Inject ColdSpring into your Beans
June 30, 2009
I've recently discovered that ColdSpring has the ability to inject itself into any of the singletons that it manages. Read more »
cfspec and a bit of jquery
June 10, 2009
I've been using cfspec a lot to test my specification and I really like it. However when you run a suite of tests you can end up with a long page of results to scroll through, so I thought it would be nice to hide all the passes and just leave the fails by default. Then have a link which would show passes if I wanted to see them. Read more »
Replicating MySQL's LIMIT clause in ColdFusion
June 08, 2009
Replicating MySQL's LIMIT clause in ColdFusion Read more »
Remove the last occurrence of a character in a string
June 03, 2009
Remove the last occurrence of a character in a string by taking advantage of the Java String methods. Read more »
OO101 Part 3 Presentation
May 14, 2009
I'm doing an series of presentations on Object Orientated Programming (OOP) for Devon CFUG. This is the third instalment where we actually get to build something! Read more »
Flex Calling Methods of a Loaded Flex Movie
May 08, 2009
I'm currently building a Flex application that dynamically loads in another Flex application and calls it's methods. When I started building it that seemed like it should be a pretty straight forward thing to do (and maybe there is a better way!). Read more »
Scheduled MSSQL Express Backup
May 07, 2009
Microsoft SQL Server Express is a free slimmed down version of Microsoft SQL Server. One of the features missing from the Express edition is the backup facility, however you can still use the SQL commands. Read more »
Transfer ORM snippets
May 05, 2009
Just a quick post to say that I've added a Transfer ORM library of snippets to www.cfsnippets.org Read more »
JSON String to object in Flex
April 29, 2009
I'm storing JSON in my database. I then get it via a ColdFusion query and a RemoteObject call. The trouble I had was that Flex just treats the JSON string as a string. What I needed to be able to do was get Flex to evaluate the JSON string and convert it into an object. Read more »
Sharing a Flex project with a team
April 28, 2009
Recently I've been working on a Flex project with another developer. We use SVN and have been committing the entire Flex project to the repository. The problem with this is that any compiler/custom settings you have break as they are stored as part of the project. Read more »