http://www.danvega.org/blog Dan Vega's home on the web en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 03:01:20 -0500 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:24:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss danvega@gmail.com danvega@gmail.com danvega@gmail.com no http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/20/Runners-I-need-your-advice I have always loved running but it's been more of a casual thing until now. This year I plan on kicking up my running game and just last night I recorded my longest non stop run ever of 8 Miles. I have some short term goals and some long term goa... Random Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:24:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/20/Runners-I-need-your-advice http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/17/Tail-files-with-PowerShell PowerShell is a pretty useful shell when you start learning what it can do. I have been using it a lot more lately and I want to show you a couple of tips for reading in files. The Get-Content cmdlet allows us to read in the contents of a file. ... Random Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/17/Tail-files-with-PowerShell http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/16/My-First-Tough-Mudder About two and half months ago a friend told me about this event called the Tough Mudder. I was intrigued and intimidated so I decided to look into it. The Tough Mudder website describes the event as Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mi... [More] Random Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:41:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/16/My-First-Tough-Mudder http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/13/Looking-for-a-ColdFusion-developer-in-Cleveland Yesterday I announced my plans to join First Comp. Today I would like to help my current employer fill my position. I really like the people here and the company is doing some great things. This is why I want to help them as much as I can to find my ... Web Development ColdFusion Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:06:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/13/Looking-for-a-ColdFusion-developer-in-Cleveland http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/12/I-am-joining-First-Comp Today is one of those life changing days that are few and far between. This morning I am sad to announce that I will be leaving my current position of Senior Web Developer at STERIS, effective April 27, 2012. This position was a great learning experi... Random Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/12/I-am-joining-First-Comp http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/10/Hyrule-Updates Thanks to a some contributions from a friend, we will call him Lance, we were able to make some important updates to the project over the last week. If you have never heard of or used Hyrule please check back soon as I am going to start a new series ... Hyrule ColdFusion Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:40:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/4/10/Hyrule-Updates http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/29/Writing-efficient-code What is efficient code? Efficient: Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. In some instances this means writing less code but but that's not always the case. When we first start off as eager programmers (and wanna... jQuery Web Development Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:14:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/29/Writing-efficient-code http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/29/Component-output-script-vs-tags There was a discussion about output in a component yesterday on a post by Ben Nadel. I thought I would take a chance to clear this up today because even after a comment I left on the post I was a little bit confused. Long before ColdFusion 9 and s... ColdFusion Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:23:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/29/Component-output-script-vs-tags http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/1/Testing-REST-Services-in-Chrome I was having some issues yesterday implementing a rest service. At the end of the day I learned a valuable lesson that will stick with me going forward and one that I would like to share with you today. If you need to write code against 3rd party API... Web Development Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:18:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/3/1/Testing-REST-Services-in-Chrome http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/2/29/Coldbox-Bootstrap-Starter-Template Most of my new applications these days are built using ColdBox and Bootstrap. Whenever I start a new project I take some time to customize Coldbox to my liking that included converting the components to script and setting up the layouts & views using... ColdBox ColdFusion Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:49:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/2/29/Coldbox-Bootstrap-Starter-Template http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/2/29/Help-with-calling-a-rest-webservice I am currently working on implementing a new rest service and I am having some issues. In the following example I am performing a basic GET operation to return a count of lists that I have in my account. subscriber = { editLink... ColdFusion Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:28:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2012/2/29/Help-with-calling-a-rest-webservice http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/12/1/ColdFusion-Position-here-in-North-East-Ohio A position opened up at a company that I used to work for. The position description is below and if you have any questions about the company please feel free to ask. The successful candidate will be an experienced ColdFusion programmer skilled in ... ColdFusion Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:34:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/12/1/ColdFusion-Position-here-in-North-East-Ohio http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/11/Getting-the-public-IP-address-of-a-visitor I know this may seem like a pretty easy question but I have yet to find the answer. I am working on a project at work where we have 2 sets of data and only certain visitors can see certain data. We have 1 set of data that can only be shown to users v... Web Development ColdFusion Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:09:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/11/Getting-the-public-IP-address-of-a-visitor http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/8/Getting-started-with-Mura-CMS it really has never been easier to get started with Mura CMS. In fact I am going to show you how to get started today without ever visiting the Mura website or setting up a database & datasource. To get started using my method you need to be runni... Mura CMS ColdFusion Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:45:36 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/8/Getting-started-with-Mura-CMS http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/8/Nodejs-and-you Node.js is the hottest thing the tech world has had to talk about this year. In case you didn't know, Node.js is a server platform for application development that makes building high-availability APIs and real-time applications really simple. And th... TV Tuesday Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:23:00 -0500 http://www.danvega.org/blog/2011/11/8/Nodejs-and-you