14" MacBook Pro M1 Max Review for developers and content creators

I have been using the new MacBook Pro for about a week and wanted to give you my initial thoughts from a developer & content creator perspective.

From: Dan Vega

The new clojure-doc web site

Back when I was working on the clojure.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Social Media

I've been on both Twitter and Facebook for a very long time and it definitely has had its ups and downs.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

The simplicity of chaining calls in Spreadsheet CFML

The latest version of Spreadsheet CFML allows you to chain method calls for simpler, more expressive code.

From: cfSimplicity

GitHub Copilot for Java Develpers

Earlier this year GitHub launched Copilot, an AI pair-programmer. With GitHub Copilot, get suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor.

From: Dan Vega

Lucee Spreadsheet is now Spreadsheet CFML

The library has long supported Adobe ColdFusion but the new renamed version makes clear it supports ACF as well as Lucee.

From: cfSimplicity

deps.edn and monorepos VII (Polylith)

This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts about our ever-evolving use of the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and Polylith, with our monorepo at World Singles Networks.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

VueJS developer needed

We are looking for a VueJS developer.

From: ColdFusion Muse

CSS Guru Needed

First - Yes, we are still looking for CF help so keep sending those resumes.

From: ColdFusion Muse

deps.edn and monorepos VI (Polylith)

This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts about our ever-evolving use of the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and Polylith, with our monorepo at World Singles Networks.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Defining Application mappings using relative paths in Lucee

Lucee allows you to simplifiy mapping definitions in Application.cfc by using relative paths. But sticking to absolute paths may be more reliable.

From: cfSimplicity

Spring One 2021 Presentation

I'm so honored to be speaking at this year's SpringOne Conference. This article will give you a look ahead to the presentation by explaining what you can expect and the resources from my talk.

From: Dan Vega

deps.edn and monorepos V (Polylith)

This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts about our ever-evolving use of the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and Polylith, with our monorepo at World Singles Networks.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

tools.build

With the recent release of tools.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Job Openings: Looking for Help on the CF Tsunami

It's been a busy month here at CF Webtools.

From: ColdFusion Muse

deps.edn and monorepos IV

This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts about our ever-evolving use of the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and Polylith, with our monorepo at World Singles Networks.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else.

This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are bad and too hard to...

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Stupid Unix Tricks - Using $IFS in Web Application Command Injection Vulnerabilities for Full RCE

Awhile ago I was testing a web application and found a command injection vulnerability.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

deps.edn and monorepos III (Polylith)

Back in April, I talked about us dipping into Polylith at work in deps.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

deps.edn and monorepos II

A couple of months ago, I wrote about our use of deps.edn with our monorepo at work. I've updated that post to reflect changes we've made recently and I'm going to talk in more detail about those changes in this post.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Jobs Galore Come One and All

We are looking for 3 possibly 4 folks to hire at the moment.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Resolving directory lookup error on SQLServer backup restore

Restoring a SQL Server database to a new server with a different file system structure can result in a Directory Lookup error since SQL Server makes assumptions about file locations. Fortunately there is a simple solution by using 'WITH MOVE'

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer