Cameron Childress' Blog

Sumo's New Office Digs

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:33:00 -0500

A few months ago, Sumo moved into office space in West Midtown Atlanta with design shop maybe.for.you. Considering our recent office upgrades I figured it was finally time to make a blog post about it. The space is inside what was formerly a l...

Operation Bootcamp Is Over - Tale of the Tape

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:23:00 -0500

It's over, and here's the tale of the tape... Days since OBC began: 25 Total pounds lost: 12.8 (is 201.4, was 214.2) Body Fat improvement: 4.3% (is 18.5%, was 22.8%) Mile time improvement: 2+ minutes! (is 6:29, was ~8:30) Pushups: 1 more (i...

Operation Bootcamp - The Long Run (Week Four)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:42:00 -0500

Well, I skipped my week three update, but I thought today would be as good as any to do another update. I'm at the middle of week four now (we get Friday off for the 4th). I only have two more session left, and I can definitely tell that bootcamp's...

New CF Podcast - CFConversations

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:17:00 -0500

There's anew CF podcast in town at cfconversations.com. The first episode features a roundtable discussion between Rick Mason, Adam Haskell, Aaron West, and Jeff Coughlin. You can subscribe to it via iTunes here.

Operation Bootcamp - Week Two Begins

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:03:00 -0500

Well, I've survived a week of Operation Bootcamp and week two began this morning. I've done pretty well with following the workout and diet schedule. Thursday night I made it through an APWBWGTTD (Atlanta People With Blogs Who Get Together To Drink...

Torture, Pain, Bootcamp

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:03:00 -0500

Yup - today I started a fitness bootcamp in Atlanta called Operation Bootcamp. The specific bootcamp I'm inflicting on myself is held at 6:00AM at Candler Park, but they are also held in other locations around Atlanta. I'll be doing this every week...

How to Debug Fullscreen AIR Apps on a Secondary Display

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:10:00 -0500

Like many developers, I have a dual monitor setup. I also have certain monitors that over time have become the "Home Display" for certain programs. I almost always write code on the left-hand display (my OS primary). Firefox and applications I am ...

Nortel NetDirect VPN Problems on Vista - TapAdapter IP not Assigned

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:22:00 -0500

Posting this for consumption by Google, so that when this happens to me again I can search Google and find the answer on my own blog. Then I feel silly. Then I am happy I solved my problem. NetDirect is a Java based VPN client that requires a th...

How to Automatically Detect That Debugging Is Active in Production

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:04:00 -0500

By now you should know that it's best practice to keep debugging turned off on production servers. Even when debugging is restricted by IP, ColdFusion busily goes about collecting debugging information for every page request, even though it's not di...

How to Automatically Log Off Disconnected Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Sessions

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:29:00 -0500

I've frequently heard complaints about people forgetting to log off when they end a Remote Desktop session. Instead they simply close the window, leaving their session running on the server. This orphaned session becomes a problem in many cases beca...

High Scalability: 14 Best Practices From Yahoo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:59:00 -0500

Via the High Scalability blog, the Best Practices for High Scalability article and YouTube video presentation is worth checking out. Some of it's review, but there are alot of interesting metrics and data points in the video from Yahoo's Exceptional...

Flex 3 Final - Run Air App and Nothing Happens

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:44:00 -0500

I just ran into a somewhat frustrating to debug problem with running the final release of Flex builder. I just upgraded to the final release version of Flex Builder 3 from a beta version, and I found that suddenly my AIR projects would no longer run...

360Flex Atlanta Flickr Group Created

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:58:00 -0500

Quick post that I started a 360Flex Atlanta Flickr Group. Join and add photos. Or don't. Up to you...

Switch / NIC Auto Sensing Can Cause ColdFusion Server to Hang

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:03:00 -0500

It was interesting to see a recent post on Joel Spolsky's blog explaining that a recent service outage in their hosting environment was caused by accidentally setting their switch to auto-sense network speed. In the post, he acknowledges that they d...

Coworking in Atlanta

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:57:00 -0500

Working from home rocks! Working from home sucks! A lot of people I meet find out that I work from home and assume it's a nice fun thing to work from home all the time. It can be fun at times and it certainly gives me a little flexibility that I w...