Taliesin's Island

As developers, many of us, at one time or another, take on the role of designer. When doing so, getting our customer to finalize and agree on a design and then stick with their decision can turn into a frustrating process. Paul Boag, one of my favorite designers, has some good insight on this in his presentation, "Educating Clients to Say Yes". Pa… Continue

In my last blog post, I mentioned that I was going to be spending time reading how others have applied OO principles to ColdFusion. Naturally, my reading led me to various frameworks used with ColdFusion to accomplish and/or manage some of the tasks that I have been performing manually. Tasks such as instantiating and managing data access objects (DAO) and other business logic CFCs. I usually create these as singletons… Continue

Since my last post, I have been quite busy using my new found knowledge. For the last two months I have been busy working on the project that prompted my company to send me to the ASP .Net training. The developer I had the pleasure of working with is very knowledgeable. He used to work for Microsoft as one of the developers responsible for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. He was one of those developers that I have Hal Helms mention. One who listens to your ideas with interest even though they… Continue

My next step to learning ASP .Net and C# was to find some structured training. Time is a factor on the project I'm working on so the training needed to be intense. I found just such training provided by the folks at Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. After reading the topics covered and the time in which they cover it, I thought that if I could keep up, I would not be bored.

My only concern about an intense training is that I di

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It's funny, developers tend to get used one language or technology, sometimes we get the mindset that we are a {insert language here} developer. I know, because it has happened to me. As a ColdFusion developer, I have found myself in the mindset that things need to be done in ColdFusion. I know I am not alone in this because during a number of conversations following my company's decision to have me learn ASP .Net and C#, I found myself being asked the same question, “Are you still going to deve… Continue