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I have long been a fan of Firefox. But somewhere in between versions 2 and 3.5 it started behaving like a black-hole of resources, sucking up more and more memory, growing increasing sluggish. Not to mention taking forever to start up. So fickle user that I am, I have been trying out other …
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While experimenting with the Barbecue library last week, I put together a cfc for my testing. (You knew that was coming. It is the old developer story: read, test, build something, re-test). Anyway, I decided to post it for anyone else out there experimenting with Barbecue. The cfc can generate …
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Hardly a week goes by without seeing some forum post that either uses or recommends my pet peeve: the erroneous SELECT MAX(id) query. Mind you this is across the board, not just in CF. For some bizarre reason, this faulty technique never seems to die. And it REALLY should. There are so many …
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I was doing some debugging and came across the nifty java.sql.DatbaseMetaData class. It is an interface implemented by the various database drivers and it provides you with a ton of information about both your database and driver capabilities. While you can glean some of the information from …
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While reviewing some MS SQL 2005 metadata, I stumbled across something I never noticed before. It still supports the old ODBC "{fn}" functions. With the exception of CurDate and CurTime, there is probably not much need for them. (Nor do I find the syntax particularly appealing ...). But still, it …
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So I was having fun, trying to break things, and came across a lame excuse only a computer could get away with: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: memory exhausted. I can see it now: "Sorry Boss-man. No can do. Geez , my memory is exhausted. I need time to relax, recharge, …
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Just to get this out of the way: if you are looking for a CF wrapper for the Barbecue library, this is not the entry for you. If you are interested in the basics of using Barbecue, feel free to read on. Why write yet another entry on Barbecue? Well, I was recently reading about barcodes, for my …
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I was checking my "trials" email folder the other day and these messages gave me a chuckle. (That and the fact that I received a "Your ColdFusion 9 trial starts now" message, before my download had even finished!) Yes... I did download the ColdFusion 9 Trial previously. But it still made me laugh …
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Exceptions can be deceptive and loathsome creatures at times. Case in point, I was happily using createObject() to load an object from a java jar in my classpath. I then added a try/catch. So I could detect when the jar probably was not added to the CF classpath properly, and display a more …
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For some reason I always forget about the one good use for StructFind() . (Thank goodness for old blog entries). Though it seems even that use is gone in ColdFusion 9. Can anyone think of another one? <!--- Works in CF9, not CF8 ---> <cfoutput> #getSomeStructure()["dog"]# …
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