Author Archives: Don Quist

ImageInfo

Posted by on February 12, 2012 No comments

2 Super basic entities for image info, width, height, size, color model and such, over at https://github.com/sigmaprojects/cf-imageinfo. Below is is a simple demo – 1: Get the file info 2: get the image info 3: Blend 4: Throw 5: Done

Example Flickr API with oAuth in ColdFusion

Posted by on December 3, 2011 No comments

Just thought I would share how I implemented a (for now) a very simple Flickr API in ColdFusion, using the oAuth library from http://oauth.riaforge.org/.

Migration to WordPress Complete

Posted by on November 19, 2011 1 comment

Just migrated my blog to wordpress – actually using the ‘WordPress Appliance’ from http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress.  Didn’t come without a hiccup or two, especially when I tried to migrate the database to another server and change the table prefix. Now I just …

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Natural Language Date Parser updated

Posted by on November 14, 2011 No comments

Just wanted to note a small update to CF-NLDate https://github.com/sigmaprojects/CF-NLDate. Added support for strings like “last march”, “a few days ago”, “a couple weeks ago”, etc. *Edit* Also, included a test.cfm page showing example strings.

Natural Language Date Parser

Posted by on November 11, 2011 1 comment

Came across a situation where I needed to parse strings as dates, string likes “yesterday” “last week” and so on. First thought was to find an existing CF method for this, didn’t exist.  Next was to find a Java class… …

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Our server has finally been built.

Posted by on October 19, 2011 No comments

It took a long time, it came with a few hiccups, it also came with a couple injuries.  But it’s finally finished, our new VM host.

BaseORMService – Hibernate Criteria for “property not in”

Posted by on October 15, 2011 No comments

Just a little note for anyone else interested. To filter properties that are *not* in an array (i.e. don’t select from entity if foo is in bar) this is how its done in hibernate: And because ColdBox’s BaseORMService just proxies …

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Talk Bubbles in CSS

Posted by on September 24, 2011 No comments

Had to come up with some sort of chat / talk bubbles for messages back & forth.  This isn’t a new idea, I’ve seen this style around quite a bit but never paid much attention to it.   My most recent …

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New Server Build

Posted by on September 19, 2011 No comments

We finally decided on a parts list and ordered everything for our new small server http://www.sigmaprojects.org/projects/view/New-Server-Build.

Hibernate Criteria Queries are your friend

Posted by on September 16, 2011 No comments

I was working on a project where I needed to do a search feature, I then remembered seeing this in the ColdBox docs… Wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but it looked cool, so I gave it a try, and …

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