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UK's Top Web 2.0

2006-08-16T16:47:00.000+01:00

I thought I would mention this blog post on readwriteweb about top UK web 2.0 apps firstly to show we are doing it too and secondly so I can plug last.fm which is simply the best web 2.0 app currently in existence. Not only does last.fm provide a service that is truly innovative not just in its use of technology but also in its business model. It also works really well (which cannot be said of

Apache rewrite and case sensitivity

2006-08-03T17:24:00.000+01:00

I had a problem, some might say that I have many problems but this one I found a solution to, so it thought it would be a good plan to share it.It concerns case sensitivity when running Apache on unix and it comes in two parts.Firstly we are using apache rewrite to create friendly URLs and this works fine you type in www.myniftysite.com/blog/postaboutmonkeydust and this gets parsed through apache

Using caller scope getting 500 null error

2006-06-09T09:53:00.000+01:00

This post is pretty much like it says in the title, I was working on a project this week, where I was calling UDF's ( located in the Application.cfm ) from within a customtag. Because of the nature of customtags you can't reference things outside of the tag using the variables scope, so I was using the caller scope and this initially worked.However, for some reason I started to get 500 null

Slow SQL through Coldfusion

2006-06-06T11:57:00.000+01:00

06/06/06 no matter what the date format seems to be day of the devil and he's been messing with my code.On one of our customer sites there was a particular piece of functionality that was running incredibly slowly, like 90 seconds to render a page kind of slowly. So slowly in fact that I had time to go and make a cup of tea before the page rendered ( i don't fill the kettle to the top ;) ).Now

When is a select box not a select box

2005-01-11T11:17:00.000Z

I have been revisiting that old chestnut form validation and found out that a select box is not always a select box, I was doing some dynamic form building an needed to know the type of the form element to clear its value (its a long story) I started top play around and found that the typeof() function shows a select box as "undefined" and outputting the .type attribute displays one of two

Bullets do the Metro

2004-12-22T10:18:00.000Z

Last night the 21st December, Bullet Galloway did the Merto Club on oxford street, yes i know it sounds like a strip joint and to be fair it looks like on from the outside but rest assured it is your run of the mill grimey, live music venue with a slightly strange two tier stage and a cash only bar selling cans (just the way i like it). Moving swiftly on; the music, i haven't seen the bullets

tabs

2004-12-02T11:07:00.000Z

it tells me on Dictionary.com that tabs are :- 1. Informal. 1. A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant. 2. Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high. 2. A tabulator on a typewriter. 3. Computer Science. 1. A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in

backward browsers

2004-12-02T10:21:00.000Z

i have a dream one browser one world... but i live in reality with millions of people and loads of browsers none of which comply with w3c standards in totality; while i appreciate there right to freely express themselves, i curse them for the difficulties they cause me when blindly hacking away at my keyboard building sites. A new tool in my arsenal (my stash of web-dev weapons not the

CSS 2.1

2004-11-04T15:50:00.000Z

CSS has been around for yonks and I have been using for a similar period of time but having spent the last three years in an intranet environment (read ie only), I became lazy. So new job new standards and I have endeavored to re-educate myself about how it should be done. CSS 2.1 is a more workable implementation than CSS2 as it has dropped a number of aspects from the recommendation so there

Name and shame time ...

2004-11-01T17:05:00.000Z

knights b&w Originally uploaded by coldFlush.This picture taken in Paris for earlier this year seemed to be the perfect image to try out blogging using flickr.I was told about this photo blog/tagger/archive a few months ago but have only just set up an account. I like it it has a natty little flash app for organising you pics and has been very well thought out.Click on the photo to see the photo

Chuck would never have thought ....

