Have you ever really wondered just how much time in your work day is non-productive or simply busy time? In order to manage your time better you have to become a master planner of your time. This allows us to be more proactive than reactive in our work day. What are some of the ways that let our productivity fall apart during our work day? Let me site some for you. How about the good ole “Got a minute” meetings that crop up in work environments where it is acceptable for anyone to interrupt anybody at any time? Do you have a pop-up email notifier? If you do, do you see the email subject and click on it? How about your Smart Phone or Blackberry notifications, does your hip vibrate every time you get an SMS, Chat, Email, Call or Voice Mail? For you MAC users, are you using Growl, or some other global notifier? The list can go on and on. The point is all of these so called conveniences are causing us to become reactive in our work day which takes away from our ability to become proactive. If you are more reactive than proactive, you should give these six easy steps a try. It won’t be easy, and you will have to promise yourself that you are going to stick to your guns come hell or high water! Read the rest of this entry »

I saw this clip on Today this morning and it brought a tear to my eye, so I thought that I would provide the clip with another outlet, because for any fellow animal lovers as am I, this is what it is all about…

Seems like a funny title since this blog is just getting started and, well, I am probably everyone at this point. But I thought that I would take a minute and remind everyone out there who seem to think that it is perfectly fine to forget about the history of the greatest country in the world, just exactly what Independence Day or more commonly called 4th of July in the USA is all about.

In the good ole’ USA, Independence day is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. And of course it is about cookouts, beer, brots, fireworks and good times, but it is certainly more than that.

I would like to personally thank the brave men and women of our armed forces, who put it on the line every single day so that we can remain a free nation and enjoy what our country has become.

What did George Carlin mean to you if anything? I am not trying to date myself here, but this guy was to comedy as were the Beatles to music. A man that was way ahead of his time, his progressive style and willingness to approach topics that were considered taboo by many, illuminated what a refreshing and true talent he was. George, comedy and the rest of the world will miss you. May you rest in peace.

As promised readers, I am going to take my own learning experience and use it to explain ColdFusion TAGS and how one might make use of them. Of course you can get a really in depth view using the livedocs provided by Adobe. But I thought that perhaps sharing my experience outloud would actually benefit me as well as be helpful to others that are learning this excellent development language.

<CFABORT>

Let’s take a closer look at this handy little devil. This tag falls under the category of Flow Control and for good reason because that is exactly what the tag does. It stops the processing (or flow of), a ColdFusion page at the point that you place the tag in your code. The great thing is that it returns everything that was processed preceeding the tag. Therefore this is a handy tool to use to track down errors in your application.

It has a very simple syntax consisting of only one attribute.

So that’s it on this easy to use flow-control tag. Remember livedocs is a great reference tool visit it.