This book was recommend by Hal Helms and if it's good enough for Hal then it's good enough for me :) Although this book was first published in 1990 it is still jam packed with useful information. It talks about C++ and Smalltalk but the explanations are relevant to any OO capable language, I got the first edition (for £2 for AbeBooks!) so they may have updated this in the second edition. Read more »
This is a really simple example of getting and displaying data from a database using the ColdFusion of Wheels framework. I should point out that I am not an expert, this is just me learning! Read more »
This short video was shot with the new EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. It's amazing for a normal video camera let alone a DSLR! Read more »
I've just installed Windows Service Pack 3 for XP (pro) and now Apache will not start. Read more »
A quick jQuery tip. I wanted to add a class to any pre tags that didn't have a class attribute. Here's how to do it... Read more »
Brian Kotek wrote a sample application which illustrates extensive use of OO principles. I've taken Brian's Fusebox 4.1 Bookstore code and reworked it to use Fusebox 5.5 no XML. Read more »
Using cfproperty means you can still have a documented API and date type checking when you use the onMissingMethod technique for getters and setters. Read more »
Just a quick note that if you want to rewrite urls using an .htaccess file then you need to enable the rewrite module. Read more »
When you create CFCs you need to be careful that you don't expose more data than you need to. When you create a CFC you need to be aware of the different scopes available. This is an overview of the three types. Read more »
Using SQL subqueries can give your huge performance gain over manipulating recordsets with ColdFusion. Read more »
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