2004-10-22T11:50:00.000+01:00

"... of going into politics if the aliens hadn't inflated his cat and sent him on a picnic with Marilyn Monroe." this is one of many genius (and genuine) plotlines featured on query letters i love and boy do i love 'em the comments nearly had me crying.

why UDF's almost passed my by

2004-10-19T17:45:00.000+01:00

I must admit i have never really used UDF's, mainly because i have never used CF5 in a production environment (my employer at the time went straight from CF4.5 to MX in one foul swoop). However, this week has changed all that i have finally found a place in my coding style for them. Previously I have been left wondering whether to use a CFC a Custom Tag or a UDF now that fog is beginning to

CFEclipse one week in

2004-10-15T16:16:00.000+01:00

I have been using CFEclipse for almost a week now and i really like it. There have been moments when i have thought to myself oh i wish i could do this or in can do that in dreamweaver but to be honest on the whole the functionality i use for coding is all there; some it just takes a little while to get your head around slighlty different terminology. Documentation is limited but i discovered

CFEclipse

2004-10-12T15:16:00.000+01:00

Looking for an open source editor i have been hearing a lot of positive noise about the eclipse project and the CFEclipse plug in i have just downloaded both this morning and will be having a go. thanks to andyjarrett.co.uk for a point in the right direction of resources ... here

Retro don't you just love it

2004-10-08T13:26:00.000+01:00

I have some across the web archive a number of time before but i always forget where it is, so more for me than anyone else i'm posting link here. for those who don't know it is an archive of past websites over the ages so you can view all the past crimes of you web developing heros ....

Documentation good to have but a pain to do ;)

2004-10-07T09:56:00.000+01:00

yes there is cfc explorer but it not the easiest thing to use and what you really need is some that is accessible inline with the code. This CFC as used by Fullasagoog.com makes this possible ... cheers Nathan Dintenfass.

Flex for free ...

2004-10-05T17:57:00.000+01:00

Flex ... you know that expensive little toy that MM is teasing us with til it wacked on a massive price tag ... well the real code monkey can now use it under a heavily scrutinised non-commercial licence http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/#ancni lovely ;)

Cultural change as well as technology change

2004-09-30T11:14:00.000+01:00

the headshift blog brought this little insight from dave wilcox to my attention this morning and it really struck a cord "... you need to deal with cultural change as well as technology change at the same time. If you try and bring technology in without commitment from the top, regard to working practices and so on, you'll get resistance... or lots of systems that don't work. And if you try and

How To: limit a results set from oracle

2004-09-29T14:06:00.000+01:00

ever wondered how to select rows n to n from an oracle query without using coldfusion startrow and maxrow ... i did SELECT * FROM ( SELECT hit_id, score, person_id, doc_date, title, type, khs_ref, row_number() over(ORDER BY (doc_date)DESC) rn FROM temp_hits WHERE person_id = #person_id# ORDER BY doc_date DESC ) WHERE rn BETWEEN 1 AND 10

BG @ the Carling Academy

2004-09-17T11:07:00.000+01:00

BulletGalloway are playing at the Carling Academy on the 14th October (eflyer), i like this venue it is by far the cleanest venue on London's toilet circuit and good noise too the only thing to make it heaven would be a good deal on beer ... oh i think they have that too

Macromedia Cental 1.5 released

2004-09-17T09:52:00.000+01:00

It's here, i haven't had a chance to play around much but there are some obvious improvements in the relase notes 1. Using FLash Player 7 (previous version was 6 and out of sync with the flash player). 2. Actionscipt 2.0 what does this mean, well it should be alot easier to port existing flash apps into Central (obviously requiring some tweaking). there are other but the other main one for me

nice searchy type things

2004-09-16T17:11:00.000+01:00

found out about these two today both are seacrh engine type things owned by amazon this one http://www.alexa.com/ allows you to search for a site, see it rankings, speed and who links to and loads other funky info and this one http://www.a9.com searches the web, amazon images and stuff enjoy.

This morning i have been mainly doing xml ...

2004-09-13T15:04:00.000+01:00

i don't know whether it just me but it seems that when using XmlSearch if your xpath is incorrect no error is raised, you just don't get anything returned