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Our team, The Detroit Ligers, lost 8 to 9 against the Tiffs.  It was a fun game despite the lose.  We were a little worried about the turn out but in the end we had more than enough people.

Me Hitting the Ball

Team Manager, My Cousin Ryan. Working hard to keep us organized.

Swing Batter Batter!

Near Miss, But a catch none the less.

Part three of my cf.Objective 2010 series.  Again I arrived a little late today.  Just over tired.  I got to Terry Ryan’s ORM talk about half way through.  When I walked in he was talking about lazy loading, extra lazy, and eager.  He mentioned how you can actually do a eager join when you load an object which instead of running separate queries two get all of the data you need it Hibernate will create a ‘large’ join statement that will pull all of the data in one query.  This was something I hadn’t previously heard of and sounded like it might have some good uses.  He went on to talk about Caching, Event Handling and Table Generation.

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Part two of my cf.Objective 2010 series.  I was a bit worried this day was going to be rough as I had been at the office until almost 10pm the night before.  I was a little late the first session and missed breakfast but for the most part I was more awake than I expected.  It helped that the first couple sessions weren’t entirely boring.  Actually the session on Flex 4 was pretty interesting, but still wasn’t earth shattering information.

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Through work I received the opportunity again to attend the annual cf.Objective Conference held in the Twin Cities.  I have attended the conference for the last four years since its inception in 2007.  To summarize it is a conference for advanced ColdFusion developers.  If you are brand new to ColdFusion you would be better off attending CFUnited. Some session you might see at cf.Objective would be about Frameworks, ORM, CF integration with Flex, etc.

In this post I am summarizing the sessions I attended on the first day.

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I new it was on it’s way out, but my Compaq Prisario v2000 finally died.  Just short of 6 years and showing the wear for it.  So I have moved on.

Meet the Dell Latitude e6400.  Not as stylistic as the XPS series but much more practical.  After having a laptop for so long I have discovered that the power of a desktop is no match for the convenience of a laptop.  But what to do with the quality peripherals I have acquired over time like my 22 in Samsung monitors.  Well… I have always wanted a docking station, hence the business class Latitude equipped with a docking port.

• Intel Core 2 Duo T9900 3.06GHz
• 4Gb RAM
• Windows 7 Professional 64bit
• 250Gb 7200rpm HDD
• Nvidia Quadro NVS 160m, 256Mb

Now I can use my laptop as my primary machine while still getting the high productivity of having two monitors a full sized Keyboard and Mouse.

For too long I have been telling myself I will create a website to promote my work and everything else important to me.  I have started so many site only to get distracted by real work.  After playing around with Word Press for work I am doing for a freelance client I discovered how powerful and well written it is.  Therefore I have given in and decided to start with Word Press rather than aspire to end with something like Word Press written on my own.

I think a big part of my failure to create a site was I kept getting hung up on the big picture.  I wanted to develop something that I could build upon over time.  I would start with a simple design and a few pages and never really get much farther than that.  A few months later I would give it another go.  Now I am going to start with Word Press as a base and build upon it with my own Themes and Plugins.