ColdFusion 9 Goodie that kicks your ass in 8

I know the title may be a little exaggerating, but today this caused me a lot of headaches. I have a client which I am updating their site which runs on ColdFusion 8 and without noticing it appears I got a little lazy in typing my CreateObject statements, as so; While this works great in ColdFusion 9 it fails miserably in ColdFusion 8. I have no idea what got me into the habit of not typing what type of object to create but by default 9 assumes it is a component and it does not throw an error. So I had to update my source code to read ... Now all is good again.

Google Music out of beta

Seems like Google Music finally went out of beta today and it remains a free service which allows you to store up to 20,000 songs in your personal music library (Terms of Service).

The release also comes with a number of new features and a New Music Store on Android Market that works seamlessly with Google Music. The store has hundreds of free songs as well as millions of tracks available for purchase via the web or Android device. The purchases do not count towards the 20k song limit.

As far as social integration, it allows you to share a free full play of any purchase with your friends on Google+.

Even though I am a loyal iTunes user and do purchase 99% of my music thru there (yes there is that 1% that I've bargained shop at Amazon), I do like options and I think it is great that they finally made their full release of their own music service. In the end I really love and pay (testing as dev now) for iTunes Matching since most of my library was purchased on iTunes + I love how it integrates with all my iOS devices. I do have most of my music on the Google Library as well because I let their handy uploader do it all for me but it did take a couple of days to finish.

Anyways, glad it is out and for all you apple haters, there you go another option.

All hail Steve :-).

Steve we knew you were right ....

Guess they couldn't give you the upper hand while you were still around.

Adobe's statement in the style of a child ....

"We give up on Adobe Flash for Mobile .. pfftt ....whatever ... "

They also said HTML5 was a better technology, even though we all know that means more than 1 single technology and browser capabilities have enhanced, but it is for the laymen to comprehend. Words I heard you say a couple of years back when the original war started with Adobe.

Can't wait to see what you left for us in the TV world.

Setting up SQL Server 2008 Express with Profiler

Today I needed to use the SQL profiler which unfortunately is not included in the tools that are bundled with SQL Server Express. Then I found this article that shows you how to get it done with a command line entry.

Thank you Tony Sneed!

http://blog.tonysneed.com/2010/08/05/setting-up-sql-server-2008-express-with-profiler/

Updating GIT on Mac OSX Lion

Today I had an issues that was driving me crazy, so I thought I would share my experience and hopefully it helps someone. The scenario is that you want to update your local git install to the latest version but after running the installer you still see the previous version you had. For example, when I ran the following command I would get:

git --version
git version 1.7.5.4

This is the git version installed by XCode. I expected to see git version 1.7.7 which is the latest install (at time of this post) that I downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list.

So the first thing I tried to do is edit my .profile and .bash_profile files so I would add the correct path to use and after several attempts nothing.

You see the google installer installs git into /usr/local/git/bin/git but the version in use is /usr/bin/git which is the version installed by Xcode.

So after several attempts in editing all my .profile files that are read by the bash and attempting to put the installer's path into my $PATH variable I came into a helpful post that stated to edit the /etc/paths file and place the installer path first in the list like so:

/usr/local/git/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

I closed my terminal window and opened a new one ran the following and ....

git --version
git version 1.7.7

.... SUCCESS!!!!

Hopefully this helps someone having the same issue I had.