After far too long, I’ve migrated this blog to a WordPress-friendly hosting account, with a new HTML5-powered responsive design. Continue reading
October 15, 2011
by Kay
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
September 21, 2011
by Kay
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Endings and beginnings
This blog has an identity crisis. In the beginning, way back in 2003, it was started as a ColdFusion-focused web development blog. But now – well, now it’s something quite different entirely. Continue reading
May 27, 2010
by Kay
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Death by caffeine
Caffeine is important to the productivity of geeks. Well, of anyone, I suppose. I had a wicked caffeine addiction that I managed to kick by travelling in Europe for 3 weeks in 2008. The combination of not being able to … Continue reading
May 24, 2010
by Kay
Complete the humorous history of programming languages
Circulating the nerd-o-sphere at the moment: A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. This stuff is pure gold. Some examples: 1940s – Various “computers” are “programmed” using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to … Continue reading
January 26, 2010
by Kay
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Not a proud Aussie
Today is Australia Day. A day that’s really only been celebrated consistently in the last 15 years or so although it was around for most of last century (thanks to Anonymum for passing along this link on the history of … Continue reading
September 29, 2008
by Kay
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Wishing Adam Lehman a speedy recovery
I heard via Twitter this weekend that Adam Lehman, Adobe ColdFusion evangelist, has been hit by a car in London and suffered some broken bones. Fortunately he’ll be ok, and from reading his tweets it sounds like he’s having way … Continue reading
March 25, 2008
by Kay
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Annoying blog trait: please stop trying to hijack the browser window
When compiling my “week in ColdFusion” blog posts for SitePoint, I sometimes come across JavaScript “frame-busting” scripts that drive me around the bend. Let me explain… After a long time as a FeedDemon user, I switched to Google Reader. Much … Continue reading
January 16, 2008
by Kay
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Is it time to retire?
This post originally appeared on the now-defunct ‘Zombiecoder Kay’ blog. This blog, I mean :) The history of Zombiecoder is thus: I started blogging on my original personal web site, http://kay.smoljak.com/. After the MXDU conference in 2003, I got added … Continue reading