Cozmo's Dev Blog - Rants

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta... again.

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:28:00-0400

Or rather to be an Open Source developer, or specifically a Railo developer... It feels damn good to be out from under the whims of Adobe and to develop on a platform that is developed and maintained by people who actually care and even LOVE CFML. It has really sucked at times being a CF dev for the last 8-10 years but I stuck it out (You have NO IDEA what sort of crap and abuse I have (and other CF Devs) have to deal with). It is a fantastic platform that is hard to quit. CF devs are spoilt rotten by the ease of development that makes it hard to quit. But now that there are FOSS CFML runtimes... DAMN! It feels good to be a gangsta again. Making the jump to FOSS truly has been liberating. The future of my favorite web development stack is no longer being driven solely by a profit margin. BTW I have been wanting to say this to the stewards of CF (as have many other CF devs) for a long, LONG time: So long and thanks for all the fish.

How much does it cost to run a cluster of four physical machines running Adobe ColdFusion?

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:38:00-0400

Thirty four thousand dollars. Let that sink in for a bit. $34,000 for a 4 machine cluster and that is just for the software alone. Imagine yourself pitching the next "big thing" to venture capitalists and telling them that you need $34,000 in order to get a four machine cluster up and running. "So every physical machine that we add to the cluster will cost us an extra $8500 just for the software?" "Well yeah, but it is Coldfusion!!! It makes developers very productive!" "So does RoR, Groovie, Grails and a boatload of other FOSS/Free frameworks and technologies. Sorry but we need to keep the lights on... Next?"

This blog is Rick Roll Enabled.

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:11:00-0400

Someone actually tested my super advanced Ultramega OK anti "wow gold" spammer technology... so I rolled out a BadMotorBeta. Go ahead... try it. Add a comment and type in "wow gold" in the comment form and see what happens. I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU. Yeah. I thought so.... ya wuss. For the record: BadMotorBeta - copyright © 2009

It just works.

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:44:00-0400

Today I loaded up some old video games (Battle Zone 2 and Half Life) on my new Lappy (running Vista). It has shared video memory on a fairly low end 17" home laptop so I wasn't expecting much. I thought that they would run like crap if they even ran at all. I used to game a lot so I know that it used to take a bit of messaging/patching/finagling to get some games to work. I have not played a video game in at least 3 years so I did not know what to expect. Much to my surprise they worked.... In fact they worked GREAT. Gordon Freeman... long time no see!! Yesterday was another story. I was trying to set up a *nix based Jboss/Java Dev Environment using a VM. First RedHat. I am a RedHat guy from WAY back... So I saw that they had an evaluation version of their JBoss Server stack for VMware and I thought: Sweet!!! So I signed up for an evaluation of the RedHat Enterprise server w/the JBoss AS via the Vmware site. I download everything and get the VM set up, and I have to run through a hoop after hoop trying to figure out how to get entitled so I can patch the RedHat VM. After an hour I just give up. I go to the VMware site again so I can get a Linux based VM to run Jboss and I D/L this one. http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/362 I try to unzip it and I get the "Unexpected end of Archive" error. So I think... OK it got corrupt. It happens. So I try again......and......FAIL!!! Then DL the both of the OpenSolaris VMs from the VMware site. I can't get either of those to work. Nice. Then I go to SUN so I can get a Solaris VM right from the source. 5 minutes verifying my account and getting user/pass. Now I have to wait until it downloads... approx 3 hours from now (it is now 10 pm). I have a 6 meg connection and SUN's download manager only DL's one file at a time. Then I find out I cannot run the Solaris VM on VMware player on a 64 bit system... Another 20-30 min to DL and uninstall VMware player then install VMware server. THEN the VMware tools install hangs. Fark it. I give up. 12 hours later.. No Linux. No Solaris. No Jboss. I D/L Jboss for Windows. It works the first time. How is it I can get a ten year old Video Game to work but not the latest "Enterprise grade" Software? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Bash MS all you want but most of the time it Just Works.

Open Source my ass

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:54:00-0400

Open Source is starting to get on my nerves. I love open source about 90% of the time. But FF and Eclipse are turning into a bloated sacks of fark that makes MS's worst bloated sack of fark look like notepad. Let me see.... Right now FF is using 450 megs of ram and Eclipse is @ 358 megs. A browser using 450 megs of ram? I close out all but one browser window and it is still using 450 megs. Open what? Suck what? If a site has a flash video (like Youtube), FF pegs the processor of my 3 yr old (1.8 gig P4 - 1.28 gig ram) laptop and grinds it to a farking halt. Unusable. Flash videos also pegs my 2.8 gig duel processor HP box. Nice. No wonder I think that OSS zealots are idiots. "But OSS is FREE!" So is dirt. Blow me.

