Sean Corfield talk for Devon CFUG
August 28, 2008
Sean Corfield has posted on his blog that he'll be doing a talk on Design Patterns for Devon CFUG on Monday, September 29th. Read more »
Setting up a Virtual Host with Apache
August 28, 2008
This is a follow up to my ColdFusion 8 and Apache on Windows XP post, showing how to set up multiple sites on your local server. Read more »
DataMgr Overview
August 22, 2008
Steve Bryant was kind enough to present DataMgr to Devon CFUG this week. I thought I'd try and do Steve's presentation justice by giving a quick overview of what was covered and the areas/features that got the most attention. This is not meant to be an exhaustive feature list of what DataMgr can do it is just the features that appealed most to our group. Read more »
String Concatenation performance test
August 19, 2008
I recently needed to some string concatenation with some large strings, which is notoriously slow in ColdFusion, so I thought I run some tests to compare performance of various ways to do it. Read more »
XMLSearch supports the contains string function of XPath
August 18, 2008
ColdFusion 8 added improved support XPath expressions. I've just discovered that you can now use the contains string function of XPath with XmlSearch! Read more »
Ben Nadel's POI Utility
August 13, 2008
I decided to try out Ben Nadel's POI Utility to import an Excel spreadsheet with 4000+ rows and 20+ columns. I couldn't be bothered to type them all the columns in so I made a simple modification to the script and now it lists all the columns for me. Read more »
Security Compromised by The Yahoo Toolbar
August 12, 2008
If you or your clients use The Alexa or Yahoo toolbars then you might be compromising the security of their website without knowing it. Unlike search engines which crawl the web by following links, the toolbars record the pages that you visit. This is all well and good (if you don't mind your surfing habits being recorded) but what happens if you visit a private page? Well, that information is still sent to Alexa and shows up in their search results. Read more »
Trapping missing Fuseactions in Fusebox no XML
August 11, 2008
Fusebox does have in-built error handlers, which handle invalid fuses or circuits. If you've ever used them you'll know that they are not particularly user friendly. You could style the errorhandlers, which is not ideal as multiple sites could share the core files. I prefer to trap the exception in Application.cfc. Read more »
OOP Terminology : Part III
August 11, 2008
An introduction to interfaces, concrete, abstract, derived and base classes. Read more »
Learn Flex in a Week
August 07, 2008
Adobe have just added a Flex video training course to the Adobe Developer Connection site. Read more »