Been quite recently as I have not really had much to blog about and in general been fairly busy at work and with kids activities.

Now we have the added challenge of getting our house ready and packed as we head off to the new place we will be calling home, Knoxville, TN.

I have accepted a Coldfusiion position there that will begin in early May. This will be a fantastic opportunity for me based on the fact I have not had much of a chance to work in a true team environment but that is all about to change.

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Been a little slow around here work has been busy but nothing worth blogging about.

Today I came across an interesting problem. I was creating the where clause of my SQL query in a function returning it to me in string format.

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So we had a small issue this week with our events not changing out on Monday due to the way the query was built to change the events on our home page.

So this morning I set off to correct this knowing I would have to do a big amount of the work outside of SQL. In the end it was really simple and works well.

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Today as we were putting our new home page under a microscope and fine tuning every thing getting ready for launch. There was one particular query that was causing us trouble. Most of the time reporting that 800 plus millisecond response times.

Here is the query that we were working with pretty simple really.

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Every Monday I am tasked with making the slides (powerpoint yuk) for our management meetings. The information consists of the visitors and page views on various section of our site over the past week including the difference plus or minus from the previous week.

Of our three sources of statistics collected for these reports we use the data from Google Analytics. After six months or so of doing this by hand on a weekly basis I decide to investigate parsing the xml file that is available from any view within analytics.

Off to Google I went to look to see if there was any one else that had started doing this. After a fair bit of searching it was evident that if people were doing this they were not sharing their methods. It may be that there is not much to share with Coldfusion making it so simple to accomplish.

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Yes, it's that time again Sunbelt Tourney time. My assignments for this year are 11 games over two days 4 U-15 and above and 7 U-11/U-12.

I am really looking forward to this weekend safe to say this is the best shape/weight I have been in for this tourney since I stared officiating it back in 2000.

Should be a good weekend the weather looks like its going to hold up and be really nice.

Good thing I sit at a desk that way on the following Monday I can just sit in my chair and not move.

After taking a position full time using Coldfusion back in August of 2008 and getting certified from Adobe I have been wanting to move my blog to Coldfusion. It just really didn't feel right blogging about Coldfusion with a PHP powered blog.

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o recently we implemented a comment system on our article, press releases and all that. Things were going well except it seems that we have a lot of clickers*. You know the people who click multiple times on every thing they click on.

*Note: On the web You only have to click once.

Well this was really turning into an epidemic of sorts as there would be several multiple posts on every article.

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