alanwilliamson
Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Cloud expert, Author, Speaker, and Internet Guru (follow Twitter / identi.ca)
JQuery Lined TextArea plugin
A simple JQuery Plugin that adds line numbers to a standard HTML TextArea box
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
CFML Documentation core to Open BlueDragon
A revolution has begun, with the introduction of live CFML (JavaDoc like) documentation for OpenBD functions and tags. Never again, will you forget or misuse a function.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Why get involved with open source?
I was recently interviewed, with many others, on my views on open source and why i got involved. A fascinating review of what many different people feel and how they react.
Friday, 3 October 2008
java.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()
After chasing down a bizarre class exception, that was very little to do with the exception being thrown, Grizzly once more roars into success.
Monday, 23 June 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Nitai
We would like to introduce you to a new member of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, Nitai.
Monday, 26 May 2008
An 'open source' model airline - Ryanair
Ever wondered how Ryanair can fly people for free and still turn a profit? O'Leary, takes the open source software model and applies it to the skies. A genius or a mad man? You decide.
Monday, 26 May 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Andy Wu
In the last of our interviews with the BlueDragon Steering Committee, I am proud to present, the man that probably knows the code base the best, Andy Wu.
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Matt Woodward
We are coming to the end of our series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon steering committee. I am proud to introduce Matt Woodard.
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Alan Williamson
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce myself! The Steering Committee got the opportunity to hit me with questions. Discover what was on their minds
Monday, 21 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Jordan Michaels
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce Jordan Michaels to you.
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Adam Haskell
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce Adam Haskell to you
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Mark Drew
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce Mark Drew to you.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Sean Corfield
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce Sean Corfield to you.
Monday, 14 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Mike Brunt
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce Mike Brunt to you.
Friday, 11 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Peter Amiri
In our continuing series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, it is my honor to introduce you to Peter Amiri.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - Andy Allan
In the first of our series of interviews with the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee, I would like to introduce you to Andy Allan. Learn what makes him tick - CFML'ly speaking!
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Introducing the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee
It is my honor to announce the first ever Open BlueDragon Steering Committee. Meet the people that will be shaping and mentoring the next chapter in the CFML history books.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List Announced
The Open BlueDragon Steering Committee is proud to announce the creation of a new public list for all discussions regarding the BlueDragon GPL open source Java CFML engine.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Open Source BlueDragon, what does it mean for you?
With the announcement that we are taking BlueDragon J2EE and moving to an open source GPL license, what does this really mean for the CFML developer, the CFML community and the overall web scripting market?
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
About Alan Williamson
Alan Williamson is the Technology Evanaglist with SpikeSource. He is also the original architect behind BlueDragon (a Java based CFML engine) and Blog-City (a blogging community built using BlueDragon). He writes, he talks, he codes!
Saturday, 10 May 2003

