I was looking around the net for ways to dump queries into excel and I ran across this post on Todd Sharp’s blog <cfsilence>. I thought it was pretty cool, so I looked up the specifications on Microsoft’s site. Anyway, thanks to Todd for the inspiration. I had to take one or more queries and dump them to excel, so I decided to make CFC and share it with everyone. I hope this saves someone some time in doing something like this. Cheers.
I was working out this morning and I had an idea that would be interesting to watch. What if there was an Ultimate Programming Showdown? They have a hacking contest at security conferences, we developers should have a programming contest. I would go to see that, especially if you add in beer and cheerleaders.
Let’s think about what would happen at this event. We could take all of the best developers in a given language and put them down in front of neutral machines, much like a gaming contest. Then each person would be given a small app to build within a given time frame. Of course there will have to be some ground rules to keep the .NET and PHP folks from being cute and here are some I have been mulling over.
First, there can’t be any pre-built modules or classes, everything needs to be built from scratch. That means database connections, DAO objects, etc. The idea is to see which language would be the best and fastest to develop a project. Now we all know how this will end up, but I think it would definitely help the lemmings of the world see the power in each language.
I was also thinking that there would be a bracket system and rounds. I imagine the under the table betting on that would be spectacular. But besides that, it would be fun to watch and trash talk!
I am guessing that ColdFusion is going to smoke the competition in this type of competition, but I think it would be fun to watch. Here are the people I think would be top seeded:
Ben Forta: Because he British and well…he’s Ben Forta.
Ray Camden: I mean the guy is a Jedi.
Luis Majano: Simply because ColdBox is wicked complicated!
Hal Helms: Because I have nicknamed him ‘The Duke’ and I want to chat that someday.
Sean Corfield: Because I want to see Ray Camden and him battle it out.
Joe Rinehart: ModelGlue is pretty nutso as well.
Ben Nadel: Because he will probably show up with something kinky.
Adam Haskell: Fusebox…the first framework I learned.
Matt Woodward: Mach-II people.
Mark Mandel: Transfer.
I know I am missing some folks but those are the people at the top of my mind. Who else thinks this would be cool to see?
This post is really to test out the Wordpress app on the iPhone. I think that the app is fairly good for the quick post. I doubt I would write anything more than a few paragraphs, but it does quench my need to write more than 140 characters. I have gotten a lot better at typing on the keyboard which helps a lot. The one thinng I have noticed is that it’s pretty annoying typing out URLs, but there is image support so that’s good. Other than that it’s not too bad, and I can’t wait for the update.
This is as much a call for help as it is a mini venting session for me and a problem I had this afternoon working with the Blackberry Bold. I don’t know if anyone has played with writing apps for the Blackberry, but there are some interesting things that happen across the different models and their browsers. Well, this afternoon I was told that one of the ‘Back’ buttons, in the app I have been working with, was not working. Well, upon further inspection I found that this was a weird happening that happens on the Blackberry Bold. For some reason all of these variations failed to give me the desired effect.
window.history.back();
window.history.go(-1)
history.go(-1);
history.back();
I am not sure what else there is, but all those failed on the Bold. Has anyone out there see anything like this on the Bold? Does this happen on any other Blackberry models?
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