I don't know shit....

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:00-0400

If you are a CF developer (or web developer) and you are still using DreamWeaver or Homesite or CF studio and not using Eclipse or any other of the advanced IDE's like Komodo, Visual Studio, Aptana, NetBeans etc, *you literally have no idea what you are missing out on*. If you use F1 on DreamWeaver, Homesite or CF studio as a primary source of information about programming, CSS, HTML and your available options you are also missing a HUGE piece of information . I have been using Eclipse for about 9 months now and the one thing it has taught me is how little I know. When I first fired up CF studio some 10 odd years ago I looked at all the CF related buttons and the options and felt clueless. By using various Eclipse distros like the one provided by Pulse I feel even more clueless than I did 10 years ago. AND I have a working knowledge of web development and client and server side languages like JS, SQL, XML, XSL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, RegEx, CFML etc under my belt. As well as being exposed good doses of VB, ASP.NET, C#, ROR, Java, PERL, Python etc over the years. The one thing I am finding out that I don't know shit. At FSU the is an engraving on Dodd Hall that reads "The half of knowledge is to know where to find knowledge" Now I know the other half of knowledge is making sure that you are being exposed to *new* knowledge on a regular basis. If you explore Eclipse it will end up teaching you more than you can possibly imagine. Literally.

Attitude is everything.

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:29:00-0400

I was in a situation where I told two people that I had done something related to a technology. i.e. I made this technology do such and such. It was a nifty little trick, but nothing more than a little JavaScript 101. One person said: "Cool, show me how you did that." The other person said: "*This* I have to see". Say what? Attitude is everything.

Some of my favorite things: CF, PHP, Java, ROR all playing together. Literally.

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:16:00-0400

I am in search of the perfect application stack. There are many things about the above app stacks to love. I like them all. I have used all of the above to varying degrees. I have been on the Java train for some time and have been trying to get my head around it for the last few months. I wrote a couple POC apps in ROR to see what the hype is about and have been using PHP for years. And CF has been by my side for the last 10 years or so... A while back I was giving jRuby a spin using GlassFish and NetBeans and I really liked it. I liked it a lot. I also liked working with Java in NetBeans. The thing is, I can't get them to play together all under one roof. CF runs on Java so that is a given. PHP can play with Java a and ROR has been ported to Java via JRubyy. CF can talk to PHP and Ruby. I just wish I could get the all to run together, on the same machine, on the same web/app server, on the same port. So I tried to install CF 8 as a WAR file on GlassFish and it worked. But CF 8 Enterprise is $7500, so I tried installing Railo and that is running fine. I am about to see if I can get JRuby and php/Java bridge to run as well. If I can get all of these to run on the same server (on the same port) I will have the perfect platform. The RAD capabilities of CF and ROR, the bazillion OS PHP web apps out there and the power of Java (and bazillion prebuilt Java apps and tags as well).

I am copy righting this phrase

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:26:00-0400

Why I have problems sleeping

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:19:00-0400

My thought pattern. >> Spuds >> biology > DNA >> DNA = Persistent Data store >> So much data in on molecule. >> IS DNA relational? Can you query it? That is a fuck load of data!! Will databases become biological? How do you query a cell? Will we be able to make living mater into a hard drive? Will I sleep tonight?

Thomas Jefferson was a smart guy

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:07:00-0400

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny" "He who knows best knows how little he knows"

Yahoo chat

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:25:00-0400

I love web dev. I love to talk shop. I went to the web designers chat room on yahoo chat. I asked a question. I was abused, ridiculed, tormented and mocked for asking a question in a forum that encouraged people to share knowledge. What I found there was a group of elitist, abusive, condescending, too cool for Christmas, jaded assholes. It disgusted me in a manner is beyond words. They are the most insecure, trash talking, gossiping, "look he is down, kick him" bitches I have ever seen in my life. If geeks conducted themselves in real life in the same manner that they do online, their bodies would litter the streets. I am ashamed that I even share genome with these cretins.

Why God hates me

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:51:00-0400

This lovely little nugget of SUCK my predecessors left me fills me with the urge to vomit

Dear Adobe

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:23:00-0400

Thanx for pissing off the CF user base.