We recently had to work out how to display a random quote from a table in the database. Clearly we could have created a random number with CF and then simply retrieved that row or id from the database, but what if the rows didn’t have consecutive ID’s? We came up with this solution in […]
We just went live with 6 months worth of work and it has been really smooth considering the amount of changes. Aside from the stupid questions from userland we haven’t had any major issues. We did however experience some slow downs which we could attribute only to the AJAX suggester tools we had implemented in […]
Joshua Cyr over at www.joshuacyr.com has used Google’s community search engine stuff to create a search engine specifically for ColdFusion. You can go check it out over at www.cfhunt.com I think this is a great initiative and wanted to offer my 2c at helping him out. I thought it would be pretty cool to set […]
So we have just been away to New Caledonia for an extended weekend, more on that later but in the mean time I had to get this out. For international arrivals to Australia in Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) airport as you come to immigration and passport control there is a Duty Free section on the right. The […]
I was getting pretty unhappy with the whole question mark situation today whilst trying to debug a query. As a standard we use cfqueryparam all the time and if you get a large query with lots of variables then it can be a nightmare if you need to run it Query Analyzer. So I fiddled […]
We started to use Database servers on our local machines at work recently and we decided to go with SQL 2005. The production and development servers we have are all SQL 2000. Being workstations and laptops we decided that SQL Express would be the most appropriate version for the machines as it is stripped down […]
I have a new laptop, thats another story and I this means a reinstall of all my development environment for coldfusion mx 7 (cf7), cfeclipse, sql server etc. Adobe have just released the mystic updater used with the Flex 2 stuff (which BTW is frickin awesome!) taking ColdFusion up to version 7.0.2. I want also […]
I have recently changed places of work and was given the task of setting up version control, in this case Subversion (SVN) for our development team. I started learning about this a while ago through a number of avenues form the WebDU conference, and a number of ColdFusion mailing lists. Version control systems solve a […]
Being a tall bloke at 6 foot 5 inches I have a few nightmares on flying. As a general rule I cant get into standard economy seats without spreading my legs into the aisle and into my neighbours seat. If that happens I am never going to sleep. Its funny though that I drove an […]
