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.

Back in the Flow of Things

December 5, 2007
It's been quite an eventful past couple of months. Lots of fun and exciting stuff have been happening in my life. I've said Aloha (Good bye) to Hawaiian Telcom after nearly two and a half memorable years and Aloha (Hello) to Campaigners, a division of Advantage Sales & Marketing. This also meant I had to say Aloha (Good bye) to Honolulu, Hawaii and Aloha (Hello) to Los Angeles, California. In the middle of all this I've had to wrap up last minute projects, pack up all my stuff, find a new place to call home, buy a car and attend one of my best friend's wedding while serving on his court. With all that's been happening it was really tough to find time to blog. Hopefully this has now changed.

From time to time I’m asked to do data mining on large (millions of records) data sets. These files normally come to me as CSV or text files so I am able to leverage the use of bulk inserts as an efficient way to load large data sets into your database. I have also come across instances where I needed to integrate this process with ColdFusion to automate certain business processes.

Bean Dumps

August 26, 2007

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).