by danwatt | Nov 28, 2017 | SQL
There have been a handful of times over the last few years where I have needed to take time series data, and group the runs of data together to determine when a certain value changed, and how long it stayed that way. Every time I do this, I have to go back and figure...
by danwatt | Nov 10, 2017 | Work @ Dave Ramsey
One final post from the old company blog, from March, 2011. A couple of us are working on a new project that involves Salesforce CRM. We recently came upon a few technical challenges related to our need to keep a subset of the data stored in the cloud in-sync with our...
by danwatt | Nov 10, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
One more from the archives of the company dev blog, this time from August 2011. We have been gradually moving off of ColdFusion over the last several years, but maybe there is something in here that might be useful for someone. We have been using ColdFusion 9 for a...
by danwatt | Nov 3, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
This is another article from the retired company blog. This one is from September, 2011. I have been developing ColdFusion on and off for about 10 years, and one topic that has been controversial the entire time is CFScript. The arguments go back and forth:...
by danwatt | Nov 1, 2017 | Cold Fusion, Work @ Dave Ramsey
Im continuing to clear out articles from the retired company development team blog. This one, was instrumental in getting me connected with one of my first big side work projects, which evolved into a two year project that helped us retire our mortgage. From August...
by danwatt | Oct 30, 2017 | Work @ Dave Ramsey
Restored using the Wayback machine from: https://www.developwithpurpose.com/digital-lumberjack/ When we had our development team blog, our content team would edit our posts. This one was very different before it went in to copy editing, I had embellished the...
by danwatt | Oct 24, 2017 | Work @ Dave Ramsey
Here is another post revived from the Wayback machine from our (discontinued) company blog from December 2011. One of the great things about working for Dave Ramsey at the Lampo Group is that they treat all team members equally well. This is especially true of the Web...
by danwatt | Oct 20, 2017 | Programming, Work @ Dave Ramsey
I used to blog periodically on my company’s blog. Earlier this year, the blog was taken down, and I needed to reference something I posted from 2012. I’ve restored the post using the Wayback machine here. The information is a little dated, but maybe it...
by danwatt | Jun 18, 2017 | Programming
Gradle 4.0 is out. It is fast, much faster than Maven. I tried it out on 3 projects that I maintain, and all of them saw build times cut in half (longest one was 86 seconds -> 40 seconds). cukes-rest – I am really late the to the Cucumber / Gherkin party, and...
by danwatt | Jun 17, 2017 | Programming
TL:DR; takeaways: These seem very obvious, but with rushed deadlines, and “it works well enough”, these things are sometimes overlooked. Use the right data type for the job. If the documentation says VARCHAR when the values are always integers, maybe you...
