The Blog of J.J. Merrick

If you are seeing this

J.J. Merrick — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:38:19 +0000

Visit my new blog at http://blog.cyber-jay.com

Scorpio ColdFusion 8 Public Beta Out!

J.J. Merrick — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:20:46 +0000

Get it while it’s HOT!

I’ve installed it and am going to start playing around with the CFForm stuff. YAY!

ColdFusion… A Dead Skill?

J.J. Merrick — Mon, 28 May 2007 00:57:17 +0000

Computer World has an article about the top 10 “dying” or dead computer skills. Low and behold ColdFusion is listed.

I am getting sick and tired of people dissing CF. I really think that all the negative is due to the fact that it has been around for so long. In the world of fly-by-night languages ::cough cough:: ruby ::cough cough:: that if it isn’t new and buggy it isn’t “cool”.

I love ColdFusion because it allows me to get things done and fast. I was able to build a whole marketplace in almost 4 weeks and in my spare time! It would have taken a team of developers to do it in 2 months what I did in 4 weeks… did I say that was in my SPARE TIME!

So to all the haterz get a life. ColdFusion is around, it’s awesome and I am no less a programmer if I use it.

done.

Hi I’m Ruby on Rails

J.J. Merrick — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:32:52 +0000

I have to say I am not the fanboi of RoR and I think to compare Rails to a language is kind of dumb… but all that aside these are pretty funny. I think more because the opposing languages are represented so well.

Wanted: Forta AKA…

J.J. Merrick — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:08:05 +0000

Well I got the opportunity to meet the great Ben Forta last week when he came to Nashville on the Scorpio tour 2007 (t-shirts pending). It was an awesome time and I can’t wait for Scorpio to come out.

In Forta’s blog he links to a picture that just about sums it all up… just not right!