Qasim Rasheed

We are looking to hire a medium level ColdFusion developer in our dynamic and challenging work environment. The position is full time, on-site position with SRA Global Health Sector. Here are the few highlights

• Strong knowledge of ColdFusion including experience with CFCs and custom tags
• Strong knowledge of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML and JavaScript
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Patterns
• Experience with frameworks such as MachII, Fusebox, ColdSpring is a big plus
• Must be a quick learner and able to take initiative

For further details and application process. please follow this link

http://sra.com/careers/search.php

and search for requisition number "21107BR"

or you can contact me at qasimrasheed AT gmail DOT com

I have not blogged for a while - combination of MBA classes, work issues and Ramadan have kept me quite busy. Anyways here is an interesting list of various cartoons related to IT and Programmers. Most of them are quite hilarious.

Comics Related to IT/Programmers

Enjoy

Edit:

I just realized that this is the original source of these cartoons

Stack Overflow

My site was down for almost two weeks as I wasn't aware that my hosting company decided to phase out the server where this site lives. I was in no position to complain as this site was hosted there for free :)

Anyways last weekend, I decided to move the site to a new host HostingAtoZ whose prices are very reasonable for a site like this which doesn't get a lot of traffic.

Everything went smooth except that this new host has setProfileString and getProfileString functions blocked which are used by the version of BlogCFC running this site. Anyways it took few modification to the code based on the direction here and everything seems to work well (at least for now).

I wrote cflog4j last year while working with an application at work that needed significant amount of logging. CFLog4j is essentially a ColdFusion based wrapper around the powerful Java library for logging i.e. log4j. I also wrote few Fusebox lexicons to log activity from the circuit files as that was the framework of choice at my last job. I haven't had a chance to improve and extend the original code for a while now. However Eric Knipp has been doing some excellent work with this project. Here are few blog posts related to this topic.

1. ColdFusion and Log4j
2. ColdFusion & Log4j Part 2 - Writing Logs to a Database
3. ColdFusion & Log4j Part 3 - Custom Attributes and Mapped Diagnostic Context

Thanks Eric!

Last week was my last at INDUS Corporation where I worked for almost 5 years on a government contract with NTP. I started my career at INDUS as a junior programmer and worked my way up the corporate ladder to become Project Manager/Technical Lead. I truly enjoyed my career at INDUS and made some good friends. However now I feel that it is my time for a new challenge and experience.

Today was my first day of orientation with SRA International where I will be working as Sr Software Architect Lead on a goverment contract with NIEHS. I am very excited about this new and challenging opportunity as I'll be leading a team of 5-6 developers. We will be providing support and maintenance for over 50 ColdFusion applications and developing new ones as needed.

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -- William James

As I mentioned during the session that I'll be releasing the code after the conference. It took me a while as some work related issues took precedence. Anyways without further delay, you can download the code from the following links

• Presentation
• ANT demo
• CFUnit demo
• Selenium demo
• CFPrototype Application with unit tests, selenium tests and the build files.

I appreciate the patience as several folks have emailed me to inquire about the code.

Folks who were unable to attend this year CFUnited conference, there is good news. Several presentations were recorded via Adobe Connect which IMHO is far better than power point. My presentation for titled "Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit and Selenium" can be find here. The entire list is available on CFUnited blog

Also I'll be releasing the code and presentation hopefully this weekend.

Thanks

I got home late last night after a long 5 hours drive to NC and then I slept like a baby for more than 12 hours.

My sessions went really well especially on Saturday as I wasn't expecting such a great attendance. Seeing 30-35 people in the class on the last day of conference (almost the last session) really made my day. This was my first time speaking at CFUnited so it was all a wonderful experience.

As mentioned during the session, I'll be posting the code and the slides on my blog later.

Thanks to TeraTech for putting together such a wonderful and exciting conference.

I am speaking at this year CFUnited on "Continuous Integration with ANT, SVN, CFUnit and Selenium". Charlie Arehart, who runs the ColdFusion Online Meetup group, gladly accepted my offer to do a short preview before the conference. You can find more details and RSVP here

http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/8130696/

As mentioned on the meetup site, this is not the full presentation and just a preview to give CFUnited attendees a chance to decide if they want to see this presentation at the conference.

The session starts at 6:00 PM (EST)

Next week Adobe is running a series of online seminars discussing various Adobe products and technologies. Topics include ColdFusion 8, Flex 3, BlazeDS, AIR etc. I have signed myself for few of these.

Adobe Developer Week 2008

Enjoy.

I have recently received an email from Liz Fredrick that my proposed talk has been approved for CFUnited 2008. I will speaking about setting up a Continuous Integration System using ANT, Subversion, CFUnit and Selenium. More details about CFUnited can be found on their website

CFUnited

Hope to see you in DC.