Mark Gregory

Recent Blog Comments By Mark Gregory

• The 11th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2018

  Posted on Jun 1, 2018 at 6:03 PM

  Problem arises Perhaps we can use Regex We have two problems... read more »

• Patterns Of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin Fowler

  Posted on Oct 17, 2017 at 7:09 PM

  Great review, sounds like a book worth picking up. You might enjoy this: https://www.amazon.com/SOA-Principles-Service-Thomas-Erl/dp/0132344823 It looks at things through the eyes of SOA. Changed the way I see coupling among many other things. Works out a very "throw the black box over the w... read more »

• Thinking About Tracking Requests And Errors Across Micro-Services

  Posted on Jul 24, 2015 at 12:22 AM

  Sounds like some SOA principles are organically bubbling their way in to your architectural thinking. Even your diagram reminds me of a high level Enterprise Service Bus diagram. Its kind of a heady read at times, but "SOA Principles of Service Design" by Thomas Erl was a real eye opener f... read more »

• It Walks Like A Duck, It Quacks Like A Duck, But It's A Donkey - The Problem Of Inappropriately DRY Code

  Posted on Mar 7, 2015 at 11:39 PM

  Amen! I have seen more sins committed in the name of DRY than any other development principle. I *might* have committed a few of those myself.... read more »

• The User Experience (UX) Of Having One Computer Monitor

  Posted on May 7, 2014 at 11:11 PM

  I have been working on a single 30" for the last couple years. But I would actually love to have more monitors. Problem is that the 40 pound speakers with 8" woofers right next to the monitor mean that any other monitors would be way too far off to the side of my vision to be very useful. ... read more »

• The Anatomy Of An INNER JOIN Query In SQL

  Posted on Aug 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM

  I do not like Join Clause spam. I do not like it Sam I am.... read more »

• A Sub-Class Should Not Access Private Variables In Its Super-Class

  Posted on Jun 6, 2013 at 3:50 PM

  Sounds like a good book, gonna have to pick it up. I have always thought that even though the super is related through inheritance, that I want to treat the super in a very black box way. This is why I get my panties in a bunch when told to use a global request collection inside my CFCs. If I haven'... read more »

• Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship By Robert C. Martin

  Posted on Jul 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM

  Same with me, it usually takes many passes and much refactoring to get code in to the kind of condition it needs to be in. If the next guy to pick up the code doesn't spend half a day cursing at me, I probably did well. I find the code generally gets much more concise with each pass, making it even ... read more »

• Making SOAP Web Service Requests With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on Nov 10, 2011 at 7:07 PM

  Once again, Ben Nadel's code and blog making my life easier!... read more »

• Phone-Based Realtime Authentication With ColdFusion, Twilio, And Pusher

  Posted on Mar 16, 2011 at 4:29 PM

  Wow, thanks for this! I just whipped up a demo, based on your work here, in a couple hours. You are making me look smarter than I really am!... read more »