Display a random image from a subdirectory
July 08, 2008
Ever wanted to get a random image from a directory (including subfolders) and display it? Read more »
Free Version Control with Subversion e-book
July 07, 2008
I've just found out about the free Version Control with Subversion e-book. In case anyone else has missed it you can get it here: Read more »
OOP Terminology
July 06, 2008
Ben Nadel has recently started blogging about OOPhoto, as he attempts to learn OOP. I thought I'd start blogging about the terminology and concepts behind OOP as I learn it. Read more »
CFEclipse keyboard shortcuts
July 03, 2008
I've just seen a great post on Henke.ws called Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse. I recently compiled a list of CFEclipse keyboard shortcuts for my collegues so thought I'd share it here. Read more »
ColdFusion's in-built form validation
July 01, 2008
Does anyone actually use ColdFusion's in-built form validation? I don't mind the _cfformxyz suffixes it's the _date, _time, _range and _required suffixes which really bug me. If nobody uses this legacy feature any more can we just get rid of it? A setting in Application.cfc to turn it off would do! Read more »
jQuery - Getting Started
June 26, 2008
I recently did a presentation on jQuery for the Devon ColdFusion User Group. If anyone is interested I have put the slides on the Devon CFUG web site. Download the sample files Note: to view the presentation in full screen, click the arrow in the top right hand corner. Read more »
Using Identity insert
June 26, 2008
I was looking at Todd Sharp's getGeneratedKey function on UDFLib, which returns the identity (auto generated primary key) when you insert data into a database. It works by making use of the result attribute of cfquery, that was introduced in ColdFusion 8. This lead me to think about what ColdFusion was doing under the hood and how you could do it with older versions of ColdFusion. Read more »
Remove circuit.xml.cfm from Model and View circuits
June 25, 2008
I recently did a talk on Fusebox 5.5 at Devon CFUG and mentioned that you get rid of all those pesky circuit.xml.cfm files from the Model and View directories, and found that it isn't widely known that you can do this. Read more »
Search for % sign in SQL.
June 25, 2008
MS SQL server uses the percentage sign (%) as a wildcard when you use the like operator. So what if you want to search for the percentage sign? Read more »