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Kaizen Headphones
Kaizen Headphones

I’m not just the Principal Architect, I’m also a user. Well, sort of. The company I work with, KaiNexus, is focused on bringing many of the Kaizen principals to the healthcare world. One of the side effects of working on software that streamlines process improvement is that I am constantly thinking of small things I can change to make an impact on my productivity. These things range from using a trackpad instead of a mouse, setting up hotkey macros and reusable code snippets to simple, non-computer related, solutions like the one outline here.

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Tags: kaizen, improvment
Building CFML Powered Flex Mobile Apps

For the September 2011 DFW CFML I presented on building mobile apps with Flex Mobile and using a CFML backend. This is a recording of that presentation.

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Tags: cfml, flex, mobile, iOS, android, blackberry, adobe, coldfusion, railo, openbd, flash builder, cfeclipse, coldfusion builder
Recording & Notes : Intro to Grails Part 1 - Getting Your Hands Dirty
Recording & Notes : Intro to Grails Part 1 - Getting Your Hands Dirty

A recording, diagrams and notes from my January 5th, 2011 presentation at the DFW2GUG meeting. 

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By Steve Good
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Tags: grails, dfw2gug, uml, video, presentation
Windows PowerShell & ColdFusion Setup
Windows PowerShell & ColdFusion Setup

I recently found the Windows PowerShell and can't stop using it.  I've setup a couple of helper functions to let me start CF from a simple command in the console.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: PowerShell, ColdFusion
8 Minute Grails Contact Manager
8 Minute Grails Contact Manager

On Friday I gave an Intro to Grails preso in which I built a contact manager application.  The presentation was 90 minutes long.  To demonstrate how much of that time was actually spent coding I whipped up this video where I build the same app but in 8 minutes.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: grails, groovy, methla.bz
Caption Contest
Caption Contest

So we had a camera roaming around the office a couple weeks ago and someone caught me in a great pose.  I'll give a $25 Amazon gift card to the person who comes up with the best caption by Friday, November the 19th at 12:00pm CST (GMT-6).  Submit your entries as a comment to this blog post.  Both image manipulation and plain text responses will be valid, but I think pictures speak louder than words.

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By Steve Good
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Workshop - Getting Started with Grails (December, 2010)
Workshop - Getting Started with Grails (December, 2010)

I'll be holding a final Getting Started with Grails workshop on December 11th, 2010 in Fort Worth, TX.  This is a great opportunity to learn about the amazing Grails framework for free!

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By Steve Good
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Workshop - Getting Started with Grails
Workshop - Getting Started with Grails

I'm holding a free (or donation) workshop this Saturday, 10/30/10, covering "Getting Started with Grails".  If you are in the area or a local wanting to learn more about Grails I encourage you to attend.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: grails, workshop
New Grails Plugin - Lorem Ipsum Generator
New Grails Plugin - Lorem Ipsum Generator

I'm in the middle of mocking out a new site and hate that I had to copy / paste "lorem ipsum" all over the place. This prompted me to create a plugin to do it for me.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: grails, lorem ipsum, plugin
Setting Up a Grails Development Environment in Windows
Setting Up a Grails Development Environment in Windows

My experience setting up a Grails development environment on Windows Vista & Windows 7.  Please feel free to use this as a complete guide to doing the same for your own environment.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: grails, sts, windows
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