http://www.joelango.com Life is too short to write bad SQL. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:45:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cross-platform file copying is fun Last week, my Windows partition on my MacBook Pro died. During my restore (yes I had back ups), I realized that my backup drive is formatted in HFS+, which means I could not copy the files to my new Windows partition. Whoops Luckily, I am not the only one ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/10/25/file-systems-and-fun/ Well, I am 10 days into my Month of Macintosh, and I have some things to report. Renaming files in Finder is easy, but not very intuitive. Thanks to these folks for showing me the way. Macs have some interesting screen capture options, but to execute them you need flexible fingers. A ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/06/11/the-first-10-days-in-the-macintosh-wilderness/ I bought a 15" Intel MacBook Pro last November, and I set it up to dual-boot Win XP and OS X. It is my primary workstation, but I hardly ever use the OS X partition (okay, stop booing). I aim to change this practice, or at least to give OS X a ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/06/04/my-month-of-macintosh/ Last week, I saw a 2-hour demonstration of the newest version of ColdFusion. The CF development team showed off all the new bells and whistles, and I liked quite a few of them. Here is a rundown of a few things I saw during my formal introduction to Scorpio. Implicit Array and Structure ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/06/01/my-first-look-at-coldfusion-8-scorpio/ I think that nearly everyone who does database programming writes a statement like this at some point: SELECT * FROM tblFoo F WHERE F.pah = 791 Most database programmers should (and do) know not to do this. However, at my job I am constantly finding old SELECT * queries, usually because they broke something. This ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/04/30/why-you-should-never-use-select-star/ The new Daylights Saving Time (DST) begins on March 11. Most people will barely notice the change, but we technology folks get to go patch crazy. I work in a ColdFusion shop, so today we are upgrading the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for about 30 web servers. Fun stuff! Sometimes, ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changinyou-me-and-the-new-dst/ I just wanted to give a shout out to one of my favorite characters: the asterisk. The asterisk is awesome! It looks great in a code page, and it can multiply, too! Lets see you top that, pound sign (#)! Ha, you can't do it! So, whether I ... http://www.joelango.com/2007/02/02/shout-out/