Jamie

Recent Blog Comments By Jamie

• Ask Ben: What I Look For In A Potential Employee - Passion

  Posted on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:55 AM

  Two jobs ago, I got it because, as the hiring manager later told me, I said I'm "passionate about ColdFusion".... read more »

• Apple iPhone 3G Has Been Extremely Frustrating

  Posted on Aug 27, 2008 at 9:47 AM

  I like the "answer a call and 10 seconds later the ipod starts playing again, double the decibel level of the call while you fumble to navigate to pause it again" That's with the non-3g though... read more »

• Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Starring Harrison Ford

  Posted on Jun 10, 2008 at 10:18 AM

  @Brian - ...and a more general discussion of this versus other IJ movies, okay, I agree with you, sorry :) The movie is still worth seeing. The plot is sort of an afterthought, thrown together to support the George Lucas special effects and action. Still worth seeing, even if you know the whole p... read more »

• Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Starring Harrison Ford

  Posted on Jun 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM

  @Brian - We're a couple people sitting around talking about a movie we all saw, should expect nothing but spoilers! :)... read more »

• Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Starring Harrison Ford

  Posted on Jun 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM

  And how did the Spanish guy get the skull hundreds of years ago, when it crash landed in Roswell, and that skull also belonged to the alien in the ancient space ship, that had oodles of traps getting to it, that someone had reset at some time? More plot holes than swiss cheese.... read more »

• Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Starring Harrison Ford

  Posted on Jun 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM

  Omg, I'd forgotten about the Tarzan scene... Probably blocked it from my mind. For the most part, I was fine with the movie until the very end. A flying effing saucer... http://dyingstar.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/27/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Kingdom-of-Aliens... read more »

• Getting Certified In ColdFusion 8 Scares Me

  Posted on Aug 29, 2007 at 9:22 AM

  My last job, I got because I was CFMX certified. They didn't care about my $80k bachelor's degree, they liked the initiative shown in my $150 certification.... read more »

• Getting Certified In ColdFusion 8 Scares Me

  Posted on Aug 28, 2007 at 4:00 PM

  I failed my first try at getting CFMX certified a few years back. I thought "I've written ColdFusion for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for the last year and a half, how can I fail?" I wanted to upgrade to CFMX advanced before 8 came out, guess I blew my chance. Ben, if someone like you, who is co... read more »

• Lenny And Bo, ColdFusion Programmers (Vol. 31)

  Posted on Aug 7, 2007 at 9:25 AM

  lmao, best L&B yet... read more »

• Ignorance Rears Its Ugly Head Again

  Posted on Jul 17, 2007 at 9:50 AM

  If you talk to someone from New Atlanta, ColdFusion != CFML. ColdFusion is the Adobe product, a web application server; CFML is the tag based language that runs on said server. Last I checked, CFML wasn't in the top 20 languages currently in use. But if you look at how popular an application made ... read more »

• Hours And Seconds Work In ColdFusion DateFormat()

  Posted on Jul 12, 2007 at 9:18 AM

  A group of jellyfish is called a "smack" That is a more useless piece of information.... read more »

• Having Trouble Getting Back On The Coding Horse

  Posted on Jul 9, 2007 at 1:12 PM

  I've been in that "don't want to code" funk since the first of the year. I do Flex and CF for 8 hours at work, then come home. All I want to do at home is watch TV, play video games, or read a book. I have some great projects in my brain, just can't muster up the energy to turn them into code.... read more »

• CFUNITED Rocks - ColdFusion Rocks - You Guys Rock

  Posted on Jul 2, 2007 at 10:15 AM

  It was funny how the more well known names in CF development were treated like celebrities at CFUnited. Of course I'm no better. When you stepped out next to me at the dunk tank, I thought "omg! That's Ben!" before turning to say hi.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on Jun 28, 2007 at 9:30 AM

  lol, armory on your cell phone! "I wish I knew how I did in PVP last night, but I'm stuck in this all day meeting, I can't get on the armory to check! ... Oh wait, I can!"... read more »

• Come Work With Me At Nylon Technology (NYC ColdFusion Job Opportunity)

  Posted on Jun 22, 2007 at 12:17 PM

  Wowza! Learn something new everyday! Glad they concatenated it, looks better as a single word.... read more »

• Come Work With Me At Nylon Technology (NYC ColdFusion Job Opportunity)

  Posted on Jun 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM

  Tell the HR folks it's ColdFusion, not Cold Fusion :)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on May 19, 2007 at 1:34 AM

  And here's the original PHP site I found with armory stuff http://wow.tachyonsix.com/armory/. This guy caches all data for 12 hours, I wonder how much disk space that uses. The code's open source, might be helpful for developing more tools.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on May 19, 2007 at 1:31 AM

  @Matt Very nice! Wish I knew about your work months ago! I searched all over in February for other folks doing armory scraping with CF, only found ASP and PHP users. I had first wanted to pull armory data because I too was hosting my guild's web site. Then one evening the guild leader decided t... read more »

• Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on May 18, 2007 at 9:40 AM

  Thanks Ben! You're my hero!... read more »