by danwatt | Nov 28, 2017 | SQL
There have been a handful of times over the last few years where I have needed to take time series data, and group the runs of data together to determine when a certain value changed, and how long it stayed that way. Every time I do this, I have to go back and figure...
by danwatt | Nov 10, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
One more from the archives of the company dev blog, this time from August 2011. We have been gradually moving off of ColdFusion over the last several years, but maybe there is something in here that might be useful for someone. We have been using ColdFusion 9 for a...
by danwatt | Nov 3, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
This is another article from the retired company blog. This one is from September, 2011. I have been developing ColdFusion on and off for about 10 years, and one topic that has been controversial the entire time is CFScript. The arguments go back and forth:...
by danwatt | Nov 1, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
Im continuing to clear out articles from the retired company development team blog. This one, was instrumental in getting me connected with one of my first big side work projects, which evolved into a two year project that helped us retire our mortgage. From August...
by danwatt | Oct 20, 2017 | Programming, Work @ Dave Ramsey
I used to blog periodically on my company’s blog. Earlier this year, the blog was taken down, and I needed to reference something I posted from 2012. I’ve restored the post using the Wayback machine here. The information is a little dated, but maybe it...
by danwatt | Jun 18, 2017 | Programming
Gradle 4.0 is out. It is fast, much faster than Maven. I tried it out on 3 projects that I maintain, and all of them saw build times cut in half (longest one was 86 seconds -> 40 seconds). cukes-rest – I am really late the to the Cucumber / Gherkin party, and I...
