I'm currently in the process of updating the visual design and layout of this site, possibly moving into another CMS system; meanwhile, enjoy the many new articles that have been added!

I created this site to help distribute information on my three languages: ColdFusion, PHP, and relational databasing. My goal is to make the information easy to read, with a laid back kind of language. Information is presented as web pages, usually with backup material such as PowerPoint slide shows, PDF files, and code samples.

A lot of this content is generated from presentations I did for various groups, workshops, and the like.

Latest Articles:

SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 7 - November 2, 2009

For our final advanced training session, we explored a variety of ways to identify bottlenecks that may be hindering application performance, and using caching and threading to deal with them.

SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 6 - September 24, 2009

Using cfdocument for generating PDFs from HTML, cfpdf to manipulate existing PDFs, and using cfpdfform to pre-fill and process PDF form submissions; manipulating images using the cfimage tag and image functions; creating and consuming RSS with cffeed

SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 5 - September 2, 2009

Creating an exception handling framework by utilizing cftry/cfcatch, cfthrow, onError(), onMissingTemplate(), and the server-wide error handlers; code/content reuse with custom tags; basic .Net integration; utilizing web services

SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 4 - August 3, 2009

The next step in components, instance-based components, and using public/private methods, as well as the Administrator API and prototyping with cfinterface

SDG Advanced ColdFusion Training: Session 3 - July 9, 2009

Finishing up our advanced look into various data types by looking at arrays, structures, and complex data; includes hands-on practice suggestions