CF411: 1,300+ Tools and Resources for CFers, by Charlie Arehart

July 29, 2010 by bchesley

CF411: 1,300+ Tools and Resources for CFers,

by Charlie Arehart (in over 130 categories)

via CF411: 1,300+ Tools and Resources for CFers, by Charlie Arehart.

The Mother of all CF lists – Charlie is taking us through it right now at CFUnited 2010.

GotCFM?com – Promoting and Supporting ColdFusion and CFML

July 29, 2010 by bchesley

The List of CF-Powered Sites

via GotCFM?com – Promoting and Supporting ColdFusion and CFML.

Making the case for CF day after day.  Awesome.

July 29, 2010 by bchesley

Presentation Zen

July 29, 2010 by bchesley

The Joy of vicissitude

Change is a part of life. Change — even sudden and painful change — is indeed about the only thing that is certain in life, yet often we deny it or run from it. Instead, learn to prepare for change, face change, and even embrace it.

via Presentation Zen.

Nice guidance on presentation excellence.

Background Image for Input Button with CSS (works in both Firefox and IE) « This part of my life is called: Being Myself

July 21, 2010 by bchesley

Background Image for Input Button with CSS (works in both Firefox and IE)

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Balaji Ramesh

I was having trouble with setting a background image for an input button in IE 6. The background-image property that worked in Firefox 2.0 just did not have any effect on IE6. After a bit of googling, I realized that the background-image property will not work on IE and that we need to use the background property. Here’s a snippet that works on both browsers:

.button{
background: white url(‘images/imagebutton.gif’) no-repeat top;
width: 150px;
height: 40px;
color:white;
}

via Background Image for Input Button with CSS (works in both Firefox and IE) « This part of my life is called: Being Myself.

Time to Rethink the Programmer Hiring Process • FusionGrokker

July 16, 2010 by bchesley

Not everyone wants great programmers.

I prefaced all of that by saying that we were assuming that everyone wants great (passionate) programmers. But we know this not to be the truth. Not all organizations believe they can afford great programmers (in which case, see paragraph 3), and still others just don’t believe that programmers are close enough to their bottom line to worry about it. And if there are dispassionate programmers, then it stands to reason that there are dispassionate managers, too.

I imagine that dispassionate managers are threatened by passionate people, because passionate people change things. And passionate programmers can be particularly unruly. In these cases, there may just be a culture of dispassion. That’s an unfortunate situation to be stuck in if you’re passionate, and if I ever find myself stuck there I’ll start looking for another job.

via Time to Rethink the Programmer Hiring Process • FusionGrokker.

So true…

Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse — Henke.ws – ColdFusion Wheels Git

July 12, 2010 by bchesley

RazorSQL – SQL Query Tool and SQL Editor for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux

July 7, 2010 by bchesley

RazorSQL – SQL Query Tool and SQL Editor for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.  Nice cross platform DB manager.  Connects to over 29 databases and supports access to MS-SQL from Macintosh.  WOOt!

Adding print support to ColdFusion Builder Extensions

July 3, 2010 by bchesley

Raymond Camdens ColdFusion Blog: Tour de ColdFusion Beta

June 28, 2010 by bchesley

Raymond Camdens ColdFusion Blog: Tour de ColdFusion Beta.

Ahh the Dagoba system is getting closer.