Tony Robbins – Yeah, He Rocks!

Laugh if you want to … I’ve always been a big follower of Tony Robbins for about 20+ years. The guy really has helped improve my life. He makes you think about the way your mind works, and why you behave the way you do.

If you’re feeling a little down, not motivated, or just plain BLAH!, I’d encourage you to spend 20 minutes watching a Tony Robbins video on YouTube.  Watch two if you have time.

Here’s one I just watched.

Wow, I never knew he cussed like that! 

Never Do This When Coding…

Note to self: When a client needs a field named “songTitle”, never *assume* it will only contain a song title. And never limit the length of the varchar data type of this field to 100, since you think it will contain only a song title.

Why I’d Like To Make The Sexy With Transfer

Ok, so the other night, I opened the sample Transfer/Coldbox application for the first time. It was pretty simple looking, and I had it up and running in minutes.

Building the Code Scanner Using ColdBox/Transfer

Let’s get started on a new project. I’d like to turn the code scanner tool into a full-blown Coldbox application with Transfer doin’ the dirty work for us. Since we already have an existing application, we have our requirements already defined. I’ll go over them again here so we’ll be clear about what we need. This is a simplified version because I’m tired, and I, well, don’t feel like typing much more tonight.

The code scanner will allow users to:

1. Login to a restriced admin area. The existing application does not have security built-in, but I’d like to implement it in the new one so I can learn more about those interceptors.

2. Manage their regular expression library. The properties of a regular expression item will be defined as we go. This is not the point of my project.

3. Run scans on directories or specific files.

4. View reports of a particular scan

5. See a break down of each item in the report. This includes line number, flagged code, suggestions, etc.

We’ll use Coldbox to develop our app. We’ll try to adhere to OO principles, and ask questions along the way to help make sure we stay on track.

Transfer will handle our database interactions.  Look for more posts coming this week as we lay out our database schema and figure out how all this will come together. Yes I’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s how we learn, right?

While You’re Asleep, I’m Coding!

What are you doing at 6AM on a Saturday morning? Sleeping? Well, I’ve been coding! Why? Because I can’t sleep past 5:30-6AM, no matter what time I go to bed. If I hit the club, and come in at 2AM, yep, I’m back up at 6AM. I think it’s partly to do with me having ColdFusion on the brain. I usually have some ideas I want to flesh out, in code, or on the screen.

New Mach-II Wiki Outlining The Config File

What is Mach-II? Mach-II is a damn-fine, well-established framework that has been around for quite a while. And since I’ve transformed into a caped-crusader for frameworks everywhere, I’d like to point you folks to Brian Fitzgerald’s new Wiki. Brian works with me, and I can tell you, the guy is a die-hard Mach-II ninja.

From the Wiki:

The purpose of this document is to outline each of the available commands in the mach-ii.xml file, and to offer both a quick overview for new Mach-II developers, as well as a reference for existing developers.

It looks like Brian has spent a lot of time putting this document together for other Mach-II developers.

He also setup an init() vs. config() Wiki as well. You can check that out here.

Thanks Brian!

Transfer and Coldbox? Holy Moly!

This is just a short post to let folks know I got Coldbox and Transfer smokin’ like a ‘67 Big Block Chevelle SS!  All I can say is, WOW!

It’s 12:30AM here, and I’ve been toiling away on my laptop in bed because I’ve become obsessed with how frickin’ cool this $hit is! I’ve gotta hit the bed. I’ll post some examples tomorrow hopefullly.

Here’s a teaser….

<package name=”cars”>
<object name=”cars” table=”cars” >
<id name=”carid” type=”numeric” generate=”false”/>
<property name=”carmake” type=”string” nullable=”false” />
<property name=”carmodel” type=”string” nullable=”false” />
</object>
</package>

POOF!

Luis Explains Coldbox

I was just alerted to this presentation on Coldbox, by Luis himself!

Great stuff!

Yet Another Hard Vista Shutdown

I know most everyone already knows Vista is a complete, utterly useless piece of software, but I’ve gotta vent this stuff, or else I’ll go nuts. Ok, maybe I’m already nuts – that’s not the point. This entry stems from yet another frozen screen last night.

Talk’n ColdFusion With the Family Lately?

Ever since I started using ColdFusion, I’ve wanted to talk about ColdFusion.  Haven’t you? I mean, there’s always been this yearning to talk about ColdFusion with other folks.