Joshua Rodgers

It's been a really long time since I've wrote anything except little one sentence blurbs on facebook or twitter.  Granted I like doing that, but realistically I have a lot more to say then a sentence or two a day.  My blog will be changing dramatically, first off I won't be writing much about technology from a development perspective any longer, that ship has sailed and frankly their are a lot smarter people out there then myself that are doing a fine job.  With that, I will write an occassional blurb on the hardware side of technology, afterall I am engineer and I've been known to get pretty excited about things as simple as phones, new platforms and unmanned vehicles.  

In the very near future most of my post will focus around one of the below topics with a personal flavor attached to it:

• Fitness (Supplements, Nutrition, Intervals, Old School Workouts)
• Cycling (a new found love)
• Conservation
• Music
• Technology
• Volunteering
• Leadership

It's time to dust off the blog, and start fresh.  Stay tuned for some very aluring post on all things related to me, afterall the site is called JustJosh'n.

Hola, been awhile since I posted on my blog.  Been a bit busy ;)

At any rate, got a quick question on the advantages of Ruby On Rails... vs. say using Coldfusion?   Any takers on enlightening on why I would move over to RoR if I already know and use CF?

A small team in my Company are trying to get AIR approved as a Company standard for Rich Desktop Applications.  We already have Flex 2 & 3 approved, but would like to go one step further and start developing AIR apps for internal uses.  One thing we are needing is a list of Best Practices for Deployment and Security.  Was curious if anyone could share some information on best practices you have came across during your experiences? 

Just post them here so everyone can see them and leverage it!

Thanks in advance!
Josh

As a developer I mostly sit on my butt and do absolutely nothing but type, move my arms and occassionally get up to use the bathroom. I drink excessive amounts of coffee, energy drinks, candy, the works... typical developer right? Well i cant speak for us all, but I can definitely speak for myself. At one time I was actually extremely active in gymastics during college, played basketball, ran alot, worked out in the gym. Typical college stuff that I grew accustomed to when I was unemployed and the most important thing in my life was having fun and making sure my homework was done.

Now that I am pushing 31, life has changed quite a bit. I work, eat and sleep. Sometimes I just work and sleep forgetting to do the eating part (probably due to the execessive amounts of caffeine). I decided that this is a one way ticket to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.. and turned over a new leaf about 2 weeks ago. I started swimming and doing strength training, but I really wanted to start running. Funny thing happened was I was checking out the Degrafa website and saw the chart examples Joe Johnston did mimicing Nike+ charts. I was curious and went to Nike+ and realized they made shoes that could communicate to your iPod Touch or Nano. Being the tech savy dork I am, I went out

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I ran into a very odd issue this week with Coldfusion 7. I have an application that I have had up and running for a couple years and I made some database changes, CFquery (DAO) changes. Since I use Illudium-PU 37 Generator for most of my Bean, DAO, Gateway, & services I automatically get the benefit of being reminded about cfqueryparam (Thanks Brian). Unfortunately this time around I didnt regen the files, I simply went in and made a couple modifications since I only added like two columns to the table.

Well all went well for like a week, than all of a sudden I started getting this crazy error. I kept getting a message saying "Invalid Parameter Binding(s)" and it wasnt even the new columns I just added, it was something else entirely.

I did some digging in my cfdump of the cfcatch error message, I discovered that for some odd reason Coldfusion was converting a bit into a integer even though both my bean, ActionScript Value Object and the cfqueryparam were all set to a boolean value / cf_sql_bit. So when flex sent over the data to CF all was well, but when it sent the data to the DAO.cfc to do a save/update into the database the cfqueryparam was sometimes doing it right and sometimes doing it wrong, it was really -- really hard to duplicate the error message, but here is what it the message was returning in the cfcatch...

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