An Adobe AIR application that brings the ColdFusion 8 documentation to your desktop that is surprising small, easy to use, extremely fast, and built using the Ext JavaScript library.
Get a quick primer on Gears, the open source project by Google that aims to expose new modules and capabilities for the browser that provide general purpose building blocks for web applications to unlock the capabilities of the local machine in a safe manner.
Interested in Adobe AIR? Check out this brief new technologies demonstration I gave on Adobe AIR to my colleagues at Hamilton College.
Ever work with <cfdirectory> or <cfzip> and notice that they both ignore empty directories? This might make sense with some business logic, where an empty directory can (and should) be ignored. However, what if you want to ensure that empty directories are included in a zip file?
Read MoreIn this next installment of the series on using YUI, we are going to learn about YUI and the Dom. Generally speaking, scripting the DOM sucks. That might even be an understatement. Thankfully, we have innerHTML and a variety of tools provided by the YAHOO.util.Dom singleton class as well as the YAHOO.util.Element class.
Read MoreAs part of the ColdFusion User Group of Central NY CF Object Oriented Programming (OOP) series, I presented design patterns in ColdFusion. The objective of the presentation is to inform people about the basic design pattern principles that guide good OOP Programming.
Read MoreCreating a TinyURL using ColdFusion is super simple, but I thought I would share if you are wondering where to start.
Read MoreThe Yahoo User Interface is very extensive JavaScript library that enables a developer to easily create a next generation web application. Why am I using YUI? Well, as you know I like the Ext library, which was originally built as an extension to the YUI library. If you have worked with either Ext or YUI, you can pick up the other one pretty quickly.
Read MoreA conditional Insert is often used when inserting a record, and you want to make sure that the record doesn’t already exist. There are several ways to accomplish this task. First, you can rely on Primary Key or Unique constraints to ensure data integrity, which are best-practice and should be implemented. You can also add some logic to your SQL statements to prevent duplicate records.
Read MoreAt our user group meeting today we had ColdFusion Jeopardy. I think everyone had fun, and hopefully learned some stuff in the process. So, here’s your chance to give it a try…
Read MoreDid you recently upgrade SVN from 1.4x to 1.5x? If so, you may that you cannot merge changes because you will get an error similar to this:
Retrieval of mergeinfo unsupported
The reason for this is because Subversion 1.5 has started the implementation of a new feature called “Merge Tracking”, which means that Subversion is now tracking what changes have been merged where in your code - similar to how it tracks changes made to your files between revisions.
Read MoreOn Tuesday I have a short presentation on getting started with Subversion (SVN) to the local ColdFusion User Group of Central New York.
The presentation focused on the following key elements:
* Learn about the client-server relationship with SVN
* Learn about setting up a SVN server
* Learn about the actions involved with using SVN
* Learn about the tools and resources
Here is a link to a great cheat sheet (or reference card/sheet, whichever you prefer to call it):
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf
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