In light of the departure of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast (so long Matt and Peter, and thank you!), I have assembled a list of my favorite “shows” or “episodes”. Really, all of the episodes were good and worth hearing. But these episodes were fantastic.
Presented in chronological order:
- v1.5 - IDEs of…April: Came at a perfect time for me, because I had just switched to CFEclipse recently. So it was great confirmation for me and I enjoyed the Eclipse plugin recommendations. This episode is good for anyone still using Dreamweaver or HomeSite.
- v1.6 - Version Control: Also had great timing, because I had already committed myself to exclusively using Subversion but hadn’t yet set up my Subversion server. While you’re at it, check out the follow-up episode on v1.29 - Source Control Revisited. These episodes are a nice way to be introduced to version control for web development.
- v1.10 - Design Pattern Safari: Probably one of the most classic episodes and a must-hear. All about design patterns like beans, DAOs, etc.
- v2.01 - Rise of the Virtual Machines: Discussion of virtualization technology on both Macs and Windows. Great discussion, because I think this is an important technology for web developers; I am a big proponent of virtualization.
- v2.02 - Cryptology and Security: This was very interesting because of the information that was discussed regarding encryption, hashing, and salt.
- v2.15 - Mark Mandel on Transfer: Very good consideration of the popular ORM, Transfer.
- v2.27 - Selenium: Discussion on testing your apps on the client side with Selenium.
- v3.06 - Open Source BlueDragon: Discussion with Vince Bonfanti about BlueDragon going open source.
I will miss Matt’s Vista rants. :-) Thanks to both of you for all of your hard work.
If you’re hankering for a podcast to listen to, Brian Meloche is picking up where Matt and Peter left off with a new podcast called CFConversations. W00T!
This is old news now, but it’s worth noting that AppleInsider released a 3-part series of articles about Flash. Check them out here:
Whether you love Flash, hate Flash, love Adobe, hate Adobe, or are neutral with the whole thing, this series is disturbingly prejudicial and biased. Comments on the posts even say as much. This is certainly disappointing, because I like AppleInsider, Apple, Adobe, and Flash. But these articles have a predisposition that results in negative interjected commentary in what would otherwise have been an interesting consideration of the history of Flash.
Boy, 16 Sector is drawing this thing out longer than I’d hoped. They’ve got something up their sleeve for the few Apple II enthusiasts around us.
Yes, a new piece of Apple II hardware will be coming our way very shortly. The cat’s almost out of the bag! The good ol’ days of the Apple //e and Apple IIgs are what really make me nostalgic. I even purchased an Apple IIgs recently on eBay and I’m just saving it in the box with plans to break it out when I get around to finishing my new attic office space.
For clues on the odd antics of the 16 Sector site, check the commentary at A2Central.com in their post, “More 16 Sector riddles“.
p.s. A big “hear! hear!” goes out for that post in regard to the return of the great Carrington Vanston of 1MHz fame!
Back in the day, I used to always love mentioning the supposed quote from Bill Gates, which would have marked him as significantly short-sighted: “640k is more memory than anyone will ever need”, or some close variant thereof.
We love to quote it, because we love to hate Bill Gates and yet we can relate with the amazement of ever greater RAM requirements. For instance, I never thought when my powerhouse Mac came with 128MB of RAM that one day I would have a Mac with a video card holding more RAM than that! Insert similar nostalgic reflection here, ad nauseam.
Well, now I can just feel stupid and short-sighted without pointing the finger at Bill Gates. I never even thought to verify the quote until today for some unknown reason I decided to. Sure enough, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an official citation, and Bill Gates denied ever saying that.
