Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional for $10
January 30, 2009
In case you don't know (or don't check everyday) you may not have spotted that today's $10 ebook from Apress is: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional Read more »
"The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition" for $10
January 27, 2009
In case you don't know (or don't check everyday) you may not have spotted that today's $10 ebook from Apress is The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition Read more »
The Object-Oriented Thought Process
January 23, 2009
Hal Helms posted a link to an article on The Object-Oriented Thought Process via Twitter earlier. It's well worth a read so I thought I'd re-post it here (in case your not following Hal on Twitter). Read more »
Accessing the session scope from CFCs
January 23, 2009
I've just discovered a great post by Peter Bell about the issue of accessing the session scope in OO applications. This post doesn't add anything new (apart from some code samples) but it just clicked with me so thought I'd share. Read more »
Opinions Please : MSSQL or Oracle?
January 23, 2009
This is a cry for help from all you clever folks out there. Would you choose MSSQL Server or Oracle for a high traffic website? Read more »
Handy tip when editing the hosts file
January 20, 2009
If like me you get bored of firing up Notepad (or equivalent) and then having to browse to open up the hosts file, then you can simply create a shortcut to it, which automatically opens up the hosts file in Notepad. To do it: Read more »
Debugging an object's state
January 14, 2009
I'm currently working on a project that uses a series of classes that make heavy use of inheritance. What I wanted to be able to do was see all the public methods available to me without having to dig down through the inheritance tree. In addition, I wanted to know what the values available via accessors at any given moment were. I'm sure that someone must have already done this, but my 5 mins of searching didn't give me anything so I decided to write my own! Read more »
Using Paul Marcotte's Metro
January 13, 2009
I have been trying out Paul Marcotte's Metro. In Paul's words; "Metro is a library of components to support rapid development of applications that use ColdSpring and Transfer ORM." To me it is more than this. Read more »
Keyword Substitution with TortoiseSVN
January 07, 2009
A cool feature of Subversion is that you can get it to update the comments in your script automatically when you commit it. Whenever I (or anyone else) update this file and commit it, the header comment is updated. This can be particularly useful when working with other developers as you can see who made the last commit without having to do a lookup to subversion. So, how do you do it? Read more »
Book Review: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
January 05, 2009
So what am I, a ColdFusion developer, doing reading a PHP book? Well, I do work on PHP sites. However my main reason for reading this book is that ColdFusion and PHP have a lot in common. Both are web-orientated, loosely typed languages that started out as purely procedural, which have added object orientated features. There is a real lack of OOP books for the ColdFusion community and although this book is PHP based it is not that hard to translate the concepts to ColdFusion. Read more »