devnulled: A stream for software developers and engineers

It’s been pretty quiet lately in the ColdFusion topic section of my site. Between work, college, car hunting, selling the motorcycle, and usual life stuff, I’ve just not really had much time to write any new content here. I’ve been kicking the tires on Blackstone a bit, and will really start digging into it in the next week or two to try out some new things which will hopefully get me past a challenge in good sized project I’m currently working on at work.

Speaking of challenges, if you’ve ever needed a way to accomplish threading without jumping out into Java (which sucks to do if you are wanting to thread something such as database queries from CF DSN’s), within ColdFusion MX, you might want to check my article on CFDJ about how to accomplish threading and another interesting client side trick using HTTP Status Codes.

After finally giving-up for awhile on the fight against those comment spam bastards, I got around to implementing James Seng’s Turing Test plug-in for Movable Type. All comments have been re-enabled on all entries, which means that all comments for the past several years on my site should also be showing-up again. Hopefully this fixes the spam problems I’ve been having.

Of course this is just another duct-tape measure until I somehow find some time to convert this site to WordPress…

I just found a site which has has a list of the ten geekiest hobbies, and I’m proud to say I don’t partake in any of them. About as close as I get is owning the first of the Cowboy Bebop videos (and that still would not really even qualify as a “comic book”). Ironically, this list is very similar to a line item in my personal “do never date” list (of which I’ve learned the hard way)…

I used to work with someone who was into the live action role playing poo, and half of the conversations with said person as a follow-up of something I said started off with “Oh, that reminds me of this game I was in once…” I’m still not convinced that reality is bad enough to have to resort to doing the LARP’ing, plushies, etc. Then again, I claim to be at least somewhat sane and rational from time to time.
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