Author Archives: Daniel Roop

Mac OS X Java

So I got the great idea yesturday to install Coldfusion MX 7 on my Intel Mac to try out some ideas. I found out that Adobe does not currently support Coldfusion MX on the intel Mac. They do redirect you … Continue reading

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current_page?

This weekend I found myself caught in a love/hate relationship with a certain method in rails. I love this method because it uses some sort of mind control to know exactly when to show a link and when to show … Continue reading

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TallyHoh OpenID

I was going through my feeds this morning on Tallyhoh and I came across Adam Fortuna’s post on Problems with OpenID?. He was discussing a post done over at Factory City a site I hadn’t seen before. His article, Problems … Continue reading

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Resful Resources

Over the last two weeks Tyler and I have been coding like mad men, after work to get closer to a feature complete TallyHoh beta. One of annoying things I came across when I was making the transition to Resful … Continue reading

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Domain Restructure Complete

Hello and welcome to the new and improved danielroop.com/blog. I have finished all of my shuffling as best I can tell, and now it is just time for some posting goodness. As I said in the previous post, this is … Continue reading

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Domain Restructure

I was looking at my blogs over the last few days, which didn’t take long since there are exactly two. This one, and my baby blog. I realized that this blog has been left somewhat stagnant lately, and it is … Continue reading

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Java to Coldfusion HashMap

As some of you know I do web application development. The languages of choice for my current employer is coldfusion and java with some flex thrown in there for good measure. Last Friday I began experience a very odd bug … Continue reading

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The Reason why YouTube is Awesome

I came across this video this morning on reddit.com. To me it is the reason why YouTube is so great. It allows the up and coming director, or casual movie maker to upload very fun content to niche markets. I … Continue reading

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Corporate Copyright

Tonight copyright law caught up with me for the first time. Jeni and I, are having a baby as most of you know. As is the case with most babies our son to be, Brendan, will be needing a room … Continue reading

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Firefly MMO

I was looking through news on reddit.com, a social news website, and a headline caught my attention. The article was about the return of Firefly. For those who don’t know Firefly was a great television show that aired on Fox … Continue reading

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