G'day: I finally relented on the Steam nagging screen, and am writing a review of Starfield, which I have been playing pretty much daily since it was released. I just noticed I'm writing an essay rather than a review, so figured I'll "own" it and post it here as well as give it to Steam/Bethesda. Would you recommend this game other players? Yes. There's some good gameplay in this, but around the edges. I wish the rating system on this had at least a "maybe" option as well as "yes" and "no". this is a 6/10 game (I'd rank Skyrim and Fallout 4 as 10/10 games, to compare). The main quest is steril ..read more

G'day: The other day on the CMFL Slack channel, Nick Petrie asked: Anyone know of a native or plugin-based solution to pretty-formatting XML for display on the page? I'd like to output the XML nested this: I'll use a simplified example> we wanna render this: <aaa><bbb ccc="ddd"><eee/></bbb></aaa> Like this: <aaa> <bbb ccc="ddd"> <eee/> </bbb> </aaa There's no native CFML way of doing this, but I figured "this is a solved problem: there'll be an easy way to do it in Java". I googled java prettier xml, and the first ..read more

G'day Chortle: I'm new to cf development and recently joined the cfml slack community. I noticed some curmudgeonly posts from this fella at first and didn't think anything of it... I'm now realizing that he is an a**h*** to people all the time. For example, there was a question posted today that currently has 14 replies. A few of them are from others trying to answer OP's question; 7 are this guy explaining how stupid of a question it is. What gives? I'm sure he's a knowledgeable and respected developer, but the pedantry is off the charts! DJgrassyknoll on Reddit Guilty as charged I suppose ..read more

G'day: I'm back on the case working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part five of this series, after the first four: PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation and pre-requisites (and not actually any Symfony!) PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 2: creating a controller (eventually) PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 3: doing some ORM / DB config PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 4: not really about Symfony, this one The page I'm starting on is Building the U ..read more

Howdy partner: Well here's something interesting (well: to me, anyhow). I will be attending the Into the Box conference in Houston, TX in May (17th - 19th). This has come about due to a very kind gesture from Luis / Ortus Solutions. Thank-you so much for this! I know nothing about Houston - I have been through the airport on the way to somewhere else a coupla times, and that's it - so am getting there a coupla days early to have a look around and make sure the local craft beer bars are patronised. The schedule of Into the Box itself looks pretty good too, and cover a lot of bases other than ju ..read more

G'day: This is a follow on from the previous two articles: Changing where I home my source code dramatically speeds up my Windows / WSL2 / Docker environment Changing my WSL Bash prompt to include my current Git branch All that is working well, but I had a wee problem with switching my Windows Terminal config from starting Git Bash shells to do the equivalent with directly running a Bash shell on my WSL Ubuntu filesystem. For Git Bash, I have profiles set up like this: { "commandline": "C:\\apps\\Git\\git-bash.exe", "guid": "{be9a184b-1c89-4ac5-88da-3ef93cd5ec98}", "hidden": fal ..read more

G'day: Note: there's no real original research / thinking in this. it's just the result of me googling stuff, and arriving at a result. I'm writing it mostly so I have a record of it. Yesterday I shifted my source code directories from my Windows file system (eg: C:\src\myapp) to using the WSL file system (eg: ~/src/myapp). See Changing where I home my source code dramatically speeds up my Windows / WSL2 / Docker environment. Up until now I'd been doing my dev from C:, my Docker stuff in WSL, and my Git carry-on from Git Bash. Given my files are in the WSL file system now, and I have Git insta ..read more

G'day: This is more an admission of "not initially thinking things through" on my part, but the outcome has helped me a lot, so in case there are others out there who don't think things through, maybe this will be helpful to them as well. Or people can just point and laugh at me for being so thick. Either way, perhaps someone will get something out of this. My dev environment is Windows (nono, that's not the "not thinking things through" bit, just behave please). All my applications run in Docker containers, and the way I get the code into the container during dev is via a volume from my file ..read more

G'day: Once again I'm gonna continue working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part four of this series, after the first three: PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation and pre-requisites (and not actually any Symfony!) PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 2: creating a controller (eventually) PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 3: doing some ORM / DB config The page I'm starting on is Setting up an Admin Backend, which sounds very situation-specific to me (so: not very portable knowledge ..read more

G'day: Today I'm gonna continue working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part 3 of this series, after the first two: PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation and pre-requisites (and not actually any Symfony!) PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 2: creating a controller (eventually) I also had a brief interlude yesterday whilst I messed around with the DB connnection driver the app was using.: Symfony / Doctrine / DBAL: convincing/configuring it to use a PrimaryReadReplicaConnection connection. This was not part of ..read more