http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm ColdFusion, Flex, Ajax and other items of interest en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 06:59:36 -0700 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:34:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss sipacate@gmail.com sipacate@gmail.com sipacate@gmail.com no http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/Reporting-Querys-and-COUNT-vs-COUNT1 I was working on a reporting query today and used several legacy queries as a base. When debugging and optimizing the query I found the query took 35+ seconds to crunch down to 72 records. Before worrying about indexes, I went over the query syntax a... Software Development Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:34:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/Reporting-Querys-and-COUNT-vs-COUNT1 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Getting-USB-Device-Drivers-Working-for-HTC-Android-Development I set up a new Eclipse environment today and wanted to use my HTC Thunderbolt for testing. Usually, the way this works is you right click on your project then select your manual run target of your phone. My HTC Thunderbolt was not recognized for some... Tutorials Mobile Development Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:26:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Getting-USB-Device-Drivers-Working-for-HTC-Android-Development http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/10/25/ColdSpring-20-Alpha-1-Released-Your-Help-Needed Mark Mandel posted information about the ColdSpring 2.0 Alpha release and I wanted to make sure it got out to the general public. There is a documentation contest running and your help is requested in trying out the release and helping to identify ... Software Development ColdFusion Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:31:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/10/25/ColdSpring-20-Alpha-1-Released-Your-Help-Needed http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/10/24/Quirk-in-MySQL-Join-Conditions I found a quirk in a join condition today that caused too many records to display. Look at the following query and notice the two AND clauses after the LEFT JOIN to activitytype. SELECT * FROM organization grouptable INNER JOIN ( SELECT ... Software Development Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:30:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/10/24/Quirk-in-MySQL-Join-Conditions http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/8/16/Long-Live-the-Conference Last year, one of the major tech conferences, CFUnited, closed it's doors for good. This left a hole in the learning and networking opportunities for ColdFusion developers. I gained much from going to CFUnited over the years. It helped me personally ... ColdFusion Conferences Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:21:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/8/16/Long-Live-the-Conference http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/8/2/Thinking-Like-a-Cupcake-Kingpin As you know, my company ChallengeWave is a tool for healthy challenges at work. at ChallengeWave, we've got a number of very large prospects (VLPs) in our sales pipeline. These prospects represent many millions of dollars of revenue. Each sale is com... entrepreneurism Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:16:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/8/2/Thinking-Like-a-Cupcake-Kingpin http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/25/On-What-Is-Important An article showed up in my inbox today titled Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain't the code. The background of this article is a pep talk delivered by Jason Cohen, of Smart Bear Software to the audience at Startup Weekend in Austin. I happen to agree... entrepreneurism Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:18:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/25/On-What-Is-Important http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/6/To-Free-or-Not-to-Free It's pretty common for web based services to offer a free sign-up account as a trial period or self-directed demonstration. An advantage of offering free sign-ups is to give a potential customer a good look at the system in order to make a buying dec... [More] entrepreneurism Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:08:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/6/To-Free-or-Not-to-Free http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/5/Gmail-Gmail-how-thou-hast-forsaken-me Oh Gmail, Gmail How thou hath forsaken me Thou makest me to switch accounts where there used to be no problems Thou loggest me out at inopportune moments when I've emails to write Thou ignorest my pleas to open different accounts in multiple ta... Personal Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:58:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/5/Gmail-Gmail-how-thou-hast-forsaken-me http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/1/The-worst-entreprenurial-sin In my opinion, the worst entrepreneurial sin is building a product without a revenue stream. Sure there are strategies to build a web application, go viral and sell to GoogFaceYahooSoft.... but most of my readers live outside of the reality distortio... [More] entrepreneurism Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:59:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/7/1/The-worst-entreprenurial-sin http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/30/Perfection-is-the-Enemy-of-the-Good Remember when you used to work at BigCompanyCo as an employee? Remember all the dumb stuff they did there and how you would do it differently when you get in charge? Honestly, that feeling was one of the major drivers for me to start my own company. ... [More] entrepreneurism Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:04:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/30/Perfection-is-the-Enemy-of-the-Good http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/28/So-youve-got-a-good-idea-do-you There is an old saying, "Ideas are cheap, 'tis execution that pays the bills". It's possible to have a good idea and use poor execution. It is possible to have a poor idea and use good execution. Allow me to pontificate: Good idea, bad execution ... [More] entrepreneurism Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:11:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/28/So-youve-got-a-good-idea-do-you http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/28/Im-going-to-write-about-Entrepreneurialism-at-nodanscom I use this blog to write about things that interest me. I've been growing ChallengeWave.com for the last few years and lately I'm interested in doing the right things to see our company grow. ChallengeWave is a service to help employees start and ... entrepreneurism Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:27:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/6/28/Im-going-to-write-about-Entrepreneurialism-at-nodanscom http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/4/13/Job-Opportunity-Near-Boston-for-MidLevel-CF-Developer I'm posting this job opportunity for a friend. This opportunity is for a mid-level ColdFusion developer who is entrepreneurially minded and wants to be a key member of a growing and exciting team. Slackers need not apply! If you are interested, Conta... ColdFusion Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:22:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2011/4/13/Job-Opportunity-Near-Boston-for-MidLevel-CF-Developer http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2010/12/23/Filter-Directory-Contents-By-Multiple-File-Extensions Query of Queries really helped me out this morning. The Model-Glue team is working on a ColdFusion Builder extension and we need to get a list of files to inspect. There could be many types of files in a project that aren't relevant to our purposes a... ColdFusion Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:56:00 -0700 http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2010/12/23/Filter-Directory-Contents-By-Multiple-File-Extensions