A recent project called upon us to parse RSS and present the feed in a simple list format.  Using the straight-forward XMLParse method in ColdFusion MX 7, this task was a cinch.  To speed up performance, the script caches the RSS feed once every fifteen minutes. So that you don’t have to go through the [...]

The goal: post snippets of code in my blog. The problems: First, plain-text code is hard to read – it would be nice to post code and have it appear color-coded in a manner similar to the way it looks in my IDE. Second, every time I put a simple quotation mark in my blog, [...]

InfoWorld has published its Best of Open Source Software Awards for 2008. Prominently featured are a few of my favorites: Best Wiki: MediaWiki – Wiki collaboration software of Wikipedia fame Best Blog Publishing: WordPress – Highly extensible blogging platform, and in no small conincidence, the software used to drive our own blog Best JavaScript Framework: [...]

This evening I did a little PHP and JavaScript work to embed the Google Talk Badge into my blog’s home page and make the visibility of the badge configurable from within Firefox. The Google Talk Badge is an embeddable chunk of HTML that allows anonymous website visitors to chat with you through your website, while [...]

I just want to go on the record as having said, “Yes, we totally ripped-off WordPress’ corporate website design.”  This is low rent, I know.  I never claimed to be a good designer – I just work with a couple of really good ones; however, they’re on vacation, so for now, I’m on my own. [...]