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Hal Helms

Real World OO Class

Date: Oct 20-24
Place: Sarasota, FL
Price: $3800
Goal: Really "get" OO development and leave transformed

For more info, see my blog post at: http://www.coldfusioncommunity.org/profiles/blog/show?id=1439641%3ABlogPost%3A23526.

Hal Helms's Blog

Clients...Who Needs 'em?

It's ironic that dealing with clients is one of the most frustrating aspects of development -- ironic because, but for the clients, there would be no development! I've often noted that taking on a client shares similarities with raising a child. Those parents reading this will acknowledge that the first, sine qua non responsibility of a parent is to love their child. If my son knows that I love him, then all the other responsibilities of a parent are possible, if not easy. But without th… Continue

Posted on 4th October 2008 at 3:39pm —

The Secret to Big Ideas, Version II

Editor's Note: Version I of this blog post presented a file found on Hal's computer. This blog post presents another file found on the same computer. The reader should determine which of these holds better advice. Companies and organizations and, well, all of us are looking to maximize our impact or leverage. And the Holy Grail for maximizing leverage is the Big Idea. A big idea is big just because it promises a large impact. Smaller ideas, sometimes referred to as "tweaking", can… Continue

Posted on 26th September 2008 at 1:45am — 1 Comment

The Secret to Big Ideas, Version I

Editor's Note: It appears that Hal was planning on doing a blog post on big ideas. He emailed me from his palatial digs on the South Sea island he recently purchased to ask me to post it for him. Looking at his computer, we found several possible blog posts. Unable to reach him to determine the correct one, we'll present them in sequence and let you choose which one he intended. Hey, friend! Want to know the secret of having big ideas? Sure you do! You want the fame, the prestige, the ad… Continue

Posted on 23rd September 2008 at 9:08pm — 1 Comment

Charles: Funny Name; Great Tool

A while back, one of my colleagues pointed me to a great tool for Ajax debugging. It's called "Charles" and it's billed as a " HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy" app. This is a really wonderful tool that allows you to see all the interaction (Ajax and otherwise) between a client and server. And "installing" Charles is simplicity itself: no configuration needed. It comes as both a free and a paid version. The difference is that the free version shuts down after 30 minutes. The paid versi… Continue

Posted on 22nd September 2008 at 5:12pm —

Curing the Content Gathering Blues

Over the weekend, I was reading some old posts from alistapart.com. Weird as it may sound, we often have more problems with simple websites than with complicated web applications. One article that really caught my attention was on solving the problem of waiting around (and around...) for content from clients. In the article, the author proposes offering copy editing rather than copy writing. Very interesting read:… Continue

Posted on 15th September 2008 at 6:39pm —