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Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks 2013 – Mikado Method

By bigmadkev On 2013/04/06 · Leave a Comment

I have great pleasure to announce that I will be speaking at Scotch on the Rocks this year, it’s in Edinburgh again from Thursday 6 until Friday 7 June 2013. All attendees of will also get access to the MuraCon EU the day before Wednesday 5 June 2013.

My session will be a slightly improved [...]

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New Blog

By bigmadkev On 2013/03/23 · 1 Comment

After years of trying to support my own blog using a ColdFusion solution I’ve decided to move over and use the biggest one out there WordPress. I thought about using the free hosting option but then decided that I did have a few reason to still have some web space for me to use. My [...]

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When you think you know the requirements, double check

By bigmadkev On 2012/12/09 · 1 Comment

 
I was sitting on the edge of the bed,watching my girl friend, who was looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off I asked what she’d like to have for her birthday.
“I’d like to be eight again”, she replied, still looking in the mirror ..
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Need help with any CF Topic? CF411 is the place to go

By bigmadkev On 2012/10/07 · 1 Comment

A lot of seasoned ColdFusion developers don’t even know about the great resource that Charlie Arehart updates (He just posts the lists, the technologies they use is not his fault in any way, cough SILVER WHAT? cough) 
So if there is any ColdFusion related topic that you want to know about ensure [...]

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How I have been managing my work inbox for 2012.

By bigmadkev On 2012/09/04 · 1 Comment

Over the last couple of years since I have been working at GE the number of work related emails I get have been ever increasing, and so as I have always done I would file them away in to folders, but this wasn’t enough, I needed to be able to classify some emails into more than one folder.
Like many people I have a Gmail account and I love the way you can label things and have more than one label on an email so you can find it easily. From the start of this year I made a real effort to stop using Folder and to start using Categories and with the latest releases of Outlook you can setup search folders for categories.

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Product Roadmap for ColdFusion

By bigmadkev On 2012/08/14 · Leave a Comment

The Adobe ColdFusion Team have now released a Living Document of the Current Adobe ColdFusion Roadmap.
Some very exciting things coming up in the next couple of releases, which in my view will put Adobe ColdFusion back to where it should be!
Some great updates for both the Server and the IDE (ColdFusion [...]

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Speaking Engagements

By bigmadkev On 2012/07/30 · Leave a Comment

After the year from hell, things have settled and I’m getting myself back on to the speaking circuit and this time I’m going to push myself outside of my comfort zone, as I always try to at work (Otherwise life gets boring)
First of all I put forward a session for Lean Agile Scotland, [...]

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How to use SVN Patches in your Agile Workflow

By bigmadkev On 2012/07/30 · 4 Comments

I got this tip from a member of our Java team, I’ll be honest about it, I dismissed it for a while because I couldn’t see how it would help and basically couldn’t get my head round it. That was until a few months ago, when I was creating “Kev’s Fabulous ANT Script” (More on [...]

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Book Review: Team Geeks

By bigmadkev On 2012/07/26 · Leave a Comment

Team Geek: – A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well
with Others
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
Publisher: O’Reilly Media – Released: July 2012 – Pages: 194
For a book of so few pages, it has a lot crammed into it.
The authors have great backgrounds in [...]

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An Adobe Community Professional 2012-2013

By bigmadkev On 2012/07/17 · 2 Comments

I’m happy to annouce I’ve been renewed as an Adobe Community Professional again for 2012-2013.
With the year I’ve had, I haven’t been fully focused community wise, but now all is good full stem ahead.
 
Watch this space as they say

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How To Get Rid of Old Browser Versions

By bigmadkev On 2012/06/18 · 1 Comment

Hit People where it hurts – In their pockets!
An Australian web store has introduced a tax for using IE7 as they have to pay more to support their browser, but if you upgrade then their is no charge on your order!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979
This is an awesome idea!

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Subversion is still a Valid SCM in the enterprise.

By bigmadkev On 2012/06/11 · 2 Comments

Now I love GitHub, the whole idea of social coding is awesome, but within an enterprise/business I still feel that Subversion has its place namely because a lot of large organisations at this current time won’t want to invest money into changing the Source Control Management system from something that the management see as working. [...]

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MailSnag for Eclipse

By bigmadkev On 2012/06/07 · 2 Comments

If you’re like me and not quite one of the cool kids, and you’re staying with Eclipse as your Coding Editor there is a cool plugin I’ve used for a while called  Mail Snag
What it does it create a little SMTP Server in eclipse and you can point your [...]

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Are you an engineer or a programmer (computer scientist)?

By bigmadkev On 2012/06/07 · 4 Comments

I came across this story while I was doing some research work on a building an agile database solution for my team. (I’ll be blogging more about this soon, as I know databases seems to always be the one place that catch people out while trying to be agile)
The story is called “

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ColdFusion 10 Released + Free Updater to ColdFusion Builder 2

By bigmadkev On 2012/05/15 · Leave a Comment

ColdFusion 10 has now been released with all the great new features:
www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion 

Security enhancements Dynamic and interactive HTML5 charting Hotfix installer and notification Improved web services support Improved and revamped scheduler Object relational mapping enhancements Enhanced caching Support for HTML5 web sockets Enterprise Infrastructure Tomcat integration Microsoft® Office file interoperability Support [...]

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