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 MoreI recently worked on a project that required obtaining the resolution of photograph. The approach I used was to limit the photographs to Jpeg format images only, which I could then use the new imageGetEXIFMetada() function in ColdFusion 8 to obtain the X-Resolution and Y-Resolution tags. Here is a quick summary of some of my findings and problems.
Read More-
