I'm a father, husband, and computer science junky. I pursue my passion at Mentor Graphics, one of the top Electronic Design Automation companies in the world.

Joined August 2009
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Wow. Hal Helms is migrating from ColdFusion to RoR. http://bit.ly/AMhcA

Is ColdFusion worth learning? Here are my thoughts on CFML. http://tinyurl.com/y8d6s2m

I love the guys at 37Signals. They are now a $100 billion dollar company :). This is funny http://bit.ly/TghNO

Since Railo can't serialze a CFC using BlazeDS and I'm to cheap to buy Adobe ColdFusion, I'm now off to Java and Hibernate land!
Anybody know of companies in Denver doing really neat things with web based data entry centric UI?
Does UI "clutter" automatically mean that an interface is poorly designed? Interesting post on the subject http://tinyurl.com/m93nd9

This post from CodingHorror.com should be bronzed: This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI http://tinyurl.com/y6bajp

Just got more CFML tag examples to run directly on Railo. http://www.runrocket.com. Railo rocks!

Having fun with the MVC Cairngorm framework in Flex. Just got a kudo from Hal Helms. Life is good.
Interesting post from 37 Signals. http://bit.ly/qBed9

After 2 years of on again, off again coding, my new code/blog site is up : http://www.runrocket.com

Looking back at my career, all software is a compromise between four things, budget, time, clear objectives, and code perfection.
The definition of a nerd is someone who uses a computer to talk about computers. Ahhhh .....
Enjoying my 3 year old run around pretending to be a construction worker. Rereading Head First Java. Great book!