Today marked the 1 year anniversary for my blog.
Obviously one would think that this means that I’ve been blogging for a year. I think it would be more appropriate to state that this means it has been a year since my first blog. What’s the difference? Well let us look at the blog stats for the past year.
I attended my very first ColdFusion User Group meeting with the SoCal CFUG and I must admit I enjoyed myself. I really wasn’t sure what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised by the experience. Charlie Arehart was our guest speaker and presented via Connect all the way from the East Coast. At the end of the night I had a belly full of pizza, an Adobe T-shirt and better knowledge of some of the new features in the latest ColdFusion release. Oh and I won a free training course to boot.
After getting fed up having to deal with the mundane and time consuming task of creating Beans, DAOs and Gateways in my Mach II development, I decided to look into the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator that was created by Brian Rinaldi. I’m still in the process of customizing my XSLT templates to my own coding methodology and conventions but I can already see the light (and the future savings of hours upon hours coding!). On top of the gains in productivity there was also the added bonus of having picked up a couple of coding techniques from Brian’s templates. One in particular is what I like to call a Bean Dump. Yes, a Bean Dump (and no, I'm not talking about the type that you get from eating too many burritos).
