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Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Cloud expert, Author, Speaker, and Internet Guru (follow Twitter / identi.ca)

Recruiting graduates can be an interesting and yet frustrating thing any company can do. With unemployment in the graduate world rising, there are things potential sofware graduates can do to help themsevles.
Sunday, 4 July 2010

Welcome to the first steps of the OpenBD manual, a resource to get started and learn all about the wonders of CFML and how you can utilize it in your enterprise and webapps
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Have you been out of pocket due to a faulty blackberry app? Did you pay for something from the Blackberry App Store and have no where to go? Want to hear from you.
Monday, 31 May 2010

The Blackberry App Store is a perfect place to have your 3rd rate applications distributed with no chance of recourse if people complain. Perfect place to make money and screw the mobile consumer
Sunday, 30 May 2010

Proud to release the initial version of the CFML Debugger for OpenBD. You will never develop CFML the same again. Easy to install and use you'll be stepping through your CFML code in minutes.
Monday, 22 March 2010

The CFML language was crying out for a specification for a long time, but is it really still relevant? Who gains from it, and who loses from it?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010

I have updated the CFML Javascript plugin for OpenBD to now support frameworks, such as JQuery, that allows us to render server side pages using CFML and JQuery
Monday, 1 February 2010

Following on from my previous post, cloudkick, has published their network latency findings within Amazon's EC2 clearly showing a major problem brewing within at least one of their data centers.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Amazon EC2 is increasingly under load, but when you start to see internal pings around 7seconds with regularly shell freezes this is more than a freak one off incidents. Amazon appear to be struggling with the load.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

A simple JQuery Plugin that adds line numbers to a standard HTML TextArea box
Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Using dynamic datasources just got a whole lot easier with OpenBD by the introduction of 3 new functions to help creating dynamic datasources infinitely easier.
Friday, 1 January 2010

After my busiest year of air travel, I am not shocked that someone managed to smuggle items onto a plane. It really isn't that difficult, and as anyone that frequently flies, security isn't all its cracked up to be. Some tales from the frontline
Monday, 28 December 2009

Amazon announces full EBS bootable images - this means no more data loss when your instance goes offline irrespective of where you have stored your data on the file system. Faster boot times and a new geographic location announced.
Thursday, 3 December 2009

Declaring CFC's in Javascript is now possible with CFJS and OpenBD.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The first alpha server-side Javascript plugin is now available for playing with. Still much to do, but the first release gives a view of where we are heading and the possibilities of where we can go.
Thursday, 26 November 2009

I have been developing a plugin that enables Javascript to be used within CFML apps. Instead of coding CFSCRIPT blocks, you can use pure Javascript and get at all the CFML richness underneath. This is an introduction to that effort.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

A revolution has begun, with the introduction of live CFML (JavaDoc like) documentation for OpenBD functions and tags. Never again, will you forget or misuse a function.
Sunday, 15 November 2009

Java5 officially dies today. Let us mourn the passing of a revolution in Java development and look at the legacy he leaves us.
Friday, 30 October 2009

Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Engadget falls into the same trap that many bloggers/journalists have; not everything that runs in a browser is cloud computing. One server fault does not mark the end of cloud computing. It does leave many asking what cloud computing is.
Sunday, 11 October 2009

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