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 …
Full Hibernate class names for ormtype property
Figured I would share a little tidbit I found the other day. While working with a MySQL database, I kept having to define boolean property types as ormtype=int in my cfc’s, then later changing the column in the database to …
How I Got Started in ColdFusion
Following lead from Steve Bryant’s post, I figured I should post my story as well, though it’s not as interesting as others start, at all. While I was in high school, my friend’s uncle was looking for someone to do …
Redmine API with ColdFusion
A project I’m working on required a quick & easy way to add users to Redmine through the API, at first I thought it would be pretty simple, which it was, but it did give me a little headache. From …
Mike Henke’s CFML-in-100-minutes
If you haven’t heard of Mike Henke’s CFML-in-100-minutes, go and check it out now. It’s really a great tutorial that everyone should be contributing to. Last week he announced a very generous contest to Contribute & Win a chance for …
Flot is awesome
I’ve read about it and heard people talking about it, and since cfchart must be the most annoying cftag I’ve ever dealt with, yesterday I tried flot out for something I’ve been logging for a while. Before anyone questions this; …
Downtime
Had some downtime last night and today, as I was building new OpenWrt firmware images for my router. I heard that extroot was finally working in trunk (and not that annoying overlay system either). While yes, extroot mounted as the …
Ant4CF == Timesaver
I do a lot of development work, and a lot of the time-eating aspect of it used to be managing code (commiting, exporting, pushing to staging, production, etc), it was really an annoyance. Thankfully a few people from #coldfusion let …
CFZip Doesn’t support gz!?
While working on a personal project dealing with ipblock lists, it came time to cfhttp download a compressed (gz) file, figured I could just decrompress it with cfzip, but lo and behold, ACF doesn’t support it. (Though, I heard ralio …
VPN Hooray!
A happier update to my previous VPN horror, with a lot of help from krzie and Bushmills on the #openvpn channel, they were able to track down the issue. As it turns out, an entry in my ccd client, iroute …