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Top 5 Tips for Staying Awake
It’s been my observation that we web developers are a fairly nocturnal bunch. We beaver away long into the night, building the next big web app, trying to meet client deadlines, or fiddling with some new technique or technology that has us all excited.
Makes me wonder how much of the sum output of our industry happens in the middle of the night, and what is it that sustains us through those wee small hours? Is it fueled by the pure nervous energy of obsessive compulsion, or are there concrete things you can do to boost your performance beyond the physical impulse to sleep?
For me, it’s both — part obsessiveness, and part practical routine — it’s simply quieter in the middle of the night, with no phone calls and fewer distractions, and that really helps me to stay focused.
But there are also a number of simple, practical things I do to help me stay on form. I can only speak from personal experience, but with that proviso, I present this short list of tips I use to cope with sleep deprivation.
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Drink a lot of coffee
Although the short-term buzz you get from coffee is largely psychosomatic, the effect over several hours is …
The Week In ColdFusion: June 25-July 1: An unconference, a new book and a boatload of code
Last week there were lots of announcements and the odd bit of controversy in the ‘ol CFML blogosphere… this week, not so much. However, I do have some tasty code posts for you and some even tastier open source news – bon appetit!
Code
- Interested in learning object-oriented programming? Join Ben Nadel as he builds a photo gallery application using OO techniques – and knowing Ben’s hands-on learn-as-you-go blogging style, this will be comprehensive!
- Nick Tong shares a code snippet to export the contents of a table into a CSV file, using the Java StringBuffer
- Rupesh Kumar from Adobe’s engineering team in India discusses the “EvalAtPrint’ attribute in the CFDocumentItem tag, new in CF 8.0.1
- Troy Pullis shares some helpful checks to test your code’s vulnerability to XSS (cross site scripting) attacks (hat tip to Steve Bryant)
- Nic Tunney posts his top 6 underused ColdFusion functions (hat tip to Mike Henke) – ListQualify() anyone?
Coding, debugging and testing tools is an important topic that all too often gets overlooked. The latest Fusion Authority Quarterly Report is all about development environments, and has an excellent set of articles on setting up and using Subversion, as well as the various …
