based on your data to help [...]

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Inline JS Progress Bars

Inline JS Progress Bars

By barneyb on September 15, 2010

2011-05-17: A richer version is available at http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2011/05/17/even-better-inline-progress-bars/.
If you've ever built a web app that does background and/or batch processing of stuff, you've invariably created a bit of markup like this:
#numberFormat(sentEmailCount, ',')# of #numberFormat(emailCount, ',')# sent…
which then renders like this:

Wouldn't it be nice to create this markup (simply with a wrapping span) instead:

#numberFormat(sentEmailCount, ',')# of [...]

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Minor AmazonS3.cfc Bug Fix

By barneyb on September 2, 2010

Today I identified a subtle bug with the listObjects method of AmazonS3.cfc dealing with delimiters.  If you supply a prefix that ends with a trailing delimiter, certain paths would be returned partially truncated.  Removing the trailing delimiter solves the issue, so there's an easy workaround, but I've added a snippet to take care of that [...]

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Scheduled Downtime This Evening

By barneyb on August 25, 2010

Just a heads up that the server hosting barneyb.com and all it's various offspring (PotD, EventLog, etc.) will be going down about eight this evening to replace a faulty cooling fan.  Total outage should be less than 15 minutes, and it will be a complete outage (the IPs will be dead).

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Cron for CFML. Again

By barneyb on August 16, 2010

So tonight I built cron in CFML. Again. Because it's missing from both the language framework and every runtime. Am I the only one who constantly fights this battle? In the past four years I've built four distinct cron implementations in CFML and it's completely retarded.
The JRE provides TimerTask, but it's a [...]

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On-The-Fly YUI Compressor

By barneyb on August 3, 2010

A couple years ago I wrote about using YUI Compressor to do built-time aggregation and compression of static assets.  That works well and good if you have a build environment, but that's not always the case.  So, still using YUI Compressor, I set up a simple script that'll do runtime aggregation and compression of assets [...]

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Flash Scope CFC

By barneyb on July 30, 2010

If you've ever used Grails, you probably know about the 'flash' scope that it provides for passing data from one request to the next.  Certainly not a must-have feature, but it's quite handy.  The typical use case is after a form submit, you set stuff into the flash scope and then redirect to some page [...]

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Closures, Closures, Closures

By barneyb on July 23, 2010

Guess what time it is, kids!!
It's "Barney still wants CFML closures" time!  Yay!
Today's impetus is Edmund, Sean Corfield's event driven programming framework.  In order to register event listeners, you have to a CFC instance with a specific method to be invoked on it, and which accepts an Edmund Event as it's sole argument.  Which means [...]

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