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A few days ago on CF-Talk Greg Morphis asked for a method to find the cheapest combination of phone plans that satisfy a customer's requirements for the number of lines being used and the amount of minutes to share between the plans. At first, I thought the answer could be derived …
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I think the bane of development planning can be those conversations where you personify your framework and start debating about what a service should "know", whose "job" a particular operation is, or what the handler should "care" about. This is one of those sort of questions, but I'll …
I found a very interesting behavior today with SQL Server 2000 SP4 that I'm most certain is a bug. I Googled for a while and found a couple old threads bringing up similar issues but they were without confirmation nor resolution. My actual use case was fairly complicated and confusing. …
Here's another UDF I was tinkering with last week. I wanted to be able to count all of the numbers that divided evenly into a given integer. I couldn't find a ColdFusion implementation, so after getting some advice from Stack Overflow I created my own.
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Ahh... the quintessential math problem-- finding prime numbers. Last week while tinkering with a math challenge I needed to find all of the primes up to a given number. There was a version on cflib.org , but I thought I could do it in less code, so I dug in myself.
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I had one of those (all-too common) moments today that I spent scratching my head at a page of SQL code that was failing for no apparent reason. What's worse is the EXACT same code worked in another window. After a good deal of poking and prodding I figured out what was wrong and it …
This Wednesday Adobe's Kevin Hoyt spoke in Kansas City to a captive audience of about 75 people including ColdFusion programmers, HTML/CSS builders, and designers. The meeting was great. It also included Jack Stack BBQ and shwag from Uhlig, Emfluence, and Tek Systems to name a few. …
If you live in or around Kansas City, Kevin Hoyt is coming to speak about ColdFusion , Bolt , Flex , and Flash Catalyst this Wednesday. I am pretty excited. First of all, to receive some local attention from Adobe. Secondly, to get to hear Kevin (Adobe Platform Evangalist). Thirdly, …
Flex 4 (Gumbo) is now in Beta and new training tutorials are available from Trilemetry . There a handful of new articles you can read on Adobe's site and follow along with to learn Flex 4 with ColdFusion!
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Today I offer you a question of preference. Should optional method parameters be defaulted to blank and assumed to exist, or should they only be defined if you intend to use them? In the name of code reusability I will find myself writing generic service methods such as